by Greg Stuessel | Nov 10, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1830s) offers a brilliant outsider’s dissection of the young United States, probing how equality and liberty coexist without descending into Europe’s revolutionary chaos. Tocqueville marvels at America’s...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 9, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Hedonic Illusions: How Quality Adjustments Distort U.S. Inflation Data exposes the disconnect between Americans’ lived experience of rising costs and the tame inflation reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), arguing that hedonic adjustments—factoring in...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 8, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) by Reinhold Niebuhr delivers a stark, realistic critique of why individual morality fails to scale to groups amid the Great Depression and rising fascism. Niebuhr argues that individuals possess self-transcendence—sympathy,...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 7, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Supreme Damage by Thurman Leonard Smith exposes how the U.S. Supreme Court has morphed from a passive interpreter of law into a policy-making super-legislature, overriding elected representatives and eroding representative self-government. Smith contrasts this with...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 6, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Exchange Prices and Production in Hyperinflation dissects the catastrophic German hyperinflation of 1920–1923 through Frank Graham’s rigorous 1930 study, revealing how the mark’s collapse (prices doubling in hours, trillion-mark notes) masked a counterfeit prosperity....
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 5, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Human Action (1949) by Ludwig von Mises stands as a monumental defense of liberty, redefining economics as praxeology—the study of purposeful human action driven by individuals seeking to alleviate uneasiness under conditions of scarcity. Mises argues that all...
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