On Mises Weekends , this week, Jeff Deist joins Andy Duncan of the Fin Tales podcast to talk about next week’s Presidential election. Going beyond the electoral horse race, Jeff and Andy also discuss the impact each candidate could have on the Federal Reserve, gold prices, and US foreign
Jeff Deist and Andy Duncan discuss the rise of UKIP in England, and whether it represents a real populist anti-state uprising or just rightist politics. Andy skewers the strutting political class in London, and the charade of voting Labour or Conservative based on minute policy differences. They also discuss the upcoming Scottish independence
The Human Action Podcast reviews another overlooked classic by Mises: The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality . This book takes no prisoners, showing how envy motivates progressive and conservative intellectuals who fear dynamic capitalism. The real reactionaries, according to Mises? Socialists who want to keep everyone stuck at one station in life. Our
Pictures of the Socialistic Future • Eugen Richter • Trans. Henry Wright • LvMI, 2010 • 160 pages. This review originally appeared on CobdenCentre.org . If someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, then in the words of Private James Frazer , from Dad’s Army , I would now be an
Ethics of Money Production • By Jörg Guido Hülsmann • Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute • Xi + 280 pages. In these times of Robert Zoellick , the president of the World Bank, calling for a return to the gold standard, it becomes necessary for us to examine whether we can trust a nascent world government to provide us with sound money and an
The world center of gravity of the Austrian-economics movement has long been the United States, especially since Ludwig von Mises arrived there on August the 3rd, at the age of 58, in a turbulent 1940. The 1998 Spanish publication of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles , by Jesús Huerta de Soto — followed by the English translation in 2006 —
[The Cobden Centre, May 2, 2011] If you believe in a Creator, then you must acknowledge that He (or She) possesses an incredible sense of humor. Without this, how do you explain Iceland? Fortunately for us, and particularly perhaps for the Irish, the Greeks, and the Portuguese, this deific challenge is detailed gloriously in the new book, Deep
Originally published by the Cobden Centre, May 12, 2011 The remarkable thing about being an aspiring Rothbardian is that no matter how much Rothbard you read, the next virgin Rothbard book on your reading list is always a superb surprise. The twists and the turns on the route are remarkable, though they are almost always consistently within the
The Cobden Centre, May 16, 2011. When the bestriding colossus Murray N. Rothbard departed this life, he left the rest of us with the hallowed gifts of his thoughts, his books, and his ideas (as well as an occasional secret desire to wear bow ties), and the happily reverberating sound of that anarchic cackle. However, to those few — those lucky few
The Mystery of Banking • By Murray N. Rothbard • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008 • 298 pages. This review was first published at the Cobden Centre. If What Has Government Done To Our Money? is an hors d’oeuvre, then The Mystery of Banking is the main appetizer in our quest to understand how the current global financial crisis arose. Far meatier
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