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Saturday, August 16, 2025
 
 
Central Banks Do Not Prevent Financial Crises or Control Inflation
Daniel Lacalle
Recent crises have highlighted that central banks do not prevent systemic disruption. Often, their interventions have only delayed the reckoning but made crises worse.
 
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You Can’t Yell “Chicken Jockey” in a Crowded Theater (Except When You Can)
Joshua Mawhorter
The hackneyed argument for government regulation of speech—yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater—has always been a red herring. Private property rights should be front-and-center when dealing with free speech issues.
 
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The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here
The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials convinced Ukraine to walk away from peace talks and fight.
 
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The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Lesson in Government Lawlessness
After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the usual “lone nut” narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI informants and agents may well have been involved.
 
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Richard Werner’s Credit Creation “Experiment”: How Do Banks Create Money?
Werner’s experiment is dubious at best. He strawmaned the alternative theories and set up the experiment in such a way that only his preferred theory would be confirmed.
 
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Trump’s DC “Takeover” and the Lessons of the OKC Bombing
Connor, Bill, and Tho examine how state overreach and political opportunism shape America’s crises.
 
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How Private Banks Can Create Money, But Not Like the Fed Can
Bob Murphy explains how liabilities and assets on bank balance sheets differ from popular assumptions.
 
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Stuck in
Jackson’s Hole
Mark Thornton explores the history, politics, and pageantry of the world’s most exclusive monetary policy conference.
 
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Trump Is Spending Taxpayer Money at Record Levels
 
DC math is truly magical.
 
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