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Dr. Shawn Ritenour - who has written 4 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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Can a Global Central Bank Make More Disciples?

Posted on 28 October 2011

Calls for a supranational central bank and global economic regulation in the wake of the economic crisis are the sort of destructive policy prescriptions we get when people do not understand basic economics or the nature and role of the Federal Reserve and state intervention in the economy.

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Where Have You Gone, Ludwig von Mises?

Posted on 14 September 2010

Washington’s stunning economic power grabs—healthcare centralization, Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and Federal Reserve bailouts—are creating an unintended consequence: an increasing demand for freedom literature. Exhibit A would have to be F.A. Hayek’s 66-year-old Road to Serfdom’s recently hitting number one for…

Government Stimulus: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Posted on 30 July 2010

The President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian scheme, crediting the stimulus for saving or creating 3.6 million…

Ludwig von Mises: Economist for the Ages

Posted on 09 October 2009

It seems that when an economy goes bad, the temptation for intellectuals to go and do likewise is too much for them to resist. Public thinkers across the spectrum, from Paul Krugman to Richard Posner, are now calling for a…