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Students share their experiences at Mises University.

A respect for property rights dictates that employment contracts can be renegotiated or bought out at any time.  That soldiers are expected to sign over their natural right to leave their job is, as Murray Rothbard notes, a type of slavery. 

Social democrats are so desperate to cast off limits on government that they'll embrace anything that justifies their ambitions. So they invent theories of money that are very, very wrong.  

In 1944, F.A. Hayek's best-selling book, The Road to Serfdom, warned the West that the "free" nations would lose their freedom as government expanded. He was right.

The US Justice Department on Monday

This year we're sharing Mises U students' perspectives as they go through the program. Here's what they had to say after the first day of lectures.

A couple of days ago, the New York Times published 

Rothbard on the American Revolution: "There was no particular need for the formal trappings and permanent investing of a centralized government, even for victory in war."

Forcing the minimum wage above the real market wage causes more unemployment. Small businesses suffer from these mandates as do the least productive workers. 

An immigration system based on sponsorship, bonding, and a reduction in the use of public resources would allow the private sector to play a bigger role in which immigrants come here, and which ones stay.