Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Higgs

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Welcome back to the series, Perspectives on Peace, hosted by Chris Coyne. The first four episodes of this series will focus on The Legacy of Robert Higgs (Mercatus Center, 2024) and will feature a collection of short interviews with many of the chapter authors.This episode focuses on state power, peaceful cooperation, and the regime uncertainty of Robert Higgs, featuring authors Ed Stringham on “Two Paths toward Anarcho-pacifism: Lessons from Christianity and Modern Economics”, and Don Boudreaux on “Regime Uncertainty and Market Uncertainty.” In their conversations, the authors explain their motives for writing and summarize their respective chapters.Edward P. Stringham is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise at Trinity College. Ed is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.Donald J. Boudreaux is a Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Professor of Economics at George Mason University.Learn more about Chris Coyne's work as Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is streaming! Subscribe today and listen to seasons one and two.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

Welcome back to the series, Perspectives on Peace, hosted by Chris Coyne. The first four episodes of this series will focus on The Legacy of Robert Higgs (Mercatus Center, 2024) and will feature a collection of short interviews with many of the chapter authors.This episode focuses on the military and health industrial complexes of Robert Higgs, featuring authors Nathan Goodman on “The Military-­Industrial Complex and the Militarization of Society”, Raymond March on “What About the Healthcare State? Robert Higgs's Contribution to Health Economics”, and Yuliya Yatsyshina on “The War Industry as Economic Cancer.” In their conversations, the authors share the impact Robert Higgs has had on their life and career and dive into a short summary of their respective chapters.Nathan P. Goodman is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Nathan is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.Raymond J. March is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Angelo State University.Yuliya Yatsyshina is an Associate Program Director for Academic & Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Yuliya is an alum of the Mercatus MA Fellowship.Learn more about Chris Coyne's work as Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is streaming! Subscribe today and listen to seasons one and two.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

For NSP 61 we spoke with Christopher Coyne about the economics or warmaking. We also discussed the boomerang effect, pacifism, revolution, and libertarian anarchism. Christopher J. Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and the Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) through the Hayek Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and a Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Coyne serves as the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and of The Independent Review. Chris is the editor of The Legacy of Robert Higgs (2024, Mercatus Center), and the author or co-author of How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite (2024, Independent Institute), In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (2022, Independent Institute), Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror (2021, Stanford University Press), Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism (2018, Stanford University Press), and many more. Links: Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace https://www.stablepeace.com F. A. Hayek Program https://www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram How To Run Wars book https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=145 The Legacy of Robert Higgs book https://www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram/research/books/legacy-robert-higgs Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social As well as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X/Twitter. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://x.com/LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

Welcome back to the series, Perspectives on Peace, hosted by Chris Coyne. The first four episodes of this series will focus on The Legacy of Robert Higgs (Mercatus Center, 2024) and will feature a collection of short interviews with many of the chapter authors.This episode focuses on the Ratchet Effect of Robert Higgs, featuring authors Abigail Hall on “Ideology, Crisis, and the Ratchet Effect: Retrospect and Prospects”, Jayme Lemke on “The Origins and Persistence of Discriminatory Institutions and Ideologies”, and Anthony Gregory on “The History, Ideology, and Shape of Leviathan: Researching the American State's Ratchet Effect, Growth, and Transformation.” In their conversations, the authors share the impact Robert Higgs has had on their life and career and dive into a short summary of their respective chapters.Abigail R. Hall is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa. Abby is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.Jayme Lemke is a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Jayme is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.Anthony Gregory is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.Learn more about Chris Coyne's work as Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is streaming! Subscribe today and listen to seasons one and two.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

Welcome to the series, Perspectives on Peace, hosted by Chris Coyne. The first four episodes of this series will focus on The Legacy of Robert Higgs (Mercatus, 2024) and will feature a collection of short interviews with many of the chapter authors.On this episode, Chris Coyne and Don Boudreaux discuss the life and legacy of Robert Higgs as featured in the newly published edited volume, The Legacy of Robert Higgs (Mercatus Center, 2024). Coyne and Boudreaux emphasize Higgs' work as an economist and economic historian, especially his influence on understanding economic history and the relationship between markets and political systems.Boudreaux shares personal anecdotes about his friendship with Higgs and highlights the key works that have shaped Higgs' legacy, including Crisis and Leviathan and Competition and Coercion. They discuss his understanding of the 19th and 20th century American economy, his role in the development of “The Independent Review,” his arguments for maintaining skepticism about government power, and more.Donald J. Boudreaux is a Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Professor of Economics at George Mason University.Learn more about Chris Coyne's work as Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is streaming! Subscribe today and listen to seasons one and two.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

