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Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?

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Lawrence H. White continued our "End Inflation and End the Fed" conference with the fifth talk on November 1, 2022. Lawrence H. White is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a distinguished senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Prior to his position at George Mason, he was the F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a visiting professor at the Queen’s School of Management and Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

FFF Conference: End Inflation and End the Fed

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With prices of gasoline, food, healthcare, automobiles, and other essentials rising across the board, U.S. officials and the mainstream press are playing the standard blame game -- that rising prices are the fault of greedy business owners. In actuality, there is one -- and only one -- cause of inflation--the Federal Reserve. To pay off the ever-increasing debt that federal officials have incurred to fund their massive welfare-state and warfare-state programs, the Fed has debased our currency for decades through inflationary expansion of the money supply. Join us every Monday beginning October 3, 2022 for our new online conference "End Inflation and the Fed," for a great series of lectures on the spending, debit, and inflation crisis facing our nation and what we need to do to restore sound money to our land. Beginning Monday, October 3rd at 7 PM and continuing weekly through November 21st, The Future of Freedom Foundation will be ...

A Swiss Oasis of Liberal Sanity in a Totalitarian Europe

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On September 16, 1939, barely more than two weeks after the beginning of the Second World War in Europe with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, the “Austrian”-oriented British economist Lionel Robbins finished the preface to his short book, The Economic Causes of War. The five chapters making up the 125-page volume had originally been delivered as a series of lectures at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, in the spring of 1939. With a new world war now threatening to once again place political and military barriers in the way of relatively easy travel for the exchange of goods and ideas across the European continent, Robbins wistfully paid homage to that institution and what he considered its significance in the interwar period: How much of all that was most stimulating and inspiring in the period between the two wars is typified in their lovely college by the lake. Long may it flourish, an oasis of ...