Roots of the Social Security Myth
This is a concise critical history of the federal program of Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI), popularly known as Social Security.
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How PACs Control the Politicians
Recorded at the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on 9 October 1996.
The Social Security Scam
The Social Security system has run its course. It's unfair and it's economically destructive. It's time for the program to be abolished.
Obama to Government Motors: “Let’s Roll”
Freedom, choice, and capitalism will pay a dear price because a group of government bureaucrats, on the receiving end of political favors, will run a major sector of the US economy and foist a prescribed lifestyle upon American consumers.
The Humanitarian Face of the State, With Fangs
So long as Obama continues to expand the state in the domestic area — inflating, taxing, regulating, nationalizing — they will put up with abuses of the human rights that they claim to champion.
The Neoclassical Fallacy of Government as Deus ex Machina
Fortunately, Austrian economists have shown that every product and service can be offered privately, without the use of monopoly force through government.
Government: The Cause of—and Solution to—All Our Problems
Sometimes I wish our overlords would get their stories straight.
How Antitrust Ruined the Movies
This free-market system encouraged just the right mix of tradition and innovation.
Never-Ending Government Lies About Markets
This comprehensive list of the Fed's functions gives the lie to the notion that there has been "too little regulation" of financial markets. Anyone who makes such an argument is either ignorant of the truth or is lying.
Does GNP Measure Growth and Welfare?
The question posed by the title to this lecture raises a number of deep problems of economic science.