President of the Mises Institute and author of “How Capitalism Saved America”, Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo joins us to uncover the current state of capitalism and if it still exists in America. Earlier in the episode, Keith discusses the inaccuracy of economic predictions, citing examples like the 2023 recession that never happened, the negative impact of misinformed predictions on investment decisions and business growth.  Persistent housing price crash predictions have been consistently wrong despite global pandemics and higher mortgage rates. Dr. DiLorenzo advocates for #EndTheFed to reduce inflation and restore free market principles. Learn how voluntary exchange between buyer and seller through market prices communicates information and influences production. Resources: Learn more about Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises through visiting mises.org  Show Notes: GetRichEducation.com/521 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE  or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments.  You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review”  GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREmarketplace.com/Coach Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript:   Automatically Transcribed With Otter.ai     Keith Weinhold  00:00 Keith, welcome to GRE. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, reviewing some terrible economic predictions and why it matters to you. Then the President of the Mises Institute joins us. Does capitalism still exist in the US and what would happen if we ended the Fed, today on get rich education.   00:24 Since 2014 the powerful get rich education podcast has created more passive income for people than nearly any other show in the world. This show teaches you how to earn strong returns from passive real estate investing in the best markets without losing your time being a flipper or landlord. Show Host Keith Weinhold writes for both Forbes and Rich Dad advisors, who delivers a new show every week since 2014 there's been millions of listener downloads of 188 world nations. He has a list show. Guess who? Top Selling personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki, get rich education can be heard on every podcast platform, plus it has its own dedicated Apple and Android listener phone apps build wealth on the go with the get rich education podcast. Sign up now for the get rich education podcast, or visit getricheducation.com   Corey Coates  01:09 You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education.   Keith Weinhold  01:25 welcome to GRE from Syracuse, Sicily to Syracuse, New York, and across 188 nations worldwide, you're listening to one of the longest running and most listened to shows on real estate investing. This is Get Rich Education. I'm your host, Keith Weinhold, now a lot of media companies and pundits and influencers like to make predictions. Listeners like learning about predictions and by engaging just a little of that each of the past few years on one of the last episodes of the year. Here, I forecast the national home price appreciation rate for the following year, many media outlets, pundits and influencers have made terrible, just absolutely terrible, predictions about interest rates and other financial forecasts. Last year, a majority of Pro prognosticators firmly forecast six or eight Fed rate cuts this year, for example, well, we're going to have far fewer, and that's because high inflation kept hanging around. Then there's the 2023 recession that never happened, yet both Bloomberg and the economist actually published some rather ignominious headlines, as it turned out, they published these in the fall of 2022 Bloomberg, big headline was forecast for us, recession within year hits 100% in blow to Biden, well, That was false. That didn't come true. I mean, 100% that doesn't leave you any room for an out. And then also published in the fall of 2022 The Economist ran this headline why a global recession is inevitable in 2023 All right, well, they both believed in a recession, and they believed in it so deeply that it got fossilized. Well, an economic archeologist like me dug it up.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  03:31 We are going to die   Keith Weinhold  03:35 well, but I didn't risk my life like Indiana Jones did there. This archeology, it only involves some Google searches. Well, here's the thing. What's remarkable about America staving off a mammoth recession and leaving all the other g7 nations in the economic dust is the fact that merely predicting a recession often makes it come true. Just predicting one often turns a recession into a self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah, recession forecast headlines alone, they can spook employers from making new hires and slow down manufacturing, and it can also disillusion real estate investors from expanding their portfolios. Well, the US economy grew anyway, besides the farcical prognostications about myriad interest rate cuts in a quote, unquote definite 2023 recession that never happened. You know, there's also a third forecast that so many got wrong. And you probably know what I'm gonna say. I've brought it up before, because this hits our world, those erstwhile and well still ever present housing price crash predictions. I mean this facet of the gloom boom really ramped up from 2020 One until today, even a global pandemic, new wars and a triplicate mortgage rates couldn't stop the housing price surge and the rent surge. A lot of doomsdayers just couldn't see, or they didn't even want to see that a housing shortage would keep prices afloat. They didn't want to see it because they get more clicks when they talk about the gloom government stimulus programs also buoyed prices, and deep homeowner equity cushions will still keep prices afloat. Ever since 2021 here on the show, I've used that rationale and more to explain that home prices would keep appreciating, but that the rate of appreciation would slow down, and it has slowed down since 2021 see YouTubers tick tockers. They notoriously use woe begone housing crash headlines, because that gets more clicks and then some of the rationale behind this. The reasoning is just dreadful, like, what goes up must come down, all right? Well, this is like, why does it matter? Who cares about wrong predictions anyway? What's the point? Well, people become misinformed. People waste their time on these things and see no one loses money on dismal economic predictions. But the damage is done, because when investors don't act well, then they didn't get the gain that they should have had. Businesses didn't get the gain that they should have had when they could have made new investment and hired new employees sooner. And of course, a recession is going to happen sometime. They occur, on average, every five to six years. It is just a normal part of the business cycle will collectively these three faulty economic predictions, rate cuts, a recession and a housing price crash. I think if you bundle them all up combined, it could be as bad as one doomsday prediction about worldwide starvation or the Mayan apocalypse. Remember that the wide to K bug, the acid rain, even that the internet is just a fad that ran a buck 30 years ago. World War Three is eminent, robots overtaking humans, or how about running out of crude oil. I mean, we're definitely all supposed to have jet packs in flying cars by now, right? But yet, did anyone have the clairvoyance to predict the stock market crash of 1929 or September 11 terrorist attacks, or Trump's surprise, 2016 presidency or Bitcoin hitting 70k A while back, or the coronavirus. So really, overall, the bottom line here with predictions is that no one knows the future. Control what you can maintain equanimity, add good properties, gradually raise rent, reduce expenses, create leverage and expect inflation truly the best way to predict the future is to create it in just that way. Well is the USA capitalistic nation today. That's what we'll discuss later with this week's guest. When Chuck Todd hosted the show Meet the Press, he interviewed AOC about this. Yes, I'm talking about us. House Rep from New York, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, what she say? You   08:34 have said you are democratic socialist. Can you be a Democratic socialist and a capitalist? Well, I think it depends on your interpretation. So there are some Democratic socialists that would say, Absolutely not. There are other people that are democratic socialists that would say, I think it's possible. What are you? I think it's possible. I think you say to yourself, I'm a capitalist, but I don't say that. You know, if anything, I would say, I'm I believe in a democratic economy, but.   Keith Weinhold  09:03 okay, well, I'm not sure if that clears it up at all. And I've listened to more of that clip, and it just makes things more confusing. But I think that most people have trouble drawing a line between capitalism and neighboring economic systems. Where exactly do you draw that line? I don't know exactly where to draw it. When I think of capitalism, I think of things though, like removal of interventionist central planning and allowing the free market to run with few guardrails. And then there's an issue like labor unionization. I don't really know about something like that. This is a real estate show. I'm still forming an opinion on a topic like that. In you know, some of this gets political, and that's beyond the scope of get rich education. The Fed was created in 1913 that central planning, its central banking from 1987 to. 2006 Alan Greenspan reigned as Fed chair. Those were his years, and he became even more interventionist. And then his successor, Ben Bernanke, maybe even more so with quantitative easing and such. Let's talk about, should they end the Fed and capitalism with this week's expert guest. You very well may have heard of the late, famed Austrian American economist Ludwig von Mises today, the Mises Institute carries on his legacy, and this week's guest is none other than the President of the Mises Institute. He's also the number one best selling author of how capitalism saved America and his newer book with a title that I love, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics. Hey, it's great to have you here. It is. Dr Thomas DiLorenzo.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  11:00 pleased to be with you. Thanks for having me.Th   Keith Weinhold  11:02 Well, Dr DiLorenzo, for those that don't know, just tell us a bit in an overview about Austrian economics and what Ludwig von Mises stood for.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  11:02 Well, Ludwig von Mises was the preeminent critic of socialism and fascism in Europe, and in his day, he fled the Nazis literally hours before the Gestapo broke into his apartment in Geneva, because he was the preeminent critic of fascism and socialism, and he was also Jewish, and so he had to get out of town. And he miraculously ended up after wandering through Europe with his wife in New York City, and he taught at New York University for many years, until he died in 1973 and but the Austrian School of Economics is a school of thought. It has nothing to do with, necessarily, with the Government of Austria, the country of Austria, just this the founder of a man named Carl Menger happened to be from Austria, but probably the most famous or well known among Americans would be Friedrich Hayek, who won the Nobel Prize in 1970s he was a student of Ludwig von Mises and critics of interventionism, critics of socialism. We teach about free markets, of how markets actually work and how governments don't work. And that's in a nutshell, that's what it's about. And you could check out our website, mises.org, M, I, S, E, S.org, you can get a great economic education. We have a lot of free books to download. Some of them are downloaded 30 or 40,000 times a month. Still, it's even Mises old books like human action, first published in the 1960s and so you can get a great education just by reading our website.   Keith Weinhold  12:42 Well, congratulations, that's proof that you're doing an excellent job of carrying on the Mises legacy into the present day, a lot of which is championing capitalism. Do we have capitalism in the United States today?   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  12:59 I was an economics professor from 40 years before I got this job as President of the Mises Institute. And I used to say we had islands of socialism in a sea of capitalism at the beginning of my career. But now I'd say it's the opposite, that we have islands of capitalism in a sea of socialism. And socialism, this data is not defined anymore as government ownership. That was, you know, about 100 years ago, the socialism. It's basically government control of industry and in addition to government ownership. So the instruments of the welfare state, the income tax and the regulatory state, is our version of socialism, or central planning, if you will. And it's the Federal Reserve the Fed, which is a government agency that orchestrates the whole thing, really, it's a big, massive central planning industry that controls, regulates basically every aspect of any kind of financial transaction imaginable. They list in their publications over 100 different functions of the Federal Reserve. It's not just monetary policy. It's a big regulatory behemoth, and so that's that's what the Fed is. That's what I think we have today. A friend of mine, Robert Higgs, a well known economic historian, says our system is what he calls participatory fascism. And fascism was a system where private enterprise was permitted, but it was so heavily regulated and regimented by the government that industry had to do what government wanted to do, not what its customers wanted it to do, so much, and a large part of our economic system is just like that, and we get to vote still, so that's where the participatory and comes in, and the pin of Robert Hinz.   