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81 years ago. The federal government may one day take notice. Most of the US Constitution is anti-libertarian and designed to extract more taxes and centralize political power. Some of the Amendments, however, are quite pro-freedom, including, of course, the first ten amendments, but we should also mention the 21st amendment, which repealed
Mises Daily Thursday: Cryptocurrencies and a Wider Regression Theorem If cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are being used as money, and if Carl Menger correctly tells us that money must have some kind of antecedent value, then as economists it becomes our job to discover what exactly is that antecedent
This week’s internet-fueled Outrage of the Week is the case of Harvard attorney Ben Edelman who has insisted on “notifying the authorities” to punish a small restaurant for “overcharging” the professor to the tune of four dollars. Boston.com reported on the case, posting the full email exchange . Now, the professor has received the sort of
Today’s USA Today includes a Q and A about falling oil prices: A: Oil prices are collapsing. Consumers are pouring less of their money into their gas tanks. That should be good for the economy and stocks, right? Not exactly. The stock market is struggling this month as the decline in oil prices intensifies. There are several reasons for this.
Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon: Thinkers Who Challenged the State This essay is adapted from David Gordon’s talk at the Costa Mesa Mises Circle . Click here to register for January’s Houston Mises
Mises Daily Friday : Government Save Us From “Overpriced” Chinese Food If a customer consents to paying a certain price at the time of purchase, he cannot later claim that he was overcharged. The fact that he was charged the right amount is clear in the fact that he consented to the purchase in the first
These were the most-read Mises Daily articles during the month of May 2015: 1. Financial Warfare and the Declining Dollar by Ryan McMaken 2. Seven Changes Needed in Ferguson and Baltimore Right Now by Mark Thornton 3. Why Do We Celebrate Rising Home Prices? by Ryan McMaken 4. How Government Inaction Ended the Depression of 1921 by Lew Rockwell
Lew Rockwell explains what to expect during this next election season. Hint: It’s like every other election season: Students in the state’s official propaganda institutions learn about the wonders of the democratic process, so called, throughout their years of formal study. But the truth is on full display during a presidential election season.
A much-neglected book on the history of the state and its development is Hendryk Spruyt’s The Sovereign State and Its Competitors . While many writers on the state have noted the coercive nature of states, few have taken the time to really explore the distinctions between the type of civil government known as “ a state ” and other types of civil
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