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Mark Thornton encourages you to join the Mises Institute.

In January 2014, 33 Russian rubles exchanged for 1 dollar. In December 2014, the amount has more than doubled, reaching 77.2 rubles per dollar. At the bottom of it lie the actions of the Bank of Russia. 

Call for Papers for a special issue on "Business Management and Austrian Economics" in the journal BFuP - Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis.

Nebraska and Oklahoma think Colorado has entirely too much freedom, and they aim to put a stop to it in the federal courts. 

There's a new mini-reivew of Hoppe's new book at Target Liberty.

"What Michael did was the exception, not the rule. He didn't have to do this."

The George Stinney case: racism can explain why the jury would want to convict a black person, but only a deplorable pro-government bias explains why they so easily convicted this particular black person. 

US National Debt now exceeds $18 Trillion with no end in sight. Will we see national default on the debt or hyperinflation?

Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.

Since neither Left nor Right have a serious answer to police malfeasance, we asked the inimitable Bob Murphy to join us and make sense of how private defense agencies might work in an anarcho-capitalist society.