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Thursday, July 30, 2026
 
 
Back in the USSR: Spending Two Weeks in a Real Socialist Country
Patrick Barron
It is one thing to understand socialism on an abstract basis but quite another to spend an extended amount of time in a socialist country, this one being the former USSR. The failures of socialism become obvious when seen on the ground.
 
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Illinois Takes a Swipe at Interchange Fees—and Misses
Tyler Curtis
While governments charge fees for just about everything, suddenly governments have decided that private fees are harmful. Illinois has been especially aggressive in trying to make certain transaction fees illegal, but the results are different than what politicians there anticipated.
 
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Rothbard vs. the Free Bankers
Bob reviews Murray Rothbard’s 1988 essay “The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland,” his sharp response to Larry White’s influential account of Scottish free banking.
 
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The Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution
The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite.
 
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The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland

Reviewing White’s Free Banking in Britain, Rothbard dismantles the claim that Scotland enjoyed a century of successful free banking before the Peel Act of 1845.

 
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Murray N. Rothbard:
The Making of an Austrian Economist
 
This new book by Joseph Salerno and Patrick Newman’s serves as a useful complementary volume to Man, Economy, and State by elucidating Rothbard’s many contributions and the process by which he developed an integrated structure of economic theory using the praxeological method.
 
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