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Interview of David Stockman who replies to Krugman and other critics, defends gold standard, etc. Might make for good material to assign to your classes.

Here is a short video of interviews of regular people inside Cyprus. It would make for good material to show in economics classes so that students could get a better feel for what is going

Apparently the media does not like the new book by David Stockman. Here Bloomberg columnist Clive Crook condemns Stockman for his analysis of government policy over the last 70 years, even though he admits the Austrian Business Cycle theory is probably the best explanation for the current crisis. Apparently Stockman is too much like Ron

For years we have been told that Japan is a fallen giant that was crippled by the stock market crash of 1989 and has yet to recover. The new Japanese political leadership has used this story to argue for higher inflation targets that would double the money supply and national debt to get Japan out of its malaise. This article from the New York

Here is the story of the Irish Austrian economist, Richard Cantillon. Bryan MacMahon on the life and mysterious death of Irish economist Richard Cantillon, who became one of the wealthiest men of the 18th

John O’Donnell interviews Walter Block. The interview begins around the 7 minute mark. Rothbard, the inflation-deflation debate, Ron Paul, and Walter’s new book are discussed.

Murray Rothbard argued that the cause of the Great Depression was the result of Herbert Hoover’s New Deal policies which sought to keep wages and profits high. Robert Higgs, Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway extended this thesis to FDR’s New Deal policies which created artificially high prices and profits and prevented the normal market

Thomas J. DiLorenzo in this 2004 Mises Daily, “ The New Deal Debunked (again) ”, provides detail on the work by Cole and Ohanian behind the Ohanian video highlighted on Mark Thornton’s Circle Bastiat post “ The Rothbard/Higgs/Vedder and Gallaway Thesis . Highlights from DiLorenzo: Macroeconomic model builders have finally realized what Henry

Mainstream economists, especially those of the Chicago School, have often tried to dismiss the Austrian School as a cult. Here Walter Block takes on a couple of those accusers.

Many oil-rich countries subsidize the sales of gasoline. Venezuela sells gasoline for less than 2 cents a gallon. The average per capita gasoline consumption is 413 kilograms. In neighboring Columbia gasoline is $4.72 and per capita consumption is 60 kilograms. This article from the Wall Street Journal (4/12) the provides the details of this great