N.J. Hoffer sent in this incredibly fascinating story of a Fed crackdown on a group called NORFED that markets the Liberty Dollar. Now, I’ve never been much for these attempts to create an alternative money. They seem to falter on the problem highlighted by Mises, namely, that the money used in a society emerges from exchange of commodities, and
This is a fun letter to The Business : Although I have been an occasional reader of The Business (mostly due to having two young children that leave me little time to sit and read a Sunday newspaper in an enjoyable manner), I thought I would write to let you know you now have one additional committed weekly reader. I have become disillusioned with
This past spring I pointed to a large visual aid that illustrates the budgets each agency receives. The new 2007 edition has just been released and it lives up to its predecessor. And while the data will not be a surprise to readers of Mises.org, the fact that roughly 2/3 of the $1 trillion dollar discretionary budget goes to military related
Hungarian prime minister admits on tape that the government “lied morning, evening, and night” to win the April election. In other news, a dog barked, a cat meowed, and bird chirped.
Odds are that you have never heard of this book, much less own it, for it is exceedingly rare and I’ve hardly ever seen a mention of it, though it is just brilliant. It is The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue , by Henry Hazlitt. It is now available for free download or in print on demand . (And it was a big sacrifice to give up my personal copy
The first thing to say about The Menace of the Herd (1943), now available in PDF and in Print on Demand , is that it is no longer $500 as it is on Amazon. Second, it is not by “Francis Stuart Campbell” but rather Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Third, the author has to be one of the most impossible men of the 20th century: impossible in the
George Will writes a commentary on the prospect of a presidential bid by Ron Paul, and here is a commentary on Will that attacks Will’s insinuation that Paul is a eccentric out of touch with the glorious modern world of the Leviathan state. Will has always been a big-government man — Straussian links of some sort — but, more importantly, he is
Wii is wrecking children’s lives ! And before that, it was video games, and before that TV, and before that radio, then movies, then cars, and if you go back far enough you can find Victorians railing against the outrage that kids were wasting all their time reading that new innovation, mass-produced
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