"Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
-Journal of American History
I’m filling in as host of the Peter Schiff Show again tomorrow (February 3). My guests will be Walter Williams and Andrew Bacevich, whose most recent books are, respectively, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? and … Continue reading
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick, front man Ian Anderson will release this follow-up recording. Now if only I could find out why Martin Barre is not involved either in this project … Continue reading
Courtesy of the SayAnythingBlog, this segment reports that the black market — in other words, people making free exchanges with each other without supervision and expropriation by state structures — now amounts to the world’s second-largest economy. (This unofficial economy … Continue reading
I’m filling in for Peter again tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow’s guests will be economist and Soviet defector Yuri Maltsev, editor of Requiem for Marx, and Vikrant Reddy of Right on Crime. You can listen live for free during the broadcast, … Continue reading
A documentary on the financial crisis, based on my book Meltdown, is in the works. The working title has been The Panic of 2008, but we think that makes it sound too much like a work of history. The film … Continue reading
Haven’t been able to blog for the past couple days; I’ve been on the road, speaking at Sheriff Richard Mack’s conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in Las Vegas. My next event will be near Seattle on … Continue reading
I get this kind of plea in my inbox all the time. I am not scolding anyone, and I have no one in particular in mind in this post. But the main problem is not so much that I’m too … Continue reading
The days of college kids paying $200 for a textbook may be numbered, thanks to Apple’s recently announced initiative for iPad textbooks, with multimedia capabilities, for $14.99. Any professor can design such a text, and Apple will give him a … Continue reading