The Case for Optimism

The Federal Reserve: History, Theory and Practice

11/04/2019 Murray N. Rothbard

Recorded at “The Federal Reserve: History, Theory and Practice,” hosted by the Mises Institute at Jekyll Island, Georgia; September 4-7, 1986. Includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell.

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