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	Central Banking in Crisis: Some Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency Bob Chapman, Global Research, 06.23.2010
	Bob Murphy: How the Monetary System Fuels the Debt Crisis Forum on the Future of Conservatism, Campaign for Liberty, 06.14.2010
	State Socialism and Anarchism Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, 1886
	Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism by Alan S. Kahan Jason Kuznicki, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government by Charles Rowley and Nathanael Smith Mark Calabria, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Government Housing Policy and the Financial Crisis Peter J. Wallison, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Debt and Systemic Risk: The Contribution of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Benn Steil, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	The World Economy: Bottoming Out or a Respite before the Next Crunch? Eswar Prasad, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Assessing the Financial Market Damage George Melloan, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Paradise Lost: Addressing Too Big to Fail Richard W. Fisher, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Reassessing the Fed's Regulatory Role Charles W. Calomiris, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Learning about Policy from Federal Reserve History Allan H. Meltzer, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	The Great Crash of 2008: Causes and Consequences Deepak Lal, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
	Does Malinvestment Matter? William L. Anderson, Not So Fast, The Freeman, 05.26.2010
	Jean-Baptiste Colbert Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 05.20.2010
	Free Trade: Key to Job Creation Anthony B. Kim, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 05.19.2010
	Financial Fiasco:How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis by Johan Norberg Waldemar Ingdahl, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses by Timothy P.Carney George Leef, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	The Pursuit of Happiness~ Drugs, Economics, and Liberty Walter Williams, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Peripatetics~ Jefferson’s Economist Sheldon Richman, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Our Economic Past~ Comparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession Burton W. Folsom, Jr., The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Producing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses Bruce Yandle, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	The New Financial Imperialism Robert Stewart, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	The Myth of the Model Max Borders, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Federal Deposit Insurance:A Banking System Built on Sand Warren C. Gibson, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)
	Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America by Adam Cohen Roger W. Garrison, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 4 (May 2010)
	Football and Spontaneous Orders Stephen Davies, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 4 (May 2010)
	GDP: Who Needs It? Warren C. Gibson, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 4 (May 2010)
	Inflation Destroys Savings Ludwig von Mises & Bettina Bien Greaves, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 05.18.2010
	Book Review: Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development Richard M. Ebeling, The Freeman, 05.18.2010
	Side Effects: Fewer Flippin’ Hamburgers at White Castle Kathryn Nix, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 05.17.2010
	Junk Economics: A Closer Look at Those Shocking Health Insurance Profits Robert Book, Ph.D., The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 05.17.2010
	Mercantilism: A Lesson for Our Times? Murray N. Rothbard, The Freeman, 1963
	The Education Bubble B. T. Donleavy, Ludwig von Mises, 05.12.2010
	The second world economic crisis – Webster Tarpley Russia Today, 04.28.2010
	Obama Plan Blows Secret Kisses to Wall Street Ernest Istook, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 04.28.2010
	Gold is a Viable Alternative to Currencies, in Spite of all the Manipulation Bob Chapman, Global Research, 04.28.2010
	Economic Freedom: Key to Post-Conflict Recovery Anthony B. Kim, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 04.27.2010
	What Raising Minimum Wages Has Meant for Two American Island Territories James Sherk, Aleksey Gladyshev, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 04.27.2010
	NABE Economists on Stimulus: No Impact! The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 04.26.2010
	Relying on Economic Freedom in Trying Times The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation, 04.23.2010
	Action Alert: Audit the Fed Amendment Vote Tuesday! Downsize DC, 05.03.2010
	A Closer Look at China's Currency Manipulation Jonathan M. Finegold Catalán, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 04.23.2010
	Teaching Inflation T. Hunt Tooley, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 04.22.2010
	The Bubble in For-Profit Schooling Aaron Smith, Mises Institute, 04.19.2010
	Austrian Economics Rising Thomas R. Eddlem, The New American, 04.15.2010
	Central Banking as an Engine of Corruption Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 04.16.2010
	Legends of the Fall: The Real and Imagined Sources of Our Bubble Economy Richard W. Fulmer, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 3 (April 2010)
	Give Me a Break! ~ Let’s Take the “Crony”Out of “Crony Capitalism” John Stossel, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 3 (April 2010)
	Government Must Stimulate to Avoid a 1937-Style Recession? It Just Ain’t So! Ivan Pongracic, Jr., The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 3 (April 2010)
	Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. Michael Beitler, The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 3 (April 2010)
	Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy by Arnold Kling Mark Calabria, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter 2010)
	In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel William Poole, Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter 2010)
	An Inflation Primer Melchior Palyi, Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1962
	Honest Money Gary North, Dominion Press, Fort Worth, Texas, 1986
	Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation Ludwig von Mises , Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010
	The Roots of Capitalism John Chamberlain, Van Nostrand, New York, 1965
	Nine Basic Economic Systems Ayn R. Key, 01.16.2010
	The Economic Crisis Ends; the Political Crisis Begins Shamus Cooke, Global Research, 12.24.2009
	The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., LewRockwell.com, 12.24.2009
	Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad, Cato Policy Analysis, 11.18.2009
	The Credit Crisis is Not Over Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster, 12.20.2009
	Officials and Experts Warn of Crash-Induced Unrest Washington's Blog, 12.16.2009
	EPA Ruling Opens Door for Unelected Washington Bureaucrats to Systematically Cripple US Economy Institute for Energy Research, 12.07.2009
	Cap and Trade Primer: Eight reasons why cap and trade harms the economy and reduces jobs Institute for Energy Research, 03.12.2009
	Peter Schiff and Dr. Ron Paul on U.S. Economy 10 minute film containing quotes from Peter Schiff and Ron Paul, 12.14.2009
	Killing the Currency Robert P. Murphy, The American Conservative, 12.11.2009
	The Health-Care Tax Eric M. Staib, The Free Market, Vol. 27, No. 12 (December 2009)
	The Triumph of Socialism Lew Rockwell, The Free Market, Vol. 27, No. 12 (December 2009)
	Are CEOs Paid Too Much? Robert P. Murphy, The Freeman, Vol. 56, No. 8 (October 2006)
	Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War? Chuck Baldwin, ChuckBaldwinLive.com, 12.11.2009
	Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act Rep. Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives, 12.09.2009
	The Case for Hoarding George F. Smith, The Free Market, Vol. 27, No. 11 (November 2009)
	Mortgage Socialism Lew Rockwell, The Free Market, Vol. 27, No. 11 (November 2009)
	Michael Moore Kills Capitalism Michael Covel, The Free Market, Vol. 27, No. 9 (September 2009)
	The Costs of Public Income Redistribution and Private Charity James Rolph Edwards, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 2007)
	Central Banking, Free Banking, and Financial Crises Roger W. Garrison, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 9, No. 6 (1996)
	A Critical Analysis of Central Banks and Fractional-Reserve Free Banking Jesus Huerta de Soto, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1995)
	Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist Murray N. Rothbard, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1990)

