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An amusing thing about Friedmanite positivism is its remarkable naïveté about how empirical social science research is actually done.

Ernest Borgnine, who died yesterday, said this in an interview in 1998 (h/t Justin Ptak):

Estonia is home to the latest Mises Institute (mises.ee).

From Paul Vahur, executive director, of Mises Institute Estonia:

“The theory involves a conceptual conflation of democracy and liberty (freedom) that can only be called scandalous, especially coming from se

The ECB has once again come to the rescue by cutting interest rates in order to forestall a collapse of the European economy.

“By such words, Hydarnes, you give us no good counsel,” replied the Lacedaemonians, “because you have experienced merely the adva

I was in Washington on what was an historic day, June 28, 2012 to testify

Oral Argument at Hearing entitled “Fractional Reserve Banking and the Federal Reserve: The Economic Consequences of High-Powered Money”

Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, John Cochran, and Lawrence White on fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve.

“There is no class that could champion liberalism for its own selfish interests to the detriment of the whole of society and the other strata