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Ernest Borgnine, who died yesterday, said this in an interview in 1998 (h/t Justin Ptak):

An amusing thing about Friedmanite positivism is its remarkable naïveté about how empirical social science research is actually done.

“A social system based on this natural position regarding the assignment of property rights is, and will from now on be called, pure capi

“The theory involves a conceptual conflation of democracy and liberty (freedom) that can only be called scandalous, especially coming from se

Estonia is home to the latest Mises Institute (mises.ee).

From Paul Vahur, executive director, of Mises Institute Estonia:

The ECB has once again come to the rescue by cutting interest rates in order to forestall a collapse of the European economy.

“By such words, Hydarnes, you give us no good counsel,” replied the Lacedaemonians, “because you have experienced merely the adva

Oral Argument at Hearing entitled “Fractional Reserve Banking and the Federal Reserve: The Economic Consequences of High-Powered Money”

I was in Washington on what was an historic day, June 28, 2012 to testify

“There is no class that could champion liberalism for its own selfish interests to the detriment of the whole of society and the other strata