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Andy Sirkis: Japanese people and government officials are well aware of the problem.  People fret and say that “something needs to be done”, but there is little analysis of the disastrous economic and geopolitical effects and no analysis of the causes and potential solutions.  People really have their heads buried in the sand, perhaps because they think it’s going to be someone else’s problem when the country’s population falls from 125 million to 85 million and half of the remaining people are elderly.

Professional soccer can only rival Major League Baseball or the NFL when it comes to corruption and socialism. 

The Institute of Economic Affairs has published a useful review

H.K. Asser recognized Bastiat's place within the Austrian School in 1893. 

Lew Rockwell explains what to expect during this next election season. Hint: It's like every other election season. 

A much-neglected book on the history of the state and its development is Hendryk Spruyt's The Sovereign State and Its Competitors.

As I reported recently, banks are beginning to collaborate in the campaign by governments to

From Power Trading Radio: "Merlin and John welcome back Joe Salerno for a look at the war on cash. Why would this be happening, and what are the opportunities in alternative currencies?" 

I’d like to think Mises would have spared a few minutes of his precious time “exploding the fallacy”—an often used expression in his writings—of Bernanke’s most recent musings.

In this podcast, Ron Paul talks to Lew Rockwell about the War on Cash, the Trans Pacific Partnership, ISIS, and endless war.