Keith Weinhold  14:41 yeah, maybe at best, I can think of today's system as capitalism with guardrails on but the guardrails keep getting taller. And I think of guardrails as being, for example, regulatory agencies like the Fed in FINRA. In the FDA.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  15:01 It is the beginning of my career. You know, I studied economics and a PhD in economics, and there was a big literature on what's called regulatory capture. And it was sort of a big secret among US economic academics. There was all this research going on and how the big regulatory agencies created by the federal government in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, were captured by the industries that they were supposed to be regulating. Right? The theory was they would regulate these industries in the public's best interests. But what has happened from the very beginning is they were captured by the industries, and they benefit the industry at the expense of the public. But today, that's caught on thanks to people like Robert Kennedy Jr, frankly, has been a very popular author. He sold a gazillion copies of his book on Anthony Fauci, and in it, he explains in tremendous detail how the Food and Drug Administration was long ago captured by the pharmaceutical companies. And he's not the only one. I think that that is being more and more recognized by people outside of academic economics, like me, and that's a good thing, and that's sort of the worst example of crony capitalism. It's not real capitalism, but crony capitalism making money through government connections, rather than producing better products, cheaper products and so forth.   Keith Weinhold  16:21 I watched RFK Jr speak in person recently, and I was actually disappointed when he effectively dropped out of the upcoming presidential race. And I do want to talk more with you about the Fed shortly, but with all these regulatory agencies and how I liken them to guard rails. You know, I sort of think of it as a watchdog system that's failing. You mentioned the FDA. I know RFK Jr brought them up an awful lot, the Food and Drug Administration that are supposed to help regulate what we put inside our own bodies in our diet. But these systems are failing. We have regulatory agencies in industry, industry in regulatory agencies. I mean, look at the obesity rate. Look at all the ultra processed food that's allowed. Look at all the seed oils that are allowed in food that people actually think are healthy for them. So this system of capitalism with guardrails is failing almost everywhere you look.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  16:22 I wouldn't call it capitalism. I wouldn't use the word capitalism at all, other than crony capitalism, people can relate to that. You know, a lot of these regulatory agencies were lobbied for in the first place by industry. That while the very first one was the Interstate Commerce Commission, it was in the 1880s it was meant to regulate the railroad companies. The first president was the president of a Railroad Corporation, the head of the Interstate Commerce Commission. So talk about the fox guarding the hen house. That was from the very beginning. And so in a sense, this word capture theory of regulation, which Kennedy has used, they weren't really captured. They always were created by the government. The same is true of all the so called Public Utilities. It was the corporations, the electric power companies, the water supply companies, that lobbied for governments to give them a monopoly, a legal monopoly, in electricity, water supply and all these things that were called natural monopolies, but there was nothing natural about them. There was vigorous competition in the early 20th century in telephone, electricity, water supply, and that was all set aside by government regulation, creating monopolies. For example, in electric power, there's an economist named Walter primo who wrote a book some years ago showing that always have been several dozen cities in America that never went this way, that always allowed direct competition between electric power companies. And what do you know, better service and lower prices. As a result, they did dozens of statistical studies to demonstrate this in his book.   Keith Weinhold  18:58 Okay, well, that's a great case study. Why don't we talk about what things would look like if we took down one of these agencies? We're a real estate investing in finance show. Sometimes it's a popular meme or hashtag to say, end the Fed. What would it look like if we ended the Fed?   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  19:18 Well, the Fed was created in 1913 in the same era, with all these other regulatory captured agencies were created, right? And it was created basically to cartelize and create a cartel for the banking industry to make it almost impossible to go bankrupt. They've been bailing out foolish bankers for 111 years. And of course, the biggest example was that as the crash of 08 after they they handed Goldman Sachs and other big investment banks billions of dollars. That was a direct assault on capitalism itself, because capitalism, as you know, is a profit and loss system. It's not a I keep the profits. You pay for my losses system. You're the taxpayer. But that's what happened with that. So the Fed would. Fall into that the Fed is actually the fourth central bank in America. We had three other ones. First one was called Bank of North America. Its currency was so unreliable, nobody trusted it went out of business in a year and a half. And then we created something called the Bank of the United States in 1791 same thing. It created boom and bust cycles, high unemployment, price inflation, corrupted politics. It was defunded after 20 years, and then it was brought back to fund the debt from the war of 1812 and so we had a Second Bank of the United States. It did the same thing, boom and bust cycles, price inflation, corrupted politics. Benefited special interest, but not the general interest, and President Andrew Jackson defunded it, and so we went without a central bank from roughly 1840 until 1913 so we've had experience of that. And what we had been was competing currencies, and that would be sort of a stepping stone. If we got rid of the fed, we wouldn't have to abolish the Fed altogether. We could amend the charter to the Fed to say you're no longer permitted to buy bonds. Can't buy government bonds anymore. That's how they inflate the money supply, right? By buying bonds. That's totally unnecessary. And we could just just that would be a great step forward, and we would sort of whittle away our $80 trillion debt, if you count again upon count the unfunded liabilities of the federal government,   Keith Weinhold  21:26 if we did end the Fed, what would the price of money? Which are interest rates really look like? Would a new market rate be sent by individuals and companies on the free market like Bank of America, with a customer or borrower settling on an interest rate that they both agree to.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  21:44 You know, the Fed uses sort of Soviet style economics, price control. The economists and are all getting all over Kamala Harris for recommendations for price controls on rent and other things. Well, the Fed price control. They control the price of money. That's what they do. And so there's a big, kind of a comical thing that here you have all these economists, if they were to teach economics in the week one, they would teach about the bad effects of price controls, and then they get a job at the Fed, and they spend their whole career enforcing price controls on money, and the interest rate would be determined by supply and demand for credit and inflationary expectations. That's what the market does. And you wouldn't have these bureaucrats at the Fed tinkering around with interest rates, creating tremendous arbitrage opportunities for Wall Street investors. With all the movements and interest rates, you'd have much more stable interest rates, and and you wouldn't have this ridiculous system where the Fed says we need to always have forever at least 2% inflation. And of course, they never meet that, and they lie about it. I don't believe for one minute that the price inflation right now is 3% or under 3% that's ridiculous, right? And so things should be getting cheaper. Everything should be getting cheaper because of all the technology we have. My first PC I bought in the early 80s for $4,000 and it was a piece of prehistoric junk compared to my cell phone today, that almost for free. Almost everything should be like that agriculture, but the reason it isn't is the Fed keeps pumping so much money in circulation, that it pumps up the demand for goods and services, and that's what creates price inflation. And by its own admission, that's what it does, even though it's charter, it's original charter said they're supposed to fight inflation. All of a sudden, about 10 years ago or so, they announced, south of blue, we always have to have at least 2% inflation. Congress had nothing to do with that. President had nothing to do with that, and the people of America had nothing to do with that. It was dictators like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke that just make these announcements. And where does that come from when we live under the dictatorship of the Fed? And of course, the people who are hurt the most by the Fed are elderly people are living on relatively fixed incomes and are forced to become Wall Street speculators they want to make any more money other than their fixed income, where, you know, during the days of Greenspan, when they're pursuing zero interest rates, maybe the mortgage industry like that, but the people on retirement income were starving as a result of that. So it's been sort of an economic war on the retired population.   Keith Weinhold  24:24 Things should get faster and cheaper to produce, like you said. However, there's definitely one thing that's not getting faster to produce, that's housing build times. Housing build times have actually gone up, which is sort of another discussion unto itself. But we talk about the Fed and then setting prices. People wouldn't stand for setting the price or having price controls on oil or lumber or bananas, but yet we set the price of money itself. People have just become accustomed to that. Yet it's that money itself that we use to buy oil and lumber and bananas the fed with that dual mandate of stable prices and maximum employment. If we did abolish the Fed, what would happen to the rate of inflation?   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  25:12 Well, we would have less inflation. It's supposed to what we replace it with. There's some system would be a replacement, but we wouldn't have the boom and bust cycles that we have now. There's been research in the past 100 years or so of the Fed, and what the academic researchers have concluded is that the Fed has made the economy in general more unstable than it was before we had the Fed and price inflation. That's a joke. The dollar is worth maybe three cents of what it was in the year 1913 right when the Fed was created. So it has failed on all accounts. And so if we got rid of it, we would reverse that. The idea would be to start out with a competing money system. And I'll tell you a quick story is, you know the word Dixie from the south, you know land of Dixie that was named after a currency by a New Orleans bank called the Dix D, I x 10 in French, and it was 100% gold reserve. It was backed by something real and valuable, and it was so popular as even used in Minnesota. But that's why the whole south, the states in the South, were using this currency, because it was so reliable. But during the Civil War, the national currency acts imposed taxes on the competing currencies and taxed them out of business and established the greenback dollar, as it was called, as the Monopoly money of the country. We didn't get a central bank during the Civil War, but we got that. And so that's the kind of system that we would have. Friedrich Hayek wrote a whole book about this, about competing currencies, called the denationalization of money. He poses that as a good stepping stone to a freer market in money. And like you said, Money is the most important thing. Is most more important than bananas or shoes or any of these other things that we might have price controls on.   Keith Weinhold  27:01 All right, so we're talking about the case for ending the Fed. What is the counter argument? I mean, other than the government wanting control, is there a valid, or any academic counter argument for keeping the Fed in place?   