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34. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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35. Charles A. Conant, Surplus Capital, and Economic Imperialism
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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36. Conant, Monetary Imperialism, and the Gold-Exchange Standard
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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37. Jacob Schiff Ignites the Drive for a Central Bank
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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38. The Panic of 1907 and Mobilization for a Central Bank
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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39. The Final Phase: Coping with the Democratic Ascendancy
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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40. Conclusion to Part II
From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by…
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41. From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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42. The Early Fed, 1914-1928: The Morgan Years
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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43. The Hoover Fed: Harrison and Young
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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44. The Advent of Eugene Meyer, Jr.
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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45. Meyer in the Hoover Administration
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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46. The New Deal: Going off Gold
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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47. Banking and Financial Legislation: 1933-1935
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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48. Marriner S. Eccles and the Banking Act of 1935
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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49. Epilogue: Return of the Morgans
From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the…
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50. The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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51. The Classical Gold Standard
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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52. Britain Faces the Postwar World
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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53. Return to Gold at $4.86: The Cunliffe Committee and After
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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54. American Support for the Return to Gold at $4.86: The Morgan Connection
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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55. The Establishment of the New Gold Standard of the 1920s: Bullion, Not Coin
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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56. The Gold-Exchange Standard, Not Gold
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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57. The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926-1929
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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58. Depression and the End of the Gold-Sterling-Exchange Standard: 1929-1931
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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59. Epilogue to Part IV
From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years"…
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60. The New Deal and the International Monetary System
From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System"…
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61. The Background of the 1920s
From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System"…
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62. The First New Deal: Dollar Nationalism
From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System"…
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63. The Second New Deal: The Dollar Triumphant
From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System"…
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64. Epilogue to Part V
From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System"…
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Francis Hutcheson: Teacher of Adam Smith
Hutcheson brought to Scottish philosophy a solid belief in natural rights and in the beneficence of nature, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This…
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Mutual Aid: The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin
Kropotkin, the founder of anarchist communism, defended the key ideas of libertarianism - social cooperation and rejection of coercion - and was the chief…
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Commodity Money in Colonial America
Gold and silver are international commodities, and, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard…
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How Marshall Field Succeeded
This world-renowned merchant seeks no fame for his business achievements. Yet there is no story more full of encouragement and inspiration for youth, writes…
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I Watch Westerns
The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for…
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Like Saving Ten Cents on a Trip to the Moon
Dennis Miller interviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author of 'Rollback,' who takes a closer look at Obama's new budget. Recorded 15 February 2011. [10:31]
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QE2 and Egypt
Higher food prices set off the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the mass protests in countries like Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, and Iran. People in…
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The First American Anarchist: Josiah Warren
Warren rejected Owen's communist colonies like New Harmony, Indiana, because he saw that the individual would be stifled by the common property scheme. "Peace…
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How to Acquire Political Power: The Economics of Winning Elections
Voters are faced with bundled choices, they vote infrequently, no individual's vote will affect the election, voters have little incentive to be highly…
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The Healthcare Herring
Announcing that 50 million Americans are uninsured means nothing. It could be our government's involvement that has led to the current situation, writes…
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Daniel Bernoulli and the Founding of Mathematical Economics
The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulation…
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A Renegade History of the United States
Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History is highly recommended for showing, among many other things, that both individualism and Puritanism thrived in America even…
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How Thomas Edison Succeeded
The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the…
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To Hell with Farming
God knows I had enough to do without sitting and listening to the city people tell me what an idyllic life I had and how they envied me. But I didn't notice…
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Physiocracy and Free Trade in 18th-Century France: Strategy and Influence
It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end their power…
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A Soviet Foreign Policy: A Revisionist Perspective
It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at…
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Libertarian Science Fiction
Sci-fi novels are an important means of spreading the libertarian anti-state word.The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell and the Weapon Shops of Isher by…
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'Objective' Value and Cost of Production
It was the physiocrats who broke with centuries of sound economic reasoning and contributed to what would become, in the hands of Smith and Ricardo, a…
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Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
If you abjure all violence, you must abjure the state. Thus, while not all libertarians are pacifists, all pacifists are libertarians, whether they realize it…
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The Chimera of a Perfect State of Mankind
It is man's nature to strive ceaselessly after the substitution of more satisfactory conditions for less satisfactory. This motive stimulates his mental…
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Why the Definition of Probability Matters
Human beings do not possess a mystical property of "probability" inside them; rather, they always act on their subjective beliefs and values. Probability in…
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Banking and the Fed as Enemies of Prosperity
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011. Includes a Question-and-Answer period.
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Destroying Capital with the Printing Press
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.
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Government is Responding to the Crisis—Run for Your Life!
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.
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Hazlitt and Keynes
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.
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Wreckonomics: While the People Sleep
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.
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Applying Economics to American History
Higgs declares that you have to know basic economics in order to understand historic events. Human Action is the basic book for basic economics. Economic laws…
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Ben Bernanke: Loose Talk and Loose Money
Spontaneous emergence in the evolution of money was founded on individual action. Government cannot proclaim something to be money. Money is a commodity which…
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Meet Crystal Meth
Crystal meth is a horrible drug, but it is also a cheap date, the poor man's cocaine. During cocaine's heyday, meth was nearly extinct on the illegal market…