Don Boudreaux at Café Hayek highlighted yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article by Mary Anastasia O’Grady where she asks “What Really Drove the Children North”? Her answer, “Our appetite for drugs caused the violence that made life unbearable in much of Central America.” O’Grady, through Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly who now heads the U.S.

All Times Central Time:

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.—Monopoly, Competition, and Antitrust | DiLorenzo

2:45 - 3:45 p.m.—The Place of Finance and Financial Markets in a Free Society | Hülsmann

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.—The Economics of Fractional Reserve Banking | Herbener

Tuesday July 22 (Central Daylight Time) 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.—Entrepreneurship | Klein 10:15 - 11:15 a.m.—Calculation and Socialism | Salerno 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.—An Austrian Critique of Mainstream Economics | Block

Some images from Day2 of Mises U.

Roger Garrison:

Lucas Engelhardt:

Robert Higgs:

Jeffrey Herbener:

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano gave his first lecture in a series at Mises University on US Constitutional law.

Waiting as he’s introduced by Joseph Salerno:

Today is Bettina Bien Greaves’s 97th birthday. She was Mises’s personal assistant, and she’s still working to teach Austrian economics to new generations. The Mises Institute is honored by her support, as we are all honored to know her. What a great lady. (Thanks to Judy Thommesen)