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Some government programs seem to last forever, no matter how preposterous. So it is with agricultural subsidies. They raise prices. They reward in efficient producers. They subsidize unfairly. They divert resources
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The Mises Circle takes place at the beautiful and historical Union League Club of Chicago, 65 West Jackson Blvd. Registration is $85 and includes sessions, refreshment breaks, and lunch. Student scholarships are available.
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Join Doug French, Tom Woods, Yuri Maltsev, Tom DiLorenzo, and Jeff Tucker to discuss the future of liberty under expanding government.
Registration is $85 and includes sessions
Sponsored by Jeremy Davis
Through regulations, taxation, inflation of the money supply, trade restrictions, and tethers on private associations, government is nothing but a massive drain on prosperity. The situation has become deeply dangerous for the
Sponsored by Ron Wilson; Professional Planning of Easley LLC; and Furman University Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow
FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in
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8:30 a.m. Registration begins, Coffee, Bookstore Opens
9:30 a.m. Welcome, Douglas E. French
9:40 a.m. Douglas E. French, “The Trouble With Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe”
10:10 a.m. John P. Cochran
In honor of the late Murray N. Rothbard, S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Sponsored by Louis Carabini, Jeffrey Barr, Lee Iglody, Ron Wilson, Professional Planning of Easley LLC, and Richard Moss.
The
Only the Austrian perspective on economics can provide a credible accounting for what has happening to the monetary system, the banking system, the housing market, and the entire financial sector. Here is the conference that puts it all together: the
From Ancient Rome through modern-day America, money inflation has been the means by which the state extracts wealth without recourse to taxation.
Such a monetary policy leads to gutting savings, punishing investment, and the launching of economic
Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
The New Deal began before John Maynard Keynes propagated his theories. But the state was pleased to have a scientific gloss for its looting, inflating, and controlling ways. The question then and the question now is: does
Every government-based stimulus that has ever been tried has failed. This one is no different except that the failure might end up even more catastrophic. This one-day event features some of the best economic minds currently writing on the issue of
FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in the paper money we use today. So strong was the faith in inflation that his administration even mandated turning in all gold to
Sponsored by James M. Wolfe.
Imagine a team of doctors who think more poison is the solution to poisoning. That’s precisely how government has managed the economic downturn. The market is trying to correct the distortions, even as government makes
Sponsored by Mark L. Hart III
Imagine a team of doctors who think more poison is that solution to poisoning. That’s precisely how government has managed the economic downturn. The market is trying to correct the distortions, even as government piles
Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis
How many times has Washington proclaimed that inflation has been conquered, only to have it return when and where we least expect it? Inflation remains today the great enemy of individual economic planning. This has both
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There is a way out of the present crisis: end the government’s money monopoly. For reasons of history and bad economics, it is usually assumed that government must have sole control over the nation’s money, and
The Mises Circle goes to Seattle to address contemporary issues in liberty, and the role of capitalism as the main force for every form of progress in our age. We live amidst its fruits—technology, culture, philanthropy, human well being—and have yet
Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis
The economy seems headed for recession, if we aren’t already in one. Policy makers are ready with long lists of bad ideas (inflate the money supply, spend more, regulate business, protect industries against competition)
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Whoever has power abuses it. It seems that ideology works only as a cover, such that the right is as likely as the left to fasten control over our lives and property, if only in different ways and with different excuses.
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Archived recordings of this event are available.
Imperialism takes many forms, and is driven by many motivations, but its result has this in common with all forms of state interventions: it fails to achieve the overt aims of its proponents and it
