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September 2024

09/12 – Issue #98 The Revolving Door of the ICC (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 18)

June 2024

06/22 – Issue #97 Jay Gould – The Cartel Buster (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 17)
06/11 – Issue #96 The Interstate Commerce Act (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 16)
06/07 – Issue #95 The Trunk Line Cartels (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 15)
06/03 – Issue #94 The FDIC is (still) insolvent

May 2024

05/31 – Issue #93 The Iowa Pool Cartel (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 14)
05/29 – Issue #92 The Failure of Price Fixing (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 13)
05/28 – Issue #91 The Rate Wars (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 12)

January 2024

01/18 – Issue #90 Who Owns Water? (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 11)

October 2023

10/12- Issue #89 Looting the Treasury
10/03- Issue #88 Treasuries are Tanking. Why?

April 2023

04/03 – Issue #87 The Turner Thesis (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 10)

March 2023

03/21 – Reader Q&A Why Did You Create Wtf Happened in 1971?

February 2023

02/24 – Issue #86 The Fall of Jay Cooke (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 9)

November 2022

11/30 – Issue #85 The Railroading of America (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 8)
11/25 – Issue #84 A Question of Land (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 7)

October 2022

10/18 – Issue #83 Price Deflation (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 6)
10/06 – Issue #82 The National Bank Act & Industrialization (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 5)
10/05 – Issue #81 Lasting Effects of the Civil War (The End of Laissez-Faire Part 4)
10/04 – Issue #80 Expansion of Statism & The Civil War (The End of Laissez-Faire part 3)
10/01 – Issue #79 The Protestant Revival (The End of Laissez Faire part 2)

September 2022

09/30 – Issue #78 The American Political System (The End of Laissez Faire part 1)

April 2022

My most cohesive thesis to date, originally published in the Spring of 2021 – Fiat Lux: The Origins of Modern Money

February 2021

02/14 – Issue #77 Reader Q&A – Unemployment and Recessions

October 2020

10/04 – Issue #76 Base Layer Settlement
10/01 – Issue #75 The Asymmetry of Risk and Reward

September 2020

09/29 – Issue #74 The Panic of 1792 & 1796-1797
09/26 – Issue #73 Income Inequality and Inflation
09/22 – Issue #72 The Panic of 1819
09/20 – Issue #71 The Student Debt Bubble
09/17 – Issue #70 The Panic of 1837
09/15 – Issue #69 Compensation and Healthcare
09/13 – Issue #68 To Each According to His Need
09/11 – Issue #67 The London Gold Pool
09/09 – Issue #66 The Panic of 1857
09/07 – Issue #65 The De-industrialization of the West
09/05 – Issue #64 The Right Side of Ethics
09/02 – Issue #63 Why Money?

August 2020

08/30 – Issue #62 The Erosion of Entrepreneurship
08/28 – Issue #61 The Panic of 1873
08/26 – Issue #60 The panic of 1893
08/24 – Issue #59 Stagnant Wages Means You Lose
08/22 – Issue #58 A Bi-Partisan Deception
08/19 – Issue #57 CPI is a Lie
08/17 – Issue #56 Property Theft is Violence
08/15 – Issue #55 1971 + 49
08/13 – Issue #54 The Revenue Act of 1913
08/11 – Issue #53 The Aldrich Plan
08/09 – Issue #52 The Panic of 1907
08/06 – Issue #51 Fractional Reserve Banking
08/04 – Issue #50 Taxation without Legislation
08/02 – Issue #49 A Renaissance of Money

July 2020

07/31 – Issue #48 The Goals of the Fed
07/29 – Issue #47 The Burdens of Regulation
07/27 – Issue #46 Silver is Overpriced
07/26 – Issue #45 Inflation Must be Unfair
07/24 – Issue #44 FDR’s Tax Reform (New Deal)
07/22 – Issue #43 The Bondage of Debt
07/21 – Issue #42 Court Packing Plan (New Deal)
07/20 – Issue #41 Unemployment and the Market (New Deal)
07/19 – Issue #40 Labor Relations Act (New Deal)
07/18 – Issue #39 Governments Create Incentives (New Deal)
07/17 – Issue #38 That Which is Unseen
07/16 – Issue #37 The Great Crash of 1929 (New Deal)
07/15 – Issue #36 The Coercion of Fiat
07/14 – Issue #35 Socialized Security (New Deal)
07/13 – Issue #34 FDIC is Insolvent (New Deal)
07/12 – Issue #33 The 1933 Banking Act (New Deal)
07/11 – Issue #32 The Abundance of Technology
07/10 – Issue #31 The Fed Owns No Gold (New Deal)
07/09 – Issue #30 Deflation is Accountability
07/08 – Issue #29 Properties of Money
07/07 – Issue #28 The Battle of Waterloo
07/06 – Issue #27 The Coincidence of Wants
07/05 – Issue #26 Intrinsic Value Doesn’t Exist
07/04 – Issue #25 Sons of Liberty
07/03 – Issue #24 Independence of Mind
07/02 – Issue #23 The Pessimism of the Luddite
07/01 – Issue #22 Passive Income is a Lie

June 2020

06/30 – Issue #21 Fake Money, Fake Food
06/29 – Issue #20 Agricultural Adjustment (New Deal)
06/28 – Issue #19 Fiat is Unconstitutional Part 2
06/27 – Issue #18 Fiat is Unconstitutional
06/26 – Issue #17 Productive Use of Capital
06/25 – Issue #16 Hoarding is NOT Dangerous
06/24 – Issue #15 The Real Cost of Debt
06/23 – Issue #14 Remember When Owning Gold Was Illegal? (New Deal)
06/22 – Issue #13 Minimum Wage Does Maximum Damage
06/21 – Issue #12 The Essentials of Private Property
06/20 – Issue #11 Hoarding is Dangerous
06/19 – Issue #10 The Cantillon Effect
06/18 – Issue #9 The Asset Inflation Ponzi
06/17 – Issue #8 Broken Money Broke Investing
06/16 – Issue #7 The Profits of Financial Engineering
06/15 – Issue #6 The Triffin Dilemma
06/14 – Issue #5 WTF Happened in 2020?
06/13 – Issue #4 WTF1971 in the News
06/12 – Issue #3 Not worth a continental
06/11 – Issue #2 Jay Powell – Ignorant or Evil?
06/10 – Issue #1 Bimetallism is pegged to bad policy