As governments expand their control over society, it can be easy for liberty advocates to get discouraged. As Obamacare imposes mandates and price controls on private health care, as the Federal Reserve manipulates currency, and as stories of police abuse become more common, one can be forgiven for thinking that freedom is on the decline.
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Costa Mesa, California, 8 November 2014. This seminar examines the institutions of a stateless society and explore topics such as private defense, private police, privately produced money, the role of markets, and how stateless legal systems would work.
Mises Daily Thursday by Jörg Guido Hülsmann:
Our global system of fiat moneys favors spenders and borrowers over savers. Low- and moderate-income households who wish to save for the future are at the greatest disadvantage, and this has led to profound cultural changes over the past century.
Mises Institute President Jeff Deist will be featured on Power Trading Radio Friday afternoon at 6PM EST/3PM PST. The hosts will be taking questions from the audience who will be able to write in and call in.
Suicide Pact by Andrew P. Napolitano.
Judge, scholar, bestselling author, and Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew P. Napolitano is back with a shocking chronicle of America’s descent from a free society to a frightening surveillance state.
