Paulo Ferreira

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Axe the Bank of Portugal Before It Does More Harm

07/29/2025 Mises Wire Paulo Ferreira

The Federal Reserve is not the only central bank in the world doing monetary and economic damage. Portugal‘s central bank—working as a branch of the European Central Bank—has been undermining sound money and economic prosperity in that country.

The Portuguese Estado Novo Was Socialist

03/25/2025 Mises Wire Paulo Ferreira

Portugal's Estado Novo regime under António de Oliveira Salazar was lauded by some classical liberals for allegedly saving the nation from socialism. However, as Paulo Ferreira writes, for all practical purposes it was a socialist government.

Socialists and the Führer: A Match Made in Hell

01/13/2025 Mises Wire Paulo Ferreira

The German National Socialists (Nazis) took their inspiration from the USSR and other European socialists.

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Axe the Bank of Portugal Before It Does More Harm

07/29/2025 Paulo Ferreira

The Federal Reserve is not the only central bank in the world doing monetary and economic damage. Portugal's central bank, working as a branch of the European Central Bank, has been undermining sound money and economic prosperity in that country.

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