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Unshackling the Fed

The very idea that the FOMC would function as faithful monetary eunuchs, keeping their eyes on the M1 gauge and deftly adjusting the dial in either direction upon any deviation from the 3 percent target, was sheer fantasy. And not only because of its political naïveté, something Nixon’s brutalization of the hapless Arthur Burns aptly conveyed.

Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?

Consider the sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-somethings who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, or Pashtun, and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places.

Why Be Libertarian?

Why be libertarian, anyway? Why engage in a deep and lifelong commitment to the principle and the goal of individual liberty?

Language as Action

Being a type of spontaneous order, it is no surprise that language is subject to the same kinds of centrally-planned disruptions as economic systems.


The Circle Bastiat

David Gordon: Oakley on Pathological Altruism
Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, has just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. a brilliant article on pathological altruism. https://mail-attachment.googleusercont ... More »

Mark Thornton: Intro to Bitcoin
Mark Thornton is interviewed about the basics of Bitcoin ... More »

Mark Thornton: Rothbard in the New Yorker
Not exactly correct on all point, but worth a read. In fact, there is one anarchist who could be considered influential in Washington, but he wasn’t among the activists who participated in the Occupy movement—he died nearly twenty years ago. His ... More »

Robert Higgs: Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013)
Robert Fogel died a few days ago. He was a prominent figure in the academic economic history profession for five decades, virtually from the time he burst onto the scene with the publication of a polished-up version of his Johns Hopkins Ph.D. di ... More »

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Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard

The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard Mr. Libertarian, a great genius of twentieth century and one of the most innovative intellectuals in human history, still has more and more to sa... More »

Making Economic Sense

Do you ever watch the business news and think: what would Murray Rothbard say about this? He remained a news junky all his life, even while working on his grand scholarly treatises. He was no academic... More »

Requiem for Marx

After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wide-ranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism? Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but unedu... More »

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Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises (Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism; Liberty and Property)

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Complete Libertarian Forum (1969-1984)

Individualism and Economic Order

Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow



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