Big Government

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005

The consequences of government control over such stock-market investments would be extremely grave, writes George Reisman. But there is another way.

How does any political movement that begins by being opposed to the state avoid being absorbed by the state? The most crucial step, writes Lew Rockwell, is to decide what you are for and what you are against from the very outset.

Thanks to a little-noticed item in Bush's budget, writes Joseph Potts, it won't just be Islamist suicide bombers whose families are limned and paid off for the death of their fighters.

European antitrust regulators have taken the worst of American antitrust "analysis," argues DT Armentano, and made it even worse.

The true state of the Union, writes DW MacKenzie, is that its chief executive fails to grasp the profound truth that central planning by political elites can never match the results of decentralized planning by the general public--even when it is done in the name of liberty.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.

Considering the state of public education, aren't vouchers a step in the right direction? Laurence Vance says no: vouchers will make the present system worse.

Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.

Serious thinkers have known for centuries that society is a complex, spontaneous order, which cannot be centrally directed at gunpoint.