This is, very truly, one of the most interesting lectures I’ve ever heard. Perhaps it is not surprising that he draws from Misesian praxeology:

Yet another group embraces the free exchange of information. This is heroic. The open revolution is unstoppable; more and more people and groups are recognizing the distinction between information and scarce resources. Those who do not join us will be left in the dust.

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Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today: a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus.

Last Saturday (May 28) I delivered the speech “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” at the 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011). The video is here, and below; here is the powerpoint presentation (also embedded below).

With Friday’s dismal jobs report — showing a paltry 54,000 increase in nonfarm payroll employment in May — more and more analysts are realizing that the so-called economic “recovery” is stalling. As Jeffrey Tucker recently pointed out in an important article, Austrians realize that the recession never left. This has all been smoke and mirrors for the last two years.

Jeff’s post below inspired some lively discussion. I think that those who Steve Horwitz calls “one-drop libertarians”–those for whom a single drop of association with the state is cause for immediate dismissal of anything that is otherwise a manifestation of free market forces–are missing the point in a couple of ways.

They didn’t listen then. But maybe they’ll listen now. We need monetary freedom more than anything else.