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I saw two movies this week, each anti-government in its own way: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the Simpsons. The Harry Potter movie was more sophisticated and provided a wonderful look at the nature of bureaucracy, with the Ministry of Magic, driven by the usual fear and ignorance, taking over Hogwarts and wrecking the place with

The wicked French teen had translated and posted Harry Potter .

“The concept of this time-traveling musical satire — the Wal-Martization of the world — seems tired on arrival,” says this review of Walmartopia .

David Veksler, mises.org developer, made this really snappy word cloud of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism.

Cook spends night in jail for oversalting a policeman’s hamburger.

It’s here , if you don’t mind paying $5 more and waiting 4-6 weeks (that time should shorten in a few weeks from now). For some international customers, however, Amazon beats Mises.org for shipping

The CPI release this month features its usual aggregation and concludes that prices are rising 5% per annum. But take a look at specifics. If your main thing is driving around and burning fossil fuels, your compounded annual rate of price inflation over three months is a whopping and devastating 32%. However, if your main thing is buying clothes

For subscribers, here’s the link : He was already immersed in reading the economics books that would change his life. Americans know the “Austrian school,” if at all, from the work of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, two economists who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and whose free-market doctrines helped inspire the conservative movement in the

Somehow I can’t stop watching this

Declan McCullagh writes of the growing sense that Google will become the target of antitrust intervention. For the primer on why such attacks are unnecessary and destructive, see Armentano’s little book on antitrust