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  27:16 The Fed has an army. I call it the Fed's Praetorian Guard of academics. There was a research article published by an economist named Larry White at George Mason University several years ago, and he found that 75% of all the articles in the academic journals regarding money, monetary policy and so forth, are by people who are basically paid by the Fed, one way or the other. Either they're fed economists, or they've been invited to a conference by the Fed, or they're an intern some relationship with the Fed. The late Milton Friedman once said, If you want a career as a monetary economist, it's not a good idea to criticize the biggest employer in your field. So there's a lot of nonsense about that. And so yes, you'll have all sorts of rationales, but it basically comes down to this, that we think we can do central planning better than the Russians did under communism, because the Fed is basically an economic central planning agency, and there's no reason to believe Americans are better at it than the Russians or anybody else. And it basically comes down to that, you know, studying the past 111 years that's showing Well, yeah, they've been trying that for 111 years. They've made the economy more unstable, and they have failed miserably to control inflation. And why should we give them another chance? Why should we continue along this road? We shouldn't So, yeah, there'll be all kind of excuses the late Murray Rothbard, who was one of the founders of the Mises, who once answered this question by saying, It's as though people said, Well, say the government always made shoes. 100 years ago they took over the shoe industry. People would be saying, who will make shoes if the government doesn't make shoes? The government has always made shoes, right? But the government has not always monopolized the money supply. It's only like I said, we abolished three Feds in our history. In American history, they weren't called the Fed, but they were central banks. And the Fed is called a central bank, and we've done that three times. We've abolished more central banks than we have kept in American history.   Keith Weinhold  29:17  We're talking with Dr Thomas D Lorenzo. He is the president of the Mises Institute. About, is there really any capitalism left more when we come back, this is Get Rich Education. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold,  hey, you can get your mortgage loans at the same place where I get mine, at Ridge lending group and MLS 42056, they provided our listeners with more loans than any provider in the entire nation, because they specialize in income properties, they help you build a long term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. You can start your pre qualification and chat with President Caeli Ridge personally. Start now while it's on your mind at RidgeLendingGroup.com, that's Ridgelendinggroup.com. Your bank is getting rich off of you. The national average bank account pays less than 1% on your savings. If your money isn't making 4% you're losing your hard earned cash to inflation. Let the liquidity fund help you put your money to work with minimum risk, your cash generates up to an 8% return with compound interest year in and year out. Instead of earning less than 1% sitting in your bank account, the minimum investment is just 25k you keep getting paid until you decide you want your money back. Their decade plus track record proves they've always paid their investors 100% in full and on time. And I would know, because I'm an investor too. Earn 8% hundreds of others are text family to 66866, learn more about freedom. Family investments, liquidity fund on your journey to financial freedom through passive income. Text, family to 66866.   Kristen Tate  31:11 This is author Kristen Tate. Listen to Get Rich Education with Keith Weinhold, and Don't quit Your Daydream.   Keith Weinhold  31:27 welcome back to get rich education. We're talking with Dr Thomas DiLorenzo. He is the president of the Mises Institute. You can learn more about them @mises.org and Dr DiLorenzo. Frederick Hayek, an economist that you mentioned very well known and a student of Ludwig von Mises, he believed that prices are a communication mechanism between a buyer and a seller. Say, for example, there's a new style of single family rental home that everyone wants to rent. So therefore the rent price goes up when other builders see that the rent price goes up, that brings in more builder competition, and with more competition, that brings rent prices down, and then the world is filled with abundant housing, rather than a scarcity of housing. So that's how I think of a free market system within capitalism as working, as defined through Hayek.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  32:22 You know, the consumer is king. Von Mises once wrote about the same point where he said that people mistakenly believe that it's the bankers and the CEOs and the businesses that control what gets produced and so forth, but it's really the consumer. You build a housing development then people don't want those houses. You'll find out real fast who's in charge. It's not the mortgage brokers. It's not the bankers. It's not you, it's the consumer. That's the free market system, and if you do without it, and not using the free market system, whether it's for money or anything else, is kind of like trying to find your way around a strange city with no street signs, and the prices are the street signs that tell us what to do, exactly like you said, if there's strong demand for a certain type of housing, that'll drive the price up, and that'll tell the home builders, we can make money building more of these. And they will do that. Nobody tells them. The Chairman of the Fed doesn't have to tell them that the President doesn't have to tell them that Congress doesn't have to issue a declaration telling them to do that. That was the Soviet Union where they tried that. And that's the great thing about the market, is that the consumer can tell the richest man in the world like Elon Musk, go play in the traffic. Elon Musk, if they don't like his cars or whatever he's producing, even though he's the richest man in the world. And he understands that he's a pretty successful businessman, I would say, and so so he understands that the consumer is his boss.   Keith Weinhold  33:53 Well, what else do we need to know? You have published a lot of celebrated books, from how capitalism saved America to the politically incorrect guide to economics. What else might a real estate investor or an economic enthusiast need to know today? Oh,   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  34:10 well, I think everybody needs to be their own economist. You can listen to the talking heads on TV and on podcasts and all that, but educate yourself and become your own economist. Because a lot of the people on TV, as you might see on the news, they have an ax to grind, or they have a sort of a hidden financial interest beyond what they're saying, Be your own economist. And that's why I'm selling my website, which is everything on it, it's for free, mises.org, and there are quite a few others too. You don't have to go to school, you don't have to get a degree. You can get a good economic education, for example, on money. We're in the middle of giving away 100,000 copies of a book called What has government done to our money. I'm Murray rothbar. You go to our website, scroll down to the bottom, and you can fill out a form online, and we'll send you free books and. You can educate yourself that way. And so just in general, I think that's what people need to do. I taught MBA students for many years who are people in their 30s or maybe even early 40s, who didn't have economics degrees, but they were really into it, and for the first time in their careers, they decided maybe I should understand how the economic world that I live in and work in every day operates rather than going through your life and your career without you. Might know all about real estate sales, but it's also useful to know about the economy in general and how things work.   Keith Weinhold  35:35 And when one becomes their own economic student and they take that on, I think it's important for them, like you touched on to not just consume the economic news that's on CNBC or other major media, because that doesn't really tell you how to create wealth. It might inform you, but it doesn't necessarily tell you how to take action. For example, on this show an educational channel, you might learn about a story about rising inflation like we had starting three or four years ago. And here we talk about how, okay, if inflation is going to be a long term economic force, you may or may not like what the Fed is doing, but rather than save money, borrow money, outsource that debt service to the tenant on a cash flowing asset like a single family home or an apartment building. And that inflation that you're learning about on CNBC will actually benefit you and debase your debt with prudent leverage on a property, for example, so not just consuming the news, but learning and educating yourself and acting.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  36:34 Oh, sure, well It just so happens that last night, I was talking to a friend of mine who's a real estate professional. They're all talking about, Oh, are we going to have a slight drop in interest rates? And I reminded them that there will be a part of the market if they see it, if we do have a slight drop in interest rates, we'll look at that and say, well, maybe this is a new trend. And so I'll sit back and I'll wait. I'm not going to buy now, because I think the interest rates are going to go down even further in the next six months there were, there would be some segment of the market that thinks that way. And so that's just one little thing. Another thing I would mention is that one of the basic tenets of free market economics is that voluntary trade is mutually beneficial. People buy and sell from each other, because both sides benefit. And that's very important for any business person to keep in mind as you structure business deals, because you know about business deal that is successful is basically, I will give you what you want, and you give me what I want, and we're both happy. And that's that's one of the main tenets of how the market works. Voluntary exchange is mutually beneficial. So think about how to make it mutually beneficial, and you'll succeed in making a deal.   Keith Weinhold  37:45 Well, it's been an excellent discussion on Is there any capitalism left, and how would it look like if we turned the course and created more capitalism here in the United States? It's been great having you on the show.   Dr Thomas DiLorenzo  37:58 Thank you.   Keith Weinhold  38:05 Yeah , again, Learn more @mises.org or look up books by Dr Thomas DiLorenzo. His viewpoint is that there are now merely islands of capitalism in a sea of socialism where those conditions were inverted last century. We've got to end the complex between the government and corporations that these watchdogs are basically powerless when the fox is guarding the henhouse. Dr dilorezzo says we could change the Fed charter so that they couldn't buy bonds, which should reduce inflation. So he does offer a way forward there, a solution.  In capitalism, he consumer is king. This is a good thing. You yourself are empowered because you get to vote with your dollars. So therefore what you buy more of society will see and make more of but a prosperous, progressive economy that should be able to produce goods and services that are constantly cheaper because they get more and more efficient to make with innovation, but centrally planned inflation makes them more expensive, at least in dollar denominated terms. So progress should make things cheaper? Well, then everything should take fewer dollars to buy, homes, oil, bananas, grapes, but it doesn't, and it won't anytime soon, like I mentioned in the interview, there single family build times are taking even longer. That's not more efficient, and they're sure not getting cheaper. In fact, the National Association of Home Builders tells us that from permit to completion in 2015 it took 7.2 months to build a single family home. By 2019 it was up to 8.1 months and then. Last year, the time required to build a single family home from permit to completion was 10.1 months. That's not the side of an efficient economy. So basically, therefore, in the last eight, nine years, the time to build a home has gone from 7.2 months up to 10.1 months. That is a drastic increase in a short period of time. Just amazing. And we now have data after covid as well, broken down by region. The longest build time, by the way, is in New England, where it is 13.9 months to build a home from permit to completion. Gosh, such inefficiency. But despite all that stuff that you might find discouraging like that, I want to go out on a good news note here some encouraging sentiment for you, if you champion free markets, then invest in us rental property down the road, there is no centrally controlled ceiling on what you can sell your property for. Most places don't have rent control. In fact, there's been no federal rent control on private property since World War Two. And somewhat ironically, you benefit. You actually benefit from government backed loans at these low fixed rates, and now they're moderate fixed rates. You often get these through Fannie Freddie or the FHA. See you benefit from that particular government backing as a savvy borrower for rental property. And on top of this, you use the GRE inflation triple crown to flip over that not so capitalistic inflationary force. You flip it upside down and use it to your benefit, profiting fantastically from inflation. So you know how to take the situation you're given and use it to your advantage rather than your detriment. Big thanks to Dr Thomas DiLorenzo today, longtime econ professor and current Mises Institute president, more ways to build Real Estate Wealth coming up here for you on the show in future weeks, as always, with the dash of economics and wealth mindset. Until then, I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, Don't Quit Your Daydream.   42:28 Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. The host is operating on behalf of get rich Education LLC, exclusively,   Keith Weinhold  42:56 The preceding program was brought to you by your home for wealth, building, getricheducation.com.  

