Listen: Cursèd Be His Name!

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Post date April 23, 2022
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Paul Jacob discusses the big issues of the week, including the principal whose name is and should be cursed, as well as what has been on the Common Sense politics plate this past week:

This Week in Common Sense for April 18 — 22, 2022.

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Sorry, Tim, [xʊɾˈʃid]. Close, but no hookah.

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The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about “inflation,” for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting “Stop, thief!” and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.
Murray N. Rothbard, The Case Against The Fed (1994), as quoted by Douglas French, “The Case Against the Fed: How Do We Eliminate Inflation and the Boom-Bust Cycle” (FEE, November 1, 1995).

— Murray N. Rothbard