The US Invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003. Since 2003, the United States took Iraq which was a dirt poor oppressive but secular authoritarian country where many religions were tolerated, and which posed no threat whatsoever to the United States; and turned Iraq into a much poorer basketcase of a country ruled by an authoritarian Islamist
Since large banks are more or less adjuncts of the federal government that live off the sweat of taxpayers, all the while whining about how tough they have it, who can be surprised that large banks like Wells Fargo have been enthusiastic in their efforts to crush clients who dare do business with legal cannabis merchants? Notes the Denver Post:
“ 180 Trillion Leisure Hours Lost To Work Last Year, “ says The Onion. The article actually presents some fundamental problems of scarcity in rather interesting ways. Why do we only think in terms of work-hours lost? Probably because that’s what the organizations who fund such studies care about, but in future, it’s not too difficult to imagine a
Reader “Albert Nock” was kind enough to send me notice of some new research on violence on the American frontier. This relates back to an article I wrote for Mises.org in 2004 and to extensive work done by Terry Anderson and Peter Hill (including an article in the JLS). There is also a chapter on the topic in Thomas Woods’ latest book . The
Today at The Street , Dana Blankenhorn writes that you shouldn’t let the Austrians at the Mises Institute harsh your buzz. Blankenhorn implores his readers to “Ignore The Doomsday Chorus” and observes: What most of today’s Doomsday Chorus has in common is a devotion to libertarianism and to Austrian Economics, which holds that there are absolute
Mercy for drug addicts is incompatible with the drug war. Well, he didn’t actually say to throw them in cages, but his You wouldn’t know it In his latest embrace of authoritarian government, as a follow-up to his position that private property should be redistributed at gunpoint, Pope Francis has announced this his position is
Ben Wiegold writes in Mises Daily Monday : The Federal Reserve System turned 100 years old last December and Fed supporters have been celebrating ever since. In recent months, the Dallas Fed opened an historical exhibit, the Kansas City Fed released a documentary, and the New York Fed even started a Facebook page, all to commemorate the
The fact that opponents of private property rights have managed to frame the debate over health care mandates as some sort of religious issue is one of the great public relations coups of our time. Note below the top of a full page ad in the New York Times taken out by a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation. After approvingly quoting
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