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In this episode of Good Money, Tho Bishop is joined by Dr. Jonathan Newman to discuss the real costs of government spending. The end of the debt ceiling battle has resulted in the predictable outcome of normalizing the fiscal insanity of covid-era spending. Tho and Jonathan discuss how this was predictable to those familiar with the work of Dr. Robert Higgs, how mainstream GDP measures miss the true costs of government, and alternative approaches Austrian economists use to provide a clearer understanding of what is really going on in the economy. Good Money listeners can order a special $5 book bundle that includes How To Think About the Economy and What Has Government Done to Our Money? with free shipping using promo code "GoodMoney" at Mises.org/Good Receive a free subscription to The Austrian magazine at Mises.org/Magazine

Chris Coyne lays out a powerful critique of American foreign policy.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitter.Today's book: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to PeaceChris Coyne's twitter and website.Chris Coyne's recommendations: Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained, by Randall G. Holcombe; Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, by Robert Higgs; books by Andrew J. Bacevich, as well as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

A discussion of the main points of Kerry Baldwin's article on human sinfulness and the question of the state's necessity for civil governance. The fact that people are sinners and there will always be crime is shown to be not a reason that states are necessary, but rather a reason for stateless (non-monopolistic) civil governance. https://reformedlibertarians.com/005 00:00 start 00:32 episode description article discussed: https://libertarianchristians.com/2018/03/28/sinful-nature-question-states-necessity/ 01:06 overview of 4-part series Listen to episode 03 on first article concerning law and order and the question of the legitimacy of civil governance: https://reformedlibertarians.com/003 01:27 article preface and summary 03:02 Federalist Paper 51: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp 04:40 Who will watch the watchmen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F 05:02 original sin and total depravity Westminster Confession chapter 6: https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_06 audio on original sin: https://renewingyourmind.org/2022/02/04/original-sin video on total depravity: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/what-is-reformed-theology/total-depravity-part-1 06:17 introductory book about the Reformed view of the Bible's teaching about salvation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801014212?tag=kerrybaldwin-20 06:34 Robert Higgs' article on non-necessity of the state "If Men Were Angels": https://mises.org/library/if-men-were-angels-basic-analytics-state-versus-self-government excerpt from article: https://mises.org/library/if-men-were-angels video presentation "The State Is Too Dangerous To Tolerate": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILDjo4EXV8&list=PLwrDNUO5MDu95jfsFdfN2oe8vXQ6Cma-h&index=12 09:02 US govt says police have no duty to protect you https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again 09:35 in principle, if we are at risk and need protection because people are sinners, then granting monopoly power to any group of sinners is the absolute worst thing we could do 10:33 R.J. Rummel on 20th century democide (murder by the state) https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM 12:48 some seem willfully naive about what states really are. Anatomy Of The State by Murry Rothbard audiobook https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state-audiobook 13:50 conclusion Stateless civil governance takes the principles of limited government to their most consistent and prudential conclusion The idea of limiting the monopoly state is unrealistic The Reformed Libertarians Podcast is a project of the Libertarian Christian Institute: https://libertarianchristians.com and a member of the Christians for Liberty Network: https://christiansforliberty.net Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com  

