Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim By Jeff Deist | Allen Mendenhall
Jeff Deist and Allen Mendenhall discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Kingsley Amis in his seminal send-up of campus life, Lucky Jim.
How Nixon and FDR Used "Crises" to Destroy the Dollar's Links to Gold By Jonathan Newman In 1971, Nixon used a fiscal crisis to justify severing the dollar's last connection to gold. It was the same old story: "we must vastly expand government power because of a 'crisis.'" The government never gives up these new powers.
The End of the Gold Standard. Fifty Years of Monetary Insanity By Daniel Lacalle The gold standard supposed a limit to the fiscal voracity of governments, and suspending it unleashed the perverse proclivity of the states toward indebtedness and to pass the current imbalances on to future generations.
