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Our guest on Mises Weekends this week is uniquely qualified to discuss modern progressives from a libertarian perspective. Jim Ostrowski, whom Murray Rothbard called "one of the finest people in the libertarian movement," is a lawyer, writer, activist, and chronicler of progressive dysfunction in his native New York. He's the author of Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America, which explains progressivism more as personal psychology than a coherent view of the world. If you're interested in how progressives managed to capture the 20th century, stay tuned.

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Today is the 116th anniversary of Hayek's birthday. Peter Klein summarizes his contributions in under 4 minutes here. Also, it's 20% off all Hayek books and memorabilia in the Mises store. 

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 April 2014. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 April 2014. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 April 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 April 2014. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist.

Fearing it might some day compete against the World Bank and IMF, the US has been staunchly against China's AIIB. 

"Financial Repression is the name we give to all the different government interventions in which governments seek to improve their own bargaining position with financial markets."

All the named lectures from this year's Austrian Economics Research Conference

The weak dollar was a subsidy for the oil industry, but as Hazlitt noted, they make “the industries in which we are comparatively inefficient larger, and the industries in which we are comparatively efficient smaller.”