What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?

07/07/2014 Mises Wire Joseph T. Salerno

Mises Daily Monday by David Howden and Daniel Fernández-Renau Atienza The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda.

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