Not For Everyone
By / March 6, 2022A video discussion between Austin Suggs, a student at the Moody Bible Institute, and Fr. Anthony Mourad of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Great for a Sunday. Suggs, for such a young
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The Eastern Church, Aquinas, and Morality
By / March 4, 2022Matt Fradd, of Pints with Aquinas, had a conversation with Dr. Matthew Minerd. From Minerd’s profile page: All of us have lots of identities, set up in a kind of hierarchy. For my part, I
Inflation and Cost Control|Ludwig von Mises
By / March 3, 20221. The Futility of Price Control Under socialism production is totally directed by the orders of the central board of production management. The entire nation is an “industrial army” (a term used by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto) and each resident is bound to follow his superior’s orders. Everybody has to contribute his share […]
Keep United States Out of War
By / March 1, 2022Occasions in Ukraine are happening very quickly, and if I tried to predict what will take place there, my prediction would soon be surpassed by events. But something is particular. We require to comprehend the background of the crisis, and we also need to keep in mind the standard principles that ought to assist American […]
My Relationship with Gary North
By / February 28, 2022I am sorry to have to report the death of another old friend, Gary North, who passed away a few days after his eightieth birthday. – David Gordon I joined Gary North’s community many years ago, a few years before the birth of bionic mosquito (which now is itself approaching twelve years). He was […]
Cold War Thinking Isn’t Working
By / February 25, 2022With Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the corporate press has actually grown screeching in its calls for penalizing Russia with drastic sanctions, supplying Ukraine with increased military aid, and diplomatically isolating the Eurasian power as much as possible. The two-minutes hate against Russia has actually been cranked up to […]
FDR Wasn’t the Only One Who Stated War on Gold to Conserve Paper Money
By / February 24, 2022Desperate times require desperate procedures. Or high-handed guys do high-handed things when it concerns propping up fiat money whose value is circling the drain. The Financial Times headline screams, “Turkey to Target ‘Under the Mattress’ Gold in Effort to Bolster the Lira.” This in the same week that ” [n] ewly appointed Turkish finance minister […]
Böhm-Bawerk’s Review of the Exploitation Theory of Interest
By / February 22, 2022Austrian economic expert Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk is known among historians of economic idea for his powerful History and Review of Interest Theories( 1884 ). Before using his own explanation of the phenomenon of interest (in a second volume which appeared 5 years later on), Böhm-Bawerk first methodically classified and refuted all previous explanations. In my […]
The Power of the Word
By / February 18, 2022Holding to the faith of the very first centuries, the Orthodox had actually just never ever embraced the practices
Socialist Economies Are Difficult: Lessons from Russia, 1917– 22
By / February 17, 2022A little over one a century earlier, the Austrian financial expert Ludwig von Mises began arguing that a socialist economy is impossible. In the rough years following the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, Vladimir Lenin tragically proved him right in real time. Mises’s Argument In spite of all the pretenses of “scientific socialism,” Karl Marx […]
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