Private Property

Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss his recent talk on secession at Oklahoma State University.

Progressives argue that free markets stand in the way of economic and racial equality. In fact, free markets are the only vehicle that can help make people more equal.

Progressive elites tell us we will own nothing and will be happy. They forget that fundamental human rights are linked to property rights.

"Government" and "state" are terms typically used synonymously these days. But good governance and good law do not require the presence of the state and its monopoly power. 

While advocates of "decolonization" claim that property rights are a form of "Eurocentric imperialism," they also demand that results of economic prosperity that follow an ethic of property rights. "Decolonizers" cannot have it both ways.

Progressives argue that free markets stand in the way of economic and racial equality. In fact, free markets are the only vehicle that can help make people more equal.

Anarchocapitalism does not fall into the same category as socialism, whose establishment and maintenance require violence. Anarchocapitalism arises spontaneously from the removal of barriers that stand against the natural order of things.

Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race?

Mises in 1926: Public opinion always wants "easy money," that is, low interest rates. But it is the very function of the note-issuing bank to resist such demands, protecting its own solvency.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires of freedom in people's minds."