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December 19, 2025 Guest Commentaries

The Fed’s “Sick Design”: How Post-2008 Policy Supercharged the Cantillon Effect

With the Fed cutting rates this month, free-market economists stand alone again in their condemnation of inflationary monetary policy. Despite recent years of high inflation, most economists still don’t appreciate the sinister and destructive effect inflation has on the economy, even in small amounts. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The […]

January 31, 2025 Original Analysis

Why We Should Bank Free

Free banking is seen by many as something that should be left in 18th century Scotland. Free banking is where each bank issues their own note that is redeemable for a certain amount of a commodity, typically gold. The value of the note is determined by the assessed probability that that bank will indeed be […]