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In our world of interventionist laws and regulations, I have found a Rothbardian island, so to speak — a place where the ethics of liberty live.

After taking office, President Obama massively expanded regulation, from Obamacare to the proliferation of regulatory czars, and proposed still more.

The "knotty problems" Gold describes are just the failure of the theories of Keynes and Friedman to adequately explain the recession of 2008 and plot a proper course out of the downturn.

The political project of the euro is in deep trouble. Governments have pledged three-quarters of a trillion of our euros to put out the debt-crisis wildfire, yet interest rates on troubled sovereign debts are even higher than before the announcement of the bailout.

I am pleased to announce that, starting July 20, I (and guest lecturer Peter Klein) will offer a Mises Academy class, <a href="http://academy.mises.org/courses/production/">Production and the Market Process</a>.

How many bystanders am I justified in murdering in order to eliminate someone trying to kill me? If I abandon the principle of not harming innocents, what standard should I use to calculate how many innocent people I may murder in the process of protecting myself?

Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed.

Is the US-NATO war in Libya all about "protecting civilians"? Apparently not.

Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was born in 1905 in the village of Bellikoth, near Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. He became a hugely influential proponent of Hayekian theory and policy. He is sadly neglected today.

Block cleared away the irrational, inchoate underbrush of my own thought.