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Economics

How to Stop the BRICS Nations from Abandoning the Dollar

13th January 2025 Patrick Barron 0

The US government is aghast that there is a new grouping of nations that seeks to form an alternative to the US trade bloc and trade settlement system that uses the dollar. These nations have [more…]

America

Will the Donald, Elon, and Vivek Succeed?

30th December 2024 Patrick Barron 0

In a previous post titled “Why Does Government Always Make the Same Economic Mistakes?” I quoted Judicial Watch CEO Tom Fitton. Regarding another matter he said that the way to predict future behavior is to [more…]

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Book Review: The Age of Debt Bubbles by Max Rangeley

5th December 2024 Patrick Barron 0

In this series of “Professional Practice in Governance and Professional Organizations” by Springer Nature, the most prestigious academic publisher in Europe if not the world, editor Max Rangeley has enlisted actual practitioners to explain how [more…]

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Why Does Government Always Make the Same Economic Mistakes?

31st October 2024 Patrick Barron 0

Most economic analysts predict that the US is about to enter into a cyclical recession. Even Austrian School economists, like me, agree. The big question is “What will government do?”. Will it finally stop its [more…]

Economics

A Primer on Understanding Austrian Monetary Theory

5th September 2024 Patrick Barron 0

The above title would make one believe that what follows will be very long and very difficult to learn, but it is not. In this short article I will explain the relationship among four metrics: [more…]

Economics

Cure for Cancer

5th August 2024 Patrick Barron 0

To: Professor Don Boudreaux, George Mason University From: Patrick Barron Date: July 21, 2024   Dear Don, I read your latest Café Hayek post “On Making the Case for Free Trade” in which you respond [more…]

Economics

Let’s stop kidding ourselves

22nd April 2024 Emile Woolf 0

Columnists write glibly about the “cost-of-living crisis” as if it were an affliction visited upon our unsuspecting community and that, as usual, it is the duty of government to cure it. The fact that the [more…]

Economics

Thinking Properly About Public Welfare

18th April 2024 Patrick Barron 0

The debate over publicly funded welfare can be solved very quickly. There is constant demand for more welfare: more money for longer periods of time for those out of work, more money for the handicapped [more…]

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The Case for Abolishing Regulatory Agencies

4th April 2024 Patrick Barron 0

Regulatory agencies are not needed and actually retard whatever good they are suppose to prevent or mitigate. I’ll give just three quick examples. The Center for Disease Control (CDC)  The underlying rationale for the CDC [more…]

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