Audio files from all lectures at Saturday’s Mises Circle “Breaking Away: The Case For Secession” are now on Mises.org, iTunesU, and SoundCloud. 

Here are some first photos from Saturday’s Mises Circle which had even larger attendance than last year’s Houston circle with  400 people in attendance including 71 students representing 37 colleges, high schools, and home schools.

One of the great debates today between left and right is whether government stimulus is worth it. The left says “yes, early and often.” And the right says “only in the right circumstances.” Unsurprisingly, both left and right are completely off — stimulus is the quickest way to impoverish an economy.

To see why, we’ll start with America’s most famous burglar, Richard Nixon.

Richard Ebeling covers the ECB’s latest move to achieve propserity via money creation, while combatting the presumed menace of deflation: 

Bloomberg reports that the yield on more than $4 trilllion of sovereign debt has turned negative.  Investors are now paying the Swiss government to borrow from them for longer than a decade and paying the German government to borrow for a lustrum.  For all Euro-area nations, according to Bloomberg calculations, average yields on sovereign debt are now at 0.68%.

While Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Jeff Deist, and Brion McClanahan spoke at length on secession as a tactic in weakening the power of the state, what really worried the