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception. Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: Mises.org/HAP356-1 Mises on the managerial state: Mises.org/Bureaucracy James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: Mises.org/Burnham Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: Mises.org/BMS92

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception.  Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: Mises.org/HAP356-1 Mises on the managerial state: Mises.org/Bureaucracy James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: Mises.org/Burnham Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: Mises.org/BMS92  ]]>

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception. Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: Mises.org/HAP356-1 Mises on the managerial state: Mises.org/Bureaucracy James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: Mises.org/Burnham Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: Mises.org/BMS92

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception. Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: Mises.org/HAP356-1 Mises on the managerial state: Mises.org/Bureaucracy James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: Mises.org/Burnham Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: Mises.org/BMS92

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception. Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: Mises.org/HAP356-1 Mises on the managerial state: Mises.org/Bureaucracy James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: Mises.org/Burnham Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: Mises.org/BMS92

Tout le monde sait que la taille et la portée des gouvernements ont grandi au cours du siècle dernier, mais comment cette transformation a-t-elle eu lieu ? C'est ce qu'explique l'économiste et historien Robert Higgs dans Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987)  On connait tous l'expression «never let a good crisis go to waste», mais elle est peut-être plus vraie que vous ne l'auriez imaginé. À chaque crise, le gouvernement accrois sont emprise sur la société, pour ensuite relâcher, mais JAMAIS totalement. Deux pas en avant, un pas en arrière, il avance avec ce que Robert Higgs appelle l'effet ratchet. Pour avoir accès aux nouveaux podcasts d'actualité de IAN & FRANK, Suivez-moi sur YouTube en vidéo et ici pour l'audio. Du lundi au jeudi, 12h. Ne manquez pas le PODCAST LIBERTY & WINE  Suivre le podcast LE TRIO ÉCONOMIQUE Pour vous procurer mon livre L'Arnaque Décroissante : https://www.frankphilosophe.com (dans la section boutique) et sur amazon en format Ebook. https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Frank-ebook/dp/B08PDQSDHW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1606972988&sr=8-1  @frandedomiseur et @frankrocknews sur Twitter  Musique par Rising at Fall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 033. This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Costs of the American Empire,” by Robert Higgs (USA/Mexico). PFS 2009 Playlist. Youtube: Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been […]

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 033. This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Costs of the American Empire,” by Robert Higgs (USA/Mexico). PFS 2009 Playlist. Youtube: Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been […]

Suite au «scandale» des Pandora Papers (genre de Panama Papers 2.0), nous avons décidé de faire le podcast sur les paradis fiscaux. Vincent amène le point que pour limiter la taille de l'État, limiter l'extension de la bête, il faut de la compétition au niveau de la taxation à l'échelle internationale. Ian explique ce que ça peut représenter pour un entrepreneur qui vend son entreprise, à l'échelle des provinces canadiennes. Frank livre une réflexion philosophique sur la vision de l'argent que Vincent extrapole à celle des droits et libertés. On parle également du concept de l'effet ratchet de Robert Higgs. Pour la dernière 1/2 heure où on parle entre autre de racisme systémique et d'un article loufoque de Lapresse intitulé Peut-on être féministe et engager une femme de ménage ?, direction patreon.com/isenechal Suivre le podcast sur YouTube ici Vous pouvez également vous procurer le livre de Vincent Geloso ici, celui de Ian ici et celui de Frank ici --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letrioeconomique/message

Sometimes the feeling that we are living in a type of dystopian clown world is pretty hard to shake. This is especially true when it comes to quick, fear-driven policymaking. Robert Higgs describes 12 myths that are fueling government overreach in times of crisis. The term "equality" gets used a lot these days. But it sure doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Gary M. Galles has a great essay on an equality worth defending. At the risk of being labeled a "denier", I'll confess that I have no faith whatsoever in what Dr. Anthony Fauci has to say. He may be a darling of the media but he's also doing a pretty good impression of a pseudoscience propagandist who remains willfully blind to the millions of lives he's helping to destroy. Jordan Schachtel explains what we can learn from Fauci's 300 media appearances in the past year. Seeing through official lies is an essential skill for maintaining one's freedom. Kent McManigal is on target--as usual--with his explanation of how the latest push for gun control is based on official deception. www.thebryanhydeshow.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Sometimes the feeling that we are living in a type of dystopian clown world is pretty hard to shake. This is especially true when it comes to quick, fear-driven policymaking. Robert Higgs describes 12 myths that are fueling government overreach in times of crisis. The term "equality" gets used a lot these days. But it sure doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Gary M. Galles has a great essay on an equality worth defending. Sometimes the feeling that we are living in a type of dystopian clown world is pretty hard to shake. This is especially true when it comes to quick, fear-driven policymaking. Robert Higgs describes 12 myths that are fueling government overreach in times of crisis. The term "equality" gets used a lot these days. But it sure doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Gary M. Galles has a great essay on an equality worth defending. At the risk of being labeled a "denier", I'll confess that I have no faith whatsoever in what Dr. Anthony Fauci has to say. He may be a darling of the media but he's also doing a pretty good impression of a pseudoscience propagandist who remains willfully blind to the millions of lives he's helping to destroy. Jordan Schachtel explains what we can learn from Fauci's 300 media appearances in the past year.  Seeing through official lies is an essential skill for maintaining one's freedom. Kent McManigal is on target--as usual--with his explanation of how the latest push for gun control is based on official deception. Sponsors:  Monticello College Pure Light HSL Ammo Subscribe to the podcast  Support this program by becoming a Patron  

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). This episode features a lecture by economist and economic historian Robert Higgs from 2013. This is an intellectual tour de force from Higgs, where he demolishes many of the popular misconceptions about (and justifications for) the state.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 420 has Skyler giving his commentary on a quote by Larken Rose on there being no country on earth for freedom lovers; by Robert Higgs on the fundamental difference between markets and governments; by Teddy Roosevelt on the soulless twins that are the two major political parties; and by Mark Skousen on what constitutes a civilized society.

As chaotic as 2020 has been, there is a bright side. Many people are beginning to realize, for the first time, that our enemy is not one another--it's the state. George F. Smith explains how the true, coercive nature of the state is being revealed and what we can do in response. By the way, Robert Higgs has a spot-on observation about how the so-called mainstream news media has become another arm of the state. It's another reason why we must continue to create alternative platforms from which truth can be spoken. California is becoming a massive object lesson in how politicians, given enough power and leeway, can ruin millions of people's lives with relative ease. Bretigne Shaffer ask the question, "Can California be saved from its politicians?" and explains some of the remedies that might be applied. It's another sign of the times. Sen. Mike Lee is under fire for pointing on Twitter that too many people use the word "democracy" without actually understanding what it means. The thoughtless crowd is taking his correction pretty hard. Subscribe to the podcast Become a WrongThinker Patron Sponsors: The Staples Turner team at Patriot Home Mortgage Jeff Staples Real Estate Nicky's Wholesale Food Warehouse --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 388 has Skyler giving his commentary on a quote by Robert Higgs on the fakery, fraud, and force of politics; by Ron Paul on freedom and responsibility, and another on the intolerance of authoritarians; and by Jeremy Locke on the difference between principle and law.

