Originally produced by the Mises Institute in 1996, this popular documentary was translated and reproduced into Russian in 2007 by the Institute for Dissemination of Information on Social and Economic Science. This Russian version contains additional commentary at the 42:00
Voiceover: “The Federal Reserve System virtually controls the nation’s monetary system, yet it is accountable to no one. It has no budget; it is subject to no audit; and no Congressional Committee knows of, or can truly supervise, its operations.” These are the words of the late professor Murray N. Rothbard, economist and academic advisor of the
[This article is a translation of a 1959 interview in the Argentinian newspaper La Presna . It appears here in English for the first time, thanks to the Hayek Foundation.] Professor Ludwig von Mises Discusses Free Enterprise The Austrian-born North American economist, writer, and teacher, Ludwig von Mises, who, we are informed, arrived from New
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