1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) As pointed out by Alexander Fink, three features in particular render the Hanse especially intractable for scholars who wish to fit it into models of state governance or jurisdictional prerogative. First, the Hanse never had any power to tax. In…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (163+ words) David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 as a body more elite than the CFR, and it placed its people in office. Rothbard runs through the Carter appointments post by post, from Brzezinski and Vance to Volcker at the Fed,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (154+ words) After Arbenz nationalized uncultivated United Fruit holdings, Eisenhower assigned the CIA a counter-revolution. Rothbard maps the interlocking boards behind it—Sullivan and Cromwell, the Schroder bank, International Railways of Central America—and the Council on Foreign Relations study group whose…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (166+ words) Blocked in China by Russia and a Belgian syndicate, an American banking consortium pressed Washington toward a harder Asian line. Rothbard follows the American China Development Company through the Boxer Rebellion to Theodore Roosevelt egging Japan on to attack Russia…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (147+ words) Justin Raimondo places the essay in Rothbard’s career, showing how methodological individualism and the Austrian analysis of banking combine into a history of the American elite. He draws out the Nock, Flynn, and Chodorov insight at its center: the biggest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (95+ words) The U.S. military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (271+ words) A smaller but more theoretically ambitious group looked past the states to a national inconvertible currency. Rothbard examines their schemes in detail: suspension of specie payments by the Bank of the United States, permanent abandonment of redemption, and the elaborate…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (269+ words) Because banks were chartered by the states, the monetary fight was fought mainly in state legislatures, and Rothbard follows it across the Union. Proposals ranged from the modest—permitting failing banks to suspend specie payment while continuing to operate—to…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (108+ words) The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court The…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (232+ words) On Thursday, November 12, Drs. Joseph Salerno and Patrick Newman will host a Member-only, online seminar focused on their new book, Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist. This book is a landmark contribution to the history of the Austrian…...