Articles

Libertarians condemn Obama’s unemployment numbers
Libertarian Party, Small Gov Times, 06.09.2009

Manipulation: How Financial Markets Really Work
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 05.29.2009

Obama to Government Motors: "Let's Roll"
Karen De Coster, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 05.22.2009

Medical Misunderstanding
Sheldon Richman, Foundation for Economic Education, 05.22.2009

Austrian Recipe vs. Keynesian Fantasy
Mark Thornton, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 05.21.2009

Socialism: Faith Trumps Reality
Ralph R. Reiland, Future of Freedom Foundation, 05.21.2009

We'll All Be Driving Obamamobiles
Brent Peterson, LewRockwell.com, 05.20.2009

Can President Obama’s Policies Heal the US Economy?
Frank Shostak, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 05.20.2009

Why Do We Need the SEC?
Jim Powell, Future of Freedom Foundation, 05.19.2009

The Malicious Myth of the 'Libertarian' Fed
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com, 05.08.2009

The real class warfare: responsible vs irresponsible
Classically Liberal, 05.19.2009

Bailout Nation
David Boaz, Cato@Liberty, 05.19.2009

Why Collectivism “works”, but doesn’t work
Chris, The Liberty Papers, 05.18.2009

Roots of Economic Crisis: Review of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
The New American, 05.15.2009

