From The Rude Awakening Newsletter (Wednesday, October 20, 2004): The IMF was conceived in July 1944 at an international conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. John Maynard Keynes and Harry White, according to the exhibition in the IMF’s main foyer, envisioned the IMF “helping each county set a fixed but changeable exchange rate for it
The Free Market 19, no. 9 (September 2001) By the standards of the Left, Adolf Hitler would have been deemed a “great statesman,” had he died before he started the war (or if he had won it). That’s because the left tends to measure greatness by the amount of land and number of people under one man’s thumb. By that standard, Hitler was a great
John Walker, quien dejó su hogar en California para unirse a los talibanes, no fue el primer ciudadano estadounidense en ser seducido para registrarse a un movimiento ideológico extranjero. A medida que América se sumió en la depresión de la década de 1930, también se embarcó en lo que se llamaría su “Década Roja” de enamoramiento con la Unión
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.