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Posts Tagged: “Myths“

June 26, 2025 Guest Commentaries

Fed Critics’ Three Central-Banking Myths

Some free-marketers mistakenly believe that the Federal Reserve would be more effective if it operated in a different political environment or had more resources to control the monetary supply. Instead, as the Austrian school emphasizes, the problem is with central banking per se. Central planning never works, especially when the planning is over the money […]

April 4, 2025 Guest Commentaries

Herbert Hoover: Rethinking the Free-Market Narrative

As this country approaches recession territory, interventionist myths about past recessions will only gain traction among the media and political class. One particularly egregious example– President Hoover’s role in the Great Depression– needs to be corrected.