The Liberalni Institut of Prague, The Czech Republic has placed their 2004 conference proceedings on-line in MP3 format. There are tons of great Austrian talks here including many by Mises Institute Scholars and alumni.
Last February, I predicted that Richard Scrushy would easily be convicted in his federal trial. However, today, a federal jury acquitted him of violating the evil Sarbanes-Oxley Act. From what I can tell, it seems to be a case of jury nullification.
In the wake of the Kelo vs. City of New London decision, Freestar Media Group has asked the City of Weare, New Hampshire to exercise eminent domain on their behalf. Specifically, Freestar has petitioned the city’s Board of Selectmen to use eminent domain to allow for the razing of Supreme Court Justice David Souter in order to make way for a hotel development.
Actual libertarian legal scholarship: N. Stephan Kinsella on “A Libertarian Defense of ‘Kelo’ and Limited Federal Power.”
Some students in Moscow do seem rather confused on Mises’s contribution. Says the Moscow Times: college students were asked the name of the author of “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism,” a work invented by George Orwell in 1984, his satirical masterpiece about the Stalinist Soviet Union. In a multiple choice quiz, all but one marked Ludwig von Mises. (The full Moscow Times article was available yesterday but only to subscribers today.)
Leaders of European Union member states have been reeling from the double rejection of the proposed European Constitution by two of the six founding members, the Netherlands and France. Given a chance to express their opinion on “ever closer union,” for the first time in over a decade and ever, respectively, French and Dutch voters spurned the controversial text against the wishes of their countries’ political, media and commercial elite.
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914) expressed concern that the interest rate might not get rid of its “moral shade” (”moralischer Schatten”).1 Indeed, people have actually been looking upon the interest rate phenomenon with animosity for centuries.
On two separate occasions in the last couple of weeks, people have asked me a familiar question: “In a system of ‘anarcho-capitalism’ or the free-market order, wouldn’t society degenerate into constant battles between private warlords?” Unfortunately I didn’t give adequate answers at the times, but I hope in this article to prove the adage that later is better than never.
Here is the news item (and MCC’s site too). Next can we expect Rothbard Securities, Menger Money Management, and the Boehm-Bawerk Hedge Fund?
