Those were the closing words of Jim Rogers on a lengthy interview broadcast today on Bloomberg News. While the entire discourse is worth watching, the first couple of minutes attacks the facade, the skewed employment numbers published by both the Fed and most of the banking-bureaucratic establishment; or in his words, “these are fraudulent
Introduction The Ahistorical State Nozick’s “Nonaggressive” State From “Ultra-minimal” to “Minimal” The Right to Be “Nonproductive” From Minimal State Back to Anarchism Conclusion Notes Robert Nozick , 1938–2002 Ask a nonlibertarian academic for the title of a libertarian book. If they’ve heard of any, it will be Harvard Philosopher Robert
Ever since the first banner ad found its way online, there has been a virtual arms race between ad placement technology and ad blocking. The latest chapter in this ongoing saga revolves around Adblock Plus , an extension that can be integrated into the Firefox browser that essentially blocks all ads. And in short, due to the fact that tools like
Introduction: Education vs Training Dissatisfaction with American “Education” Tinkering with the Mechanics of Education The Educational Theory of Equality and Democracy The Literate Citizen Classical Education Training, Diluted Science, and Big Numbers Drugstore Education The Great Tradition Sound Theory and a Reasonable Precision in Nomenclature
Re-nationalization, high tariffs, Keynesian monetary and fiscal “policy”, and all the U.N.’s CEPAL recipe for disaster is back in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Having to say a lot on the subject, let me just begin with Hugo Chavez’s proposal for an expiring, voucher-based currency. Besides being anything but original , it would take
The Scientific Foundation of a Rational Economic Policy Conformity or Contradiction? The Example of the Strike The Various Alternatives Notes Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was the student of Carl Menger and the teacher of Ludwig von Mises. Like Menger, he rejected the contention of the Historical School that there were no universally valid laws of
‘ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1881, Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was the first in his family to be born a nobleman.’ So begins The Last Knight of Liberalism , by Jörg Guido Hülsmann. Happy Birthday Ludwig Heinrich Edler von
Over the past decade, circulation of the major national newspapers has steadily declined . This is due in large part to various, typically free technologies comprising the Internet (newsgroups, RSS feeds, web-only content, email newsletters, forums). Yet while disruptive technologies such as the automobile replaced the horse buggy, the Columbia
According to the Mises.org Freedom Calendar , Marcus Tullius Cicero was born 2,115 years ago yesterday. (According to Wikipedia , it was 2,114 years ago.) Gary Galles wrote, According to Anthony Everitt, he was “an unknowing architect of constitutions that still govern our lives.” John Adams said of him, “All ages of the world have not produced a
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.