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We at the Mises Institute wish all a happy Memorial Weekend, hopefully free from the horrors of the TSA. Regrettably, as Jeff Deist notes, the holiday is often used by politicians as an opportunity to “materialize at parades, picnics, and churches to give speeches about ‘freedom,’” unaware of how their own actions are a greater threat to it than any foreign entity in the world. It is capitalism that brings us peace and improves our lives. It is government power and those who cheer it that can destroy our lives. That can never be forgotten. No matter how entertaining this election season may be.

Memorial Day weekend is a time to reflect on war, rather than celebrate it. As such, on Mises Weekends we revisit an anti-war talk from our friend Tom Woods. Tom discusses how the late Murray Rothbard convinced him that peace and liberty cannot be severed, that empire abroad leads to socialism at home, and that foreign policy should be front and center in a libertarian worldview. And as Jeff Deist notes, Memorial Day should be free of political grandstanding — especially by those who don't understand what liberty really means.

The Mises Institute held a fantastic event last weekend at Town Hall Seattle, with over 350 attendees enjoying presentations by Dr. Walter Block, Tom Woods, Bob Murphy, our editor Ryan McMaken, and Jeff Deist. All videos from the event are now are available-- and be sure to join us later this year in Dallas, Asheville, NC, or Boston!

• The Greatest Myth by Jeff Deist
• Me, Bernie, and Minimum Wage by Walter Block
• Three Lies You’ll Hear from the Candidates This Year by Ryan McMaken
• Contra Krugman LIVE! with Tom Woods and Robert Murphy

And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire:

• The Case Against Legal Tender Laws by Murray N. Rothbard
• How to Make a Bl(UN)der Out of World Peace by Carmen Elena Dorobăț
• Overtime Regulations Disproportionately Harm Young People and Startups by Zachary Slayback
• Rothbard on Weld by David Gordon
• How Capitalism Improves the Welfare of All by Ludwig von Mises
• The Lens on Saturday's Mises Circle in Seattle by Ryan McMaken
• The Early History of Regulated Health Care by Michel Accad
• How the TSA Kills Hundreds of People Every Year by Joseph T. Salerno
• Brexit: The Movie Makes the Economic Case Against The EU by Ryan McMaken
• Why Most of Chicago's Banks Failed during the Great Depression: The Puzzle Resolved by Joseph T. Salerno
• The War on Cash is Ancient by Matthew McCaffrey
• Clinton Adviser, Nobel Prize Winning Economist Endorsed Venezuelan Socialism by Tho Bishop
• Bathrooms and Private Property by Patrick Barron
• The Task Confronting Libertarians by Henry Hazlitt
• A Guide to the Trump-Sanders Debate by Ryan McMaken
• Keynes Must Die by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
• Deist: "We Have to Decentralize"
• How the Census Bureau Invented "Hispanics" by Ryan McMaken
• What Would Ludwig von Mises Do in Venezuela? by Tho Bishop