Mises Daily

"Most of the essays in this book imagine radical new possibilities of living outside the status quo. Or perhaps we should say statist quo…"

The Soviet Union produced the most effective and successful propaganda machine in the history of mankind. Mikhail Suslov was that machine, and that machine was Mikhail Suslov.

If anyone is to take the blame for the current mess in which European countries find themselves, it should not be the bearers of bad news but those who steered the affected economies in the unsustainable direction.

"Do you think Alan might basically be a social climber?"—Ayn Rand

The smog and pollution in China provide us with a valuable lesson: the standard libertarian paradigm of property rights needs to be extended to the environment. First-use homesteading must be the basis of environmental rights, which are currently socialized property.

Who then will bear witness in court? Whoever wishes to do so, freely and voluntarily.

Bankers who engage in fractional-reserve banking really do create "money out of thin air." Austrian economics is superior to Marxism in every respect.

A system of private-property rights over all else would be a better solution.

"If this mania increases we shall slide into a social order under which everyone has one hand in the pocket of another."

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