Who doesn’t know them: the blood-sucking vampires, the eerie undead, immortalized in countless films, and inspired primarily by Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Just think of iconic movies like the...
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Dr. Thorsten Polleit is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland. He publishes Dr. Polleits BOOM & BUST REPORT (www.boombustreport.com).
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It may not have been created in the lab of a mad scientist, but the euro is still a manufactured, cobbled-together currency made from a number of national monetary units. Indeed, it is the perfect Frankenstein currency.
In 1818, the English writer Mary W. Shelly (1797-1851) published her gruesome novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, which became world famous. In the story, the scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein...
