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He is pretty old in 1969 but it is wonderful to hear his voice and he still seems sharp as a tack. Thank you to Bettina Bien Greaves for this rare tape. Listen .

Victory for the idea that free downloads and purchased hard copy can be complements and not always substitutes. NYT : “In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay,

Second Life Blog : “As of January 22, 2008, it will be prohibited to offer interest or any direct return on an investment (whether in L$ or other currency) from any object, such as an ATM, located in Second Life, without proof of an applicable government registration statement or financial institution charter. We’re implementing this policy after

Marketwatch quotes Bernanke on a new benchmark: “We will not let prices fall at 10% a year.” Good thing he hasn’t been running the computer industry for the last 15 years.

Paul Mladjenovic, who wrote Stock Investing for Dummies , among other books, called to ask permission to hand out some Mises Institute materials. Turns out that he is devoted to our podcasts and books and things and follows the Austrian School closely, considering himself an adherent. Very

It’s interesting how during a bust, the Austrian School suddenly gains greater prominence and people act as if the Austrians are just another player in the mainstream (which isn’t really true as much as we might like it to be). Here is a recent case of this: Andy Laperreire in the WSJ : The Fed’s loose monetary policy has hurt the average

The Italian translation of my book The Church and the Market   has just been published. It features an excellent introduction (some 36 pages long!) by the great Carlo Lottieri . The Polish translation is here , and a Spanish translation is completed and awaiting publication. The book’s thesis is discussed in my Lou Church Memorial Lecture from

Just in case you might think that the curbing of free enterprise and individual rights is something new in American history, someone just sent me a headline from the New York Times dated May 30, 1918 . “Navy Man Indicted for Food Hoarding.” It reads as follows: Indictments were returned by a Federal Grand Jury here today against Medical Director

Here we get the news : “The Baghdad military command said Tuesday that unauthorized vehicles and motorcycles will be banned in the capital from 5 a.m. to midnight Wednesday. The vehicle ban is aimed at preventing violence on the fifth anniversary of the capture of Baghdad by U.S. troops about a month after the war started.... The boom of

A very impressive beta release, which runs stable with all plugins on my machine.