What's going on in America's cities?The Trump administration says that gangs and violent anarchists are out of control, and that governors and mayors aren't doing enough to stop them. Accordingly, they're sending in the feds, and we are witnessing Robert Higgs's “Ratchet Effect” in real time. Federal Government is using the latest crisis to justify new incursions on our liberties.Patrick Eddington, a research fellow in homeland security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute, says that the recent DHS action in Portland is an experiment on unwitting human test subjects. The preliminary results seem to have emboldened the administrative state to push forward with “Operation Legend” – an aggressive federal law enforcement action in cities across the country. President Trump says that an alphabet soup of agencies - led by the DOJ - has “no choice but to get involved.”“The FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help drive down violent crime,” said Trump on Wednesday, before Attorney General William Barr took to the podium to justify his deployment of anti-gang task forces engaged in everything from a ramped-up War on Drugs to counter-protests against Black Lives Matter and related groups. Eddington positions this rhetoric squarely within the “American authoritarian tradition” – running through the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War, Wilson's Espionage Act, FDR's Japanese internment, the HUAC… the list goes on.Most disturbingly, we have seen the past two administrations suspend the Posse Comitatus Act - the 1878 Law preventing government from using soldiers to enforce ordinary law - in progressive increments. First, President Bush's 2002 Homeland Security Act allowed the DHS to deploy federal agents to protect federal buildings. Next, Obama's 2012 authorization of the National Defense Authorization Act redefined U.S. territory as a battlefield and legalized indefinite detainment of American citizens without access to a trial or attorney.We now have DHS officials in military uniform taking American citizens into unmarked vans by without clear probable cause.Leftist mayors and governors who now complain about the use of unconstitutional force against protestors in Portland were silent during the Obama years. Are the chickens coming home to roost? Regardless, libertarians must be vigilant in standing against unconstitutional violations of due process and the separation of powers.

Author, essayist and host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7, Scott Horton (https://scotthorton.org/) joins us to talk about the latest New York Times screw up in admitting they got Bolivia wrong. He gets into some of the wars and makes the point that the so called left is dead in the age of Trump. We fix elections, start wars and it's all been for nothing and the left hums along in as Robert Higgs says, “participatory fascism.” He makes no illusions that we are run by the Congressional Military Industrial Complex. In addition, Horton also hosts the Scott Horton Show podcast. His book Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017) is an account of the War in Afghanistan, which argues that the United States should end its presence in the country. Be a Bitter Pill or a Spoonful of Sugar by visiting patreon.com/thebittertruth for details!    

Last week I shared my curated COVID-19 reading list, which is keeping me relaxed and confident in my belief that we are overreacting. While we should worry about the incursions of civil and economic freedoms being brought about in response, people like Jacob Sullum of Reason and Jeffrey Tucker of AIER are doing a service by calming people down about the virus itself.Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek also deserves special mention for leading me to most of my trusted sources with his blog's daily links. It's hard to keep up with all of the outstanding writing he's highlighted over the past weeks, including his own increasingly relevant review of Robert Higgs's Crisis and Leviathan for the American Institute for Economic Research, and a must-read article for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Essential Questions about Essential Medicine.Twitter has reportedly begun to censor non-certified-expert advice on matters related to the coronavirus, so I will limit this Sunday's show to the subject of economics and politics where we are still free to opine (for now). I predict that future economics and political science students will look back in horror at this period – not for the mortality rate, which appears to be marginally higher than an average flu season – but for the acquiescence to draconian restrictions, unprecedented spending, and enlargement of state, local and federal bureaucracy (not to mention the failure of basic functions by the existing apparatus, i.e., FDA).Most media analysis misses what Frédéric Bastiat called “that which is unseen.” Dead bodies being carted away by truck to the morgue is a striking image, and is seen by millions on media loop. Business closures, economic hardship, and looming inflation are harder to see and thus get downplayed in the calculus.Trump's “VERY BIG & BOLD” $2 trillion stimulus produces highly visible benefits in the short-term, but the costs are unseen – postponed to be paid by future generations.Don returned to the show to help me settle the question on all thinking people's minds: is it worth it?Is it worth the loss of liberty?Is it worth trillions in damage to the economy?Is it worth the separation from friends, family, and the myriad economic relationships that have been severed?For the sake of argument, Don and I will assume that the more dire predictions about mortality are true.Join us in asking the hard but important questions on the show of idea - not attitude.

Don Boudreaux channels Robert Higgs and Friedrich Bastiat on the economic and political errors being rushed through the Coronavirus pandemic.

McAlvany Weekly Commentary Peter Zeihan “U.S. consolidation is the order of the day” Following depression the U.S. will see the fastest re-tooling in world history Time to review these shows: Carmen Reinhart, Robert Higgs, Dr. Joseph Tainter, Neil Howe, & Harold James About This Week’s Guest: Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist who combines an expert understanding of […] The post Disunited Nations – Who Wins Or Loses When Global Order Breaks Down? appeared first on McAlvany Weekly Commentary.

On this throwback episode of the Hayek Program podcast, we revisit Christopher Coyne's "Doing Bad by Doing Good" as part of a book panel discussion. Christopher Coyne is joined by panelists Peter van Buren and Robert Higgs with Peter Boettke moderating.

“What does the GDP growth of the last one quarter tell us about the economy, from a Biblical perspective?” Assigned Reading: – Regime Uncertainty, Robert Higgs (Published in The Independent Review, Volume 1, Number 4, of Spring 1997)

Robert Higgs, the distinguished economic historian and author of , covers some of the alleged success stories of government intervention.

This week we discuss the movie about some dude-bro international arms dealers, War Dogs starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller. It's a ridiculous idea made possible by ridiculous government policy. The film follows two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami during the Iraq War who exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a $300 million deal to arm the Afghan Military—a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Just Robert and I on this one as we kick off some rust from not recording a show for a few weeks. Here is the Robert Higgs book that we recommend during the episode: Against Leviathan For Show Notes and more, please visit: www.ActualAnarchy.com/19

Jason Hartman talks with Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal The Independent Review. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University. Dr. Higgs is the editor of The Independent Institute books Opposing the Crusader State, The Challenge of Liberty, Re-Thinking Green, Hazardous to Our Health and Arms, Politics, and the Economy, plus the volume Emergence of the Modern Political Economy. A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of more than 100 articles and reviews in academic journals. Website: Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government

Hayek Program Associate Director Christopher Coyne interviews the 2015-2016 F. A. Hayek Distinguished Visiting Scholar Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. Coyne talks to Professor Higgs about his intellectual background, his work in Austrian economics, and his work at The Independent Review. He also discusses his challenge to the claim that World War II helped the U.S. out of the Great Depression and the lessons of his book Crisis & Leviathan. CC Music: Twisterium

Our week-long Mises University begins this Sunday night, and all keynote lectures will stream free via mises.org/live or our Facebook page. The week kicks-off with Tom Woods Sunday night, followed by Judge Andrew Napolitano Monday evening. So plan on tuning-in: the full schedule is here!Dr. Robert Higgs delivered one of our most popular and most-watched Mises U speeches in 2013, a terrific exposition entitled "The State is too Dangerous to Tolerate". It's an intellectual tour de force from Higgs, where he demolishes many of the popular misconceptions about (and justifications for) the state in one compelling talk. This is Dr. Higgs at his most formidable, and well worth an hour of your time, this weekend. It's the kind of content that you won't hear anywhere else.