The Problem With Privatization
Thomas L. Knapp, Center for a Stateless Society, 05.15.2009

Tucker Confirms Geithner Presence at Bilderberg Meeting
Kurt Nimmo, Prison Planet, 05.14.2009

The Continuing Federal Budget Nightmare
William Anderson, Foundation for Economic Education, 05.14.2009

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
Bob Chapman, Global Research, 05.13.2009

Financial Crisis is designed to exert Total Control over the Lives of Individuals
Richard C. Cook, Global Research, 05.09.2009

Beware of Obamanomics
Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., LewRockwell.com, 05.09.2009

Looking Back on the Greatest Depression
Gerald Celente, LewRockwell.com, 05.07.2009

Of, By, and For the Elite
Sheldon Richman, Foundation for Economic Education, 05.01.2009

What Is Seen and What Is Unseen: Government "Job Creation"
Larissa Price, Foundation for Economic Education, 02.11.2009

Bank stress test results leaked
D. Gaking, Dprogram.net & IndyTruth.org, 04.20.2009

Government Motors?
William Anderson, Foundation for Economic Education, 04.02.2009

Economics a Hot Topic in Woods' Book Meltdown
Charles Scaliger, The New American, 03.31.2009

On Transparency of the Fed
Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Straight Talk, 02.23.2009

Downsize DC Predicts Massive Price Inflation: End the Fed
Perry Willis, Downsize DC, 02.23.2009

Rep. Pence Calls For Spending Freeze In Washington
Republicans in Congress, GOP.gov, 02.23.2009

Tooth Fairy Economics
Tom Woods, Campaign for Liberty, 02.18.2009

Roots of the Banking Crisis
Dr. Michael Beitler, Campaign for Liberty, 02.13.2009

The Empire of Ozymandias
Stewart Ogilby, The BigEye Blog, 02.05.2009

Why Did This Happen?
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com, 02.05.2009

Stimulus: The Power of Names
David Friedman, Ideas, 01.31.2009

Stimulus Defined
S.M. Oliva, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 02.04.2009

Wasteful pork in the Obama “stimulus” bill
D. Gaking, IndyTruth, 02.04.2009

Does SCHIP Work?
Michael F. Cannon, National Review Online, 02.02.2009

Big Business and the Stimulus
Tad DeHaven, Cato-at-Liberty, 01.30.2009

More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression
Steve Watson, Infowars.net, 01.29.2009

Enemies of Capitalism
Briggs Armstrong, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 01.27.2009

Misunderstanding the Causes of the Great Depression
Bob Murphy, Campaign for Liberty, 10.11.2008

Confidence Is Leaving the Fiat Money System
Thorsten Polleit, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 10.10.2008

Financial Crisis and Recession
Jesus Huerta de Soto, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 10.06.2008

A Futile Bailout as Darkness Falls on America
Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, 10.06.2008

Congresswoman: Criminal Insiders Behind Bailout Bill
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet, 09.29.2008

What's Behind the Financial Market Crisis?
Antony Mueller, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 09.18.2008

Paulson-Bernanke Plan Would Give the Fed Broad New Powers
JBS Staff, The New American, 08.04.2008

Audio

Please, Sir, May I Work More Hours?
William L. Anderson, Mises Institute Austrian Workshop, 10.30.1996

Books

Austrian Economics: An Anthology
Bettina Bien Greaves, FEE, 1996

Essays on Liberty: Volume 1
Foundation for Economic Education, 1952

Essays on Liberty: Volume 2
Foundation for Economic Education, 1954

Essentials of Economics: A Brief Survey of Principles and Policies
Faustino Ballvé, FEE, 1994

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig von Mises, 1940

Man, Economy, and the State, with Power and Market
Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004

Book Reviews

A Treatise for A New Age in Economic Theory: A Review of George Reisman’s Capitalism
Wladimir Kraus, Libertarian Papers, Vol. 1, 2009

Roots of Economic Crisis: Review of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
The New American, 05.15.2009

Economics a Hot Topic in Woods' Book Meltdown
Charles Scaliger, The New American, 03.31.2009

Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy; Book 1 of Political Capitalism (A Trilogy) by Robert L. Bradley Jr.
Richard L. Gordon, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton Folsom, Jr
The Mises Review, Volume 14, Issue 4, Winter 2008

The Swiss National Bank: 1907–2007 by Werner Abegg, Ernst Baltensperger, et al...
Kurt Schuler, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3, Fall 2008

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global
Economy by Edward Gresser
Daniel Griswold, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2008

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber
Will Wilkinson, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Economics and Its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics by William Oliver Coleman
John B. Egger, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 2007

Review of Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics by Alejandro Chafuen
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, Fall 2005

Book Review of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton
Thomas J. Dilorenzo, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, Issue 4, Fall 2004

Review of J.C. Lester's Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled
David Gordon, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 4, Fall 2003

Book Review: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
Gabriel Calzada Alvarez, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 2002

Scholarly Papers, Studies, etc.

Austrian Economics—The Ultimate Achievement of an Intellectual Journey
Pascal Salin, Libertarian Papers, Vol. 1, 2009

A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War: Hours Worked, 1929–1950
Robert Higgs, Libertarian Papers, Vol. 1, 2009

How to Turn a Recession Into a Depression
William A. Niskanen, Cato Policy Report, Volume 31, Issue 2 March/April 2009

Origins of the Financial Market Crisis of 2008
Anna J. Schwartz, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Reflections on the Financial Crisis
Allan H. Meltzer, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

What Lessons Can We Learn from the Boom and Turmoil?
Jeffrey M. Lacker, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Financial Innovation, Regulation, and Reform
Charles W. Calomiris, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Bad Rules Produce Bad Outcomes: Underlying Public-Policy Causes of the U.S. Financial Crisis
Bert Ely, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Federal Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubble
Lawrence H. White, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Money and the Present Crisis
Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr., Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

The Way Forward: Incentives, Not Regulations
William Poole, Cato Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Milton Friedman and the Case against Currency Monopoly
George Selgin, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2008

The Federal Reserve’s Role in the Great Contraction and the Subprime Crisis
Richard H. Timberlake, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2008

Economic Development and the Role of Currency Undervaluation
Surjit S. Bhalla, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2008

State Income Taxes and Economic Growth
Barry W. Poulson and Jules Gordon Kaplan, Cato Journal, Volume 28, Issue 1, Winter 2008

Can Corruption Ever Improve an Economy?
Douglas A. Houston, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 3, Fall 2007

Economic Freedom, Corruption, and Growth
Mushfiq us Swaleheen and Dean Stansel, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 3, Fall 2007

The Costs of Public Income Redistribution and Private Charity
James Rolph Edwards, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2, Summer 2007

Responding to Financial Crises: What Role for the Fed?
William Poole, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2007

The Role of Monetary Policy in the Face of Crises
Anna J. Schwartz, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Responding to Crises
Jeffrey Frankel, Cato Journal, Volume 27, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Is "Malinvestment" Enough to Go Bust?
Enrico Colombatto, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 19, Issue 3, Summer 2005

Legal Tender Laws and Fractional-Reserve Banking
Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, Issue 3, Summer 2004

Praxeology as Law & Economics
Josef Sima, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, Issue 2, Spring 2004

The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment
Spencer Heath MacCallum, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 4, Fall 2003

Economics, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Elderly Welfare State
James Rolph Edwards, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, Winter 2003

Symposium: Chicago versus the Free Market, Introduction
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2002

Milton Friedman Unraveled
Murray Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2002

George Stigler and the Myth of Efficient Government
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2002

On Property and Exploitation
Walter Block, International Journal of Value-Based Management, No. 15, 2002

Value Freedom in Economics
Walter Block, The American Economist, Vol. 19, Spring 2001

Reflections on Human Action after 50 Years
Vernon L. Smith, Cato Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall 1999

The Methodology of Human Action
Lawrence H. White, Cato Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall 1999

The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, and Greenspan
Walter Block, Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1999

Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System
Walter Block, International Journal of Value-Based Management, No. 12, 1999

Liberty and Property
Ludwig von Mises, Lecture at Princeton University, October 1958

On the Origins of Money
Carl Menger, Economic Journal, Vol. 2, 1892