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Tom Woods & the New Deal
Tom Woods will be teaching a class on the New Deal, through the Mises Academy. Continue reading
Some Links
Discussion points for 15 April 2010. Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged anthropogenic, deal, Depression, global, Great, iraq, Krugman, new, Politics, Roosevelt, Samuelson, War, warming
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The Fake History of the Depression
Economist Robert Murphy on the Great Depression, and his new book. Continue reading
Hoover’s response to the October 1929 crash
After one has an understanding of the true scale of Hoover’s fiscal spending figures one can deduct that if government spending did not work during the first three years of the 1930s, there is no reason that it should have worked during the next four, either. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 1929, Bailout, Crash, deal, Depression, Federal, Government, Great, Herbert, Hoover, intervention, new, October, Reserve
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A New Perspective on Roosevelt’s Recession of 1937
From the essay “The Dangerous “Lessons” of 1937. Roosevelt’s Recession of 1937 may be more relevant to the current financial situation in the United States than the Crash of 1929. This is because we may be headed in the same direction. Continue reading
Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Much of the world finds itself facing spiraling unemployment. Economists Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway disprove Keynesian theories on employment in a brilliant book first published in 1993, by the Independent Institute. Vedder and Gallaway focus their intentions on the true cause of unemployment—wage rigidity as a result of government intervention in the free market. Continue reading
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Tagged book, deal, Gallaway, Government, intervention, natural, new, Out, rate, review, Unemployment, Vedder, Work
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