Adele Mises Remembers . . .

A Day in the House of My Parents

(Mrs. Adele Mises dictated her reminiscences to a relative around 1929. Born in 1858, she was a granddaughter of Moses Kallir, grandniece of Mayer Kallir, prominent citizens of Brody, a city then in Austrian Galicia, now in Ukraine.)

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As you may have heard, New York Senator Charles Schumer is on a campaign to slap a 27.5% tariff on all Chinese goods unless they significantly revalue or float the yuan. But he denies being a protectionist. No, you see he merely claims to be opposed to currency manipulation. His threat of tariffs are meant to force the Chinese to end their currency manipulation.

Today, December 5, marks the birthday of Rose Wilder Lane (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) born 1886 and died 1968. She was one of the last century’s most ardent defenders of American freedoms. In books such as The Discovery of Freedom (one of the top 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century in a readers’ poll) and Give Me Liberty, which laid out her conversion from socialism based on her experience in such a regime, she asserted the supreme importance of individual liberty.

The immigration issue is heating up in all parts of the world, and libertarians have a major contribution to make to the debate, writes Per Bylund.

by Larry Sechrest

It seems that many pundits believe that at any given time, at least one half of the world’s population should be in moderate fear of US bombing campaigns. Besides North Korea and the entire Middle East, China has of late been the object of growing hostility.

The tough talk passed a qualitative boundary over Thanksgiving weekend when analysts on the Fox network shows said that China’s policies are a threat not merely to the US economy, but indeed to our national security.

Johan Ridenfeldt has kindly sent me some early Swedish encyclopedia entries on Gustave de Molinari (founder of free-market anarchism), along with his translations. I’ve posted them on the Molinari site.

I love the description of Molinari as “the law of supply and demand made into man”!

The government has graciously decided to allow people to carry nail clippers and thread scissors on airplanes. Whoo hoo!

So says “The Uneasy Case for Higher Gasoline Taxes“ by Ian Parry in the Milken Review. The idea is that taxes on gasoline as such only leads people to buy smaller cars with better gas mileage, whereas what we really need is far less driving as such.