Thomas James DiLorenzo on Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Authoritarianism and Manipulated History

The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Thomas DiLorenzo. DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola University Maryland. He is also a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and an affiliated scholar of the League of the South Institute, the research arm of the League of the South, and the Abbeville Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech. DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books

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Wheels Falling Off Euro?

What a day Friday was! The Daily Bell began its coverage of both the falling euro (and the failing EU) by pointing out that (as predicted), the power elite and the EU political elite, particularly, were using the EU "crisis" as a way to call for increased centralization (EU Leaders Seek 'US of Europe'). But then came the news that Nicolas Sarkozy of France had threatened to withdraw France from the EU if Angela Merkel of Germany didn't go along with the EU's just-announced trillion-dollar

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The New Austrian School of Economics

The Austrian School of Economics dates its beginnings back to the publication in 1871 of a slender volume: The Principles of Economics(Grundsätze der Volkwirtschaftslehre) by Carl Menger. The adjective "Austrian" was meant to be derogatory, introduced by economists of German school of historicism to ridicule Menger's idea of basing economic science on axiomatic foundations, on the pattern of logic and mathematics. The root of the word "Austrian" is "East", so the connotation of "Austrian

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Lincoln Mayors Office Wants Your Input on the Budget? Sorta

By Shelli Dawdy This is almost laughable. Almost. I find no small irony in the fact that the discussion about the City of Lincoln budget conveniently occurs after the primary election is over. It’s particularly convenient this year following the full court press (yes, pun intended) to build a new arena. A budget discussion at this point is [...]

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Hyperinflation or Hyperdeflation

James Turk's article Hyperinflation Looms dated April 20, 2010, is based on Quantity Theory of Money (QTM). It draws an analogy between Weimar Germany of 1923 and the United States of 2010. Both precepts are invalid. As far as the QTM is concerned, it suffices to point to the very fact, admitted by Turk, that it is possible to have a shortage of money simultaneously with the overworking of the printing presses. Hyperinflation is not the same as the ultimate inflation of the money supply.

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