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** TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2020
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Central banking is almost entirely a phenomenon of the 20th century ... created as a means of financing the government.... If you say central banking is essential to a free market economy, I have to ask you about Hong Kong, which has no central bank at all.... Yet it does quite well in terms of economic growth and stability.
– Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium [1990]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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March 17, 2020
Libertarianism Can't Make Socialism Work ([link removed])
One of the fascinating phenomena of advancing libertarianism here at The Future of Freedom Foundation for the past 30 years has been seeing how frustrated statists become with the failure of libertarians to come up with solutions on how to make socialism work. Statists, of course, are people who look to government — and the force of government — to ...
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