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Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.
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The John and Barbara Nordstrom lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 27 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., and the presentation of the 2012 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of
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Carl Menger, from his classic treatise, on the origins of the means of payment. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy Lilley.
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Local government growth-management planning has been a bone of contention during debates in Nevada between Democratic gubernatorial candidates state Sen. Dina Titus and Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson. Titus championed a bill in the 1997 Legislature that would have limited development in Clark County. The measure, based upon restrictions used in
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The price of gold’s collapse of $44 one day last week prompted a quick call to Camino Coin. Sales on gold have been few and far between this year and the sudden move below $600 per ounce was too good of a buying opportunity to pass up. However, in addition to selling me cheaper insurance against the coming dollar collapse, my guy at Camino was
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[Doug French was a special guest lecturer at the 2006 Mises University . You can hear his informal talk, during an evening session, here .] Given the conditions here in Auburn, I think it appropriate that we honor a man who is critical to Mises University. A guy named Willis Haviland Carrier. No, he wasn’t an Austrian Economist, but he is
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Imagine an America when a writer occupied the rarified air in the public consciousness that movie stars and athletes do today. A man who believed first and foremost in freedom, writing: “I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty.” It was the 1920s and H.L. Mencken was both America’s
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Just what accounts for the people’s love affair with government? Make any attempt to discuss decreasing the amount of government (let alone eliminating it entirely) in our lives and people recoil in horror. “Well, what about roads? Don’t you think government is needed so we can have roads?” No. “OK, what about national defense? We need government
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[Book Review: The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen by Robert Epstein • Quill Driver Books • 2007 • 490 pages] In his book, Democracy: The God that Failed , Hans Hoppe argues that democracy and government have made people less farsighted and not as concerned with providing for ever-more-distant goals. Thus, society is