It’s been almost two months since I finished reading Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action cover-to-cover for the first time. I am thankful for the interval between then an now: It has allowed me to further appreciate his genius. It has given me time to appreciate the myriad of ways, consciously and unconsciously, that he has affected…
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God only knows the extent to which I hate Star Wars, so I am not even sure why (outside of engaging in eutrapalia) I made that allusion in the title… Shrug. On Hans-Hermann Hoppe: the great Michael Rectenwald just shared this on FB as he was pouring over Hoppe’s essay, “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis”:…
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During Lent, we Catholics are instructed not to say the “A-word”, i.e. “alleluia”. It’s use is suspended until Easter. In the worlds of politics, economics, and finance, agents this season are leery of using the “I-word” namely “inflation” unless it is a referent to a phenomenon immediately dismissed as unworthy of concern. After all, the…
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The “Lost Decade” as it is called in Japan describes the languishing economy of the country over–what is in reality–twenty years or so of artificially low, and even negative, interest rates. The economic ramifications are clear: A Japanese central banking policy that incentivizes consumption, wild speculation, and finger-crossing leaves capital markets starved, innovation stagnant, and…
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Abstract for my paper which I presented at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, 2019: “Fast Balls and Fast Bulbs: The Cause of Reckless Yet Rational Gambling Speculation on American Baseball 1917-1919 and Dutch Tulips 1636-1637” Mr. Athanasius (Gary) Richied Focus: A historical and economic analysis of the marked similarities extant between rampant wagering on baseball and…
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