Robert Batemarco

Articles

Sovereign Immunity Is Antilaw: The State Must Make Restitution to Its Victims

04/15/2022 Mises Wire Robert Batemarco

The doctrine of sovereign immunity is the antithesis of libertarianism. Immunity from the consequences of its actions makes the state (i.e., those who work for it) so very dangerous. A private party...

Anthony Fauci: Master of Medical Crony Capitalism

02/14/2022 Mises Wire Robert Batemarco

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Skyhorse Publishing, 2021; 449 pp. The Real Anthony Fauci is an iconoclastic...

Money, Subjective Value, and Gold

10/30/2014 Mises Daily Robert Batemarco

John Tamny, of Forbes magazine has written a recent article in which he takes Austrian economist David Gordon to task for not being Misesian enough in a book review of Money by Steve Forbes and...

Media

Sovereign Immunity Is Antilaw: The State Must Make Restitution to Its Victims

04/23/2022 Robert Batemarco

A libertarian view of the law by definition means that there can be no immunity from legal consequences. Anything else perverts the very meaning of law.

Anthony Fauci: Master of Medical Crony Capitalism

03/14/2022 Robert Batemarco

More than critiquing vaccines, this book exposes Anthony Fauci’s career as a case study in crony capitalism. The key players are the government regulatory agencies headed by Fauci.

Austrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier

09/02/2014 Robert Batemarco

Austrian economists have been wrongly accused of many intellectual crimes when it comes to fractional reserve banking. Robert Batemarco adds some clarity to the debate. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.