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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
 
 

The price of gold has surged above $5,000 per ounce, and many have noted that central banks are buying more gold for their reserves. Others have claimed this is a flight away from the dollar. That’s true in a narrow sense, but the flight to gold is really more about a flight from fiat currencies overall, and not just the dollar.

Also today: Murray Rothbard recalls how some “founding fathers” fought to delete the Bill of Rights.

Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief

 
 
Dedollarization? It’s More Like “De-fiatization”
Daniel Lacalle
Investors are not abandoning dollars so much as they are abandoning fiat currency in favor of gold. Gold is rising as a share of reserves, but euros and yen are not.
 
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Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights
Murray N. Rothbard
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-nationalists at least had a fighting chance.
 
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The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts
 
Police protection, the law and the courts, and outlaw protectors.
 
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On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
 
 
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