Jeff Deist addresses the topic of Austrian investing with Chris Casey, Managing Director of WindRock Wealth Management. If you are an investor and you are interested in Austrian Economics, you will enjoy this show.

Mises Daily Friday by Laurence Vance: 

Malcolm D. Magee’s new book on Woodrow Wilson, What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy, examines a much-neglected topic: the role of Wilson’s religion in his enthusiasm for war and his goal to “conquer, convert, and change the nations.”

Mises Daily Friday by Julian Adorney: 

States wish to gain monopolies and maintain them in all facets of life, while entrepreneurs strive to offer alternatives to the state. It’s our job to prevent the state from simply declaring the competition illegal.

From RTTV, posted November 20:

It’s not only politicians, business leaders in Europe also consider sanctions to be harmful for the EU. RT speaks to Lew Rockwell, chairman of the libertarian think tank The Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama who thinks that ordinary people are hit the hardest.

The Daily Bell skewers the Swiss banking class for its hostility to the upcoming gold referendum, a referendum which banking interests almost certainly will find a way to defeat. Still, as the article points out, central bankers are now on the defensive.

The flowering of the tiny house movement is due in large part to the most recent boom-bust cycle, which left many homeowners wondering if mountain-sized homes are worth equally sized debt or a risky gamble on future housing prices. For some, this meant moving into a house that could be smaller than their previous house’s bathroom.

The philosophy of Roy Bhaskar, who died November 19, would ordinarily hold little interest for readers of the Mises Blog. Bhaskar was a Marxist, who in his later years veered off toward a fuzzy spirituality. It is worth taking note of him, though, because he was an extreme example of a besetting sin of the contemporary academic world. His prose style made him unreadable; and one of his sentences was selected by the journal Philosophy and Literature as the winner of its 1996 Bad Writing Contest. This was the winning sentence:

What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy, Baylor University Press, 2008

Thomas DiLorenzo writes on the FTC’s latest “anti-monopoly” move: