The Influence and Origins of FDR
Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today: a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus.
Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions
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).
A Primer on the Never-Ending Bust
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.
The Trojan Horse of “Happiness Research”
Now that governments supposedly know with “scientific certainty” what constitutes “happiness,” there can be no argument (or so they think) against virtually unlimited government intervention in the name of creating happiness. Target: affluence.
Against A Ruthless Libertarian Criticism of Everything Existing
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.
The Anarchist Conscience
Libertarians in their teens and twenties could do far worse than to let their own attention be captured by Gary Chartier’s book.
Did the Recession Ever Really Go Away?
Housing prices hitting 2002 levels, unemployment still at 9 percent, private-sector job growth flat, and retail sales still struggling: these are headlines that few expected three years ago. The stimulus was a gigantic, wasteful, destructive flop.
Dr. Paul’s Case for Gold
They didn’t listen then. But maybe they’ll listen now. We need monetary freedom more than anything else.
Taki on Hoppe and the Austrians
An interesting article from Taki about the writer’s time with Hoppe and the Property and Freedom Society.
What Mises Can Teach the Quants
If Ludwig von Mises were alive today, he probably would not have been in the least surprised that the quants’ methods ultimately bore such bitter fruit.
