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Besides national defense, no government-provided service enjoys as much exemption from scrutiny as the provision and subsidization of primary public education.

Whether or not anti-trust legislation remains helpful to consumers, or makes any economic sense, remains entirely debatable.

The professional custodians of American views of history have always named the same presidents as "great." It's always the presidents who abused power frequently, and expanded government power the most.

As flaws in the system of fractional-reserve free banking began to appear, private central bank-like institutions known as clearinghouses sprang up, and they helped pave the way for the Fed.

Each physical unit of a means that enters into human action is valued separately.

Mises wrote this essay in 1940 from Geneva, where he lived after Nazis forced him out of Austria and his apartment was ransacked by German troops.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge.

The price system performs the crucial function of transmitting knowledge throughout the society and thereby eliminates the need for bureaucracy.

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a hip economic/financial paradigm apparently sweeping a world unsatisfied with mainstream economics.

The only real solution to negative-attack politics is to reduce the power and scope of government over our lives.