That’s the title of my latest LewRockwell.com article about the form of socialistic interventionism known as “apartheid” and Nelson Mandela’s role in opposing it.
Excerpted from Lecture 3 of Robert Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: Action and Exchange” , which is available as an independent study course. Sign up for Dr. Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: An Introduction to the Free Market” , which starts in January
That was the purpose of Lincoln’s nationalization of “Thanksgiving ,” which started out as a celebration by the Pilgrims of productivity and life, and later as a proclamation by George Washington to celebrate the ratification of the Constitution. That’s why we have such spectacles today as Jay Leno’s “all military audience” tonight, and what will
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Jeff Deist Joins the Mises Institute as its New President VIDEO: Obamacare and Interventionism with Peter Klein Mises: Like a Jiu-jitsu Master by Fernando Chiocca After the Taper: The Fed’s Non-Plan Is Unchanged by Frank Hollenbeck The Dao of the Austrian Investor by Mark Thornton No Cheerin’ for Yellen by John Cochran We Cannot Predict the
Ron Paul writes at the Ron Paul Institute: You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told us for years. The Iranian leadership is too fanatical, they are not rational actors, they are “not like us.” One US official even recently said that deception is part of the Iranian DNA. But just over a week ago negotiations between the five permanent
November 28 was the 119th anniversary of Henry Hazlitt’s birth. Hazlitt, once a member of the Mises Institute’s Board of Advisors, and a great financial benefactor to the Institute as well, is author of the ever-popular Economics in One Lesson . Here Bettina Bien Greaves discusses Hazlitt’s legacy: (Video Via EPJ
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, who in 2009 credited Ludwig von Mises as perhaps the most influential economist in his thinking, is profiled in the Orange County Register : “If,” he said, “you ask what the purpose of a doctor is, no one answers that question by saying, ‘Well, the purpose of doctors is to maximize profits,’” No, he continued,
The French-language site Contrepoints published Ludwig von Mises’s 1932 essa y “The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism” in French last week: De nos jours, un sentiment quasi universel veut que la crise économique des dernières années marque la fin du capitalisme. Ce dernier aurait échoué, dit-on. Il se serait révélé incapable de remplir son rôle
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