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Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice.

Gary Gibson
He is the kind of politician even an anarchocapitalist could love.
Robert P. Murphy

The gold standard is more politically relevant than it has been in decades — so now the falsehoods spread. 

Mark Thornton

Milk in its natural state — raw milk — is consumed by very few Americans, because it is illegal in many states and thoroughly discouraged by federal health organizations, regulators, and the Big Dairy lobby. Its dangers are minimal, and those are due to its prohibition.

Stephen Mauzy
Where do the government-bond-investing gurus think government gets the money to run up astronomical deficits?
Douglas French

It's now considered too radical to believe that people should just throw unwanted items away. To allow people to do this is "going too far." But here is a fact: forcing people to spend time separating garbage turns the division of labor on its head.

Stephan Kinsella

Combining Misesian praxeology with Rothbardian insights, Hoppe has developed a magnificent, integrated edifice of rational thought.

Jeff Riggenbach
Libertarians in their teens and twenties could do far worse than to let their own attention be captured by Gary Chartier’s book.
Dan Sanchez
If Ludwig von Mises were alive today, he probably would not have been in the least surprised that the quants’ methods ultimately bore such bitter fruit.