Okay, now this myth has got to stop. Slaves were not well off being slaves compared to Irish in the North.
As a historian myself I can appreciate what Travlyr is trying to do. The fact remains Lincoln's legacy is a wartime president who did some unthinkable acts against people he considered...
Not a real Jefferson quote. Deflation and inflation when talking about currency did not exist in Jefferson's time, only prices of consumer goods were known to be effected by inflation or deflation.
Problem with his first video is it skips 100 years of history. The antebellum period was filled with government created and protected monopolies (see state chartered banks). It is also filled with government protected industries, such as protecting textile mills from liability if they dam up a...
Unions are in the business of taking your money. If they actually fought and won for your rights then they'd be out of a job. They give only enough to maintain relevancy and to get more of your money...nothing more nothing less.
There are no front lines anymore. Women are MPs and they see as much fighting as infantry soldiers do. The war is all around them, which is why soldier come home all screwed up. There is no "safe" place to fall back to get some RR because there are no front lines.
"The Monster of Monticello?"...really? Absolutely disgusting how this professor hides behind his profession as a historian and knowingly uses modern day moral judgments upon a man of the past. As a historian he should know better. Jefferson was no more racist than the majority of his...
How can you justify the notion of a recovery when consumption shrank and goods were rationed during the wartime command economy? I would see Robert Higg's book Depression, War, and Cold War for the answers you are looking for
Its okay to wind down from a long days work with a bottle of booze but do not play video games that is childish Never mind the fact that playing games have been proven to cause the same type of relaxation feeling you get from drowning your sorrows in a bottle.
Promise to pay and guarantee to pay are not the same. Without fractional reserve banking what you would have is a warehouse without any means to provide credit.
I'm sorry if Rothbard couldn't convince White and Selgin about the "fraud" of fractional reserve banking I don't think this post...