The economic historian and economist Robert Higgs joins us to talk about his new book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy (2015).Show Notes and Further ReadingHiggs’s classic work on how government has grown, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987).We also talk about Higgs’s Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 (1977).Higgs mentions a few books by C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite (1956) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert Higgs discusses our most recent economic recovery and some thoughts on how Keynesians explain events in American economic history. Higgs is author of the new book, Taking a Stand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist and historian Robert Higgs has advanced our understanding of the causes, means, and effects of government power and the need to deconstruct statism and re-establish institutions that protect and advance liberty, prosperity, and peace. His work has engaged such issues as health care, the environment, law and economics, urban development, race discrimination, agriculture, immigration, war and peace, economic development, government spending and debt, welfare, money and banking, presidential power, civil liberties, the Great Depression, science, unemployment, and far more.His new book offers general readers keen analysis and engaging wit, informed by humility and compassion. Higgs examines the moral and practical imperatives of individual liberty, entrepreneurship and innovation, peace, economic growth, personal responsibility, civic virtue, and the rule of law. Taking a Stand’s 99 short, accessible chapters present a powerful and uplifting vision for the future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we’re joined by Christopher A. Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. We ask whether there exists a single libertarian foreign policy that all libertarians would agree with; talk about the idea that war powers, resolutions, and laws passed during wartime don’t recede in times of peace; give a quick rundown of American military history; and discuss the rise of a permanent private industry supplying the military.When should the United States go to war? When did the American military really start to get massive? How much do we spend on the military today? Relative to recent history? Is the military open to the same kinds of critiques that libertarians make about other government programs?Show Notes and Further ReadingChristopher Preble’s 2014 book, co-editied with John Mueller, A Dangerous World?: Threat Perception and U.S. National Security features a collection of essays examining and questioning the most frequently-referenced dangers to American security.Bruce Porter’s book War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics (1994).Robert Higgs’s book Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987), in which he establishes the principle of the ratchet effect.Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent’s new book Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes (2015). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lot of action has taken place so far in the Ohio legislature. Reviewing the action of Ohio government at the half-way mark with members of the Ohio Legislative Correspondence Association. Guest: Karen Kasler, Ohio Public Radio and Television, and Robert Higgs, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Length 39:20

Everyone's talking about income inequality, and I thought this article by Robert Higgs -- "" -- was worth an episode's worth of commentary. Here are the resources for today's episode: Books Mentioned Frederick Bastiat, . At this link you can get a free e-book edition or buy the print version. David Beito, . Connor Boyack, . This is a children's book that conveys the ideas of Bastiat's classic work. Charles Murray, . Thomas Woods, . Previous Episodes Mentioned : Who Creates Jobs? (George Reisman) : The Truth About the Fast-Food Protests (Diana Furchtgott-Roth) : Why Are We So Rich? (Deirdre McCloskey) : Teaching Liberty to Kids (Connor Boyack) : Before the Welfare State? (David Beito) Episodes on Health Care : What's Wrong with Health Care (Colin Gunn) : Affordable Health Care in the Age of Obamacare (Sean Parnell) : Market Medicine (Charles Sauer) : Obamacare and Medicare: A Physician's View (Jane Orient) Special Offers If you enjoy the Tom Woods Show, my new book --  -- is for you. ! And get a free copy of the audiobook version, with me reading it, at . I'm designing courses for Ron Paul's homeschool curriculum.  to adopt this program today (and 4 not to). If you do sign up, do so through  and I'll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just  once you've signed up and I'll get it to you. (And if you'd like my courses a la carte, without joining the Ron Paul program, you can get them at .)

Robert Higgs, economist and economic historian and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episods in the Growth of American Government, looks at the domestic consequences of World War I.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 129. This is a lesson/lecture I presented to a group of "Upper Elementary" Montessori students today at my son's school, The Post Oak School (Upper El includes 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students, and there were also a few third graders visiting from lower el, who are moving up next year). The students (25 or 30 or so) sat in a group at my feet, and were polite and interested the whole time. They asked many very intelligent and fun questions. I tried not to get too complicated, but did speak in fairly frank and sophisticated terms, tried not to talk down to them or dumb the talk down too much, and almost all of them hung in there till the end. The original plan was to speak for 40 or so minutes then take questions for another 15 or so, but we ended up going about an hour and 7 minutes, and then during lunch I had throng of students throwing more questions at me for another half hour. What amazing students; what an amazing school and educational approach. (This is one reason I love the Montessori approach; see my Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism.) I included here only the main talk and Q&A, not the lunch banter. (An article prepared by 6th graders in the class, describing the lecture, appears in the first couple of pages of this issue of the class newsletter.) I think this talk is suitable for kids from ages 9 to 16 or so. The notes I used and handed out are reproduced below, with a few links added. For more background on these topics, see the links below, as well as my short article Legislation and Law in a Free Society, adapted from my 1995 JLS article Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, which contains detailed references; and my more detailed speech The (State's) Corruption of (Private) Law, from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Update: Some people have asked me for further recommended readings, in legal history, etc. Unfortunately my library is packed away in boxes now for a renovation so I cannot peruse my legal theory/history titles, but from memory and some other notes I have, here are some suggested readings related to the talk. Some of my own personal favorites first: Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law Watson, Alan, The Importance of “Nutshells” Herman, Shael, The Louisiana Civil Code: A European Legacy for the United States Giovanni Sartori, Liberty and Law Alan Watson, Roman Law and Comparative Law The Story of Law, by John M. Zane (I haven't finished it yet but liked what read so far) (also online) Arthur Hogue, The Origins of the Common Law See also my post Book Recommendations: Private, International, and Common Law; Legal Theory, and also: The Greatest Libertarian Books and  Other Top Ten Lists of Libertarian Books. For some others: A History of American Law, 2d. ed., 1985, Lawrence M. Friedman Trakman, Leon E., The Law Merchant: The Evolution of Commercial Law Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law Buckland, W.W. & Arnold D. McNair, Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study, by Karl N. Llewellyn Jhering, Dr. Rudolph von, The Struggle for Law Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition. “The latter is one of the greatest books (not just of law, but of any subject) I've ever read; and the former is full of interesting argument and facts. Berman also has a sequel, published a few years ago, that carries the story through the Protestant Reformation, but I haven't read it yet. I venture to recommend it, sight unseen, on the strength of my admiration of its predecessor.” (Thanks to Robert Higgs.) Alan Watson, The Making of the Civil Law Rosalyn Higgins: Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It Giovanni Sartori, Democratic Theory Merryman, John Henry, The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America, 2d. ed.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 129. This is a lesson/lecture I presented to a group of "Upper Elementary" Montessori students today at my son's school, The Post Oak School (Upper El includes 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students, and there were also a few third graders visiting from lower el, who are moving up next year). The students (25 or 30 or so) sat in a group at my feet, and were polite and interested the whole time. They asked many very intelligent and fun questions. I tried not to get too complicated, but did speak in fairly frank and sophisticated terms, tried not to talk down to them or dumb the talk down too much, and almost all of them hung in there till the end. The original plan was to speak for 40 or so minutes then take questions for another 15 or so, but we ended up going about an hour and 7 minutes, and then during lunch I had throng of students throwing more questions at me for another half hour. What amazing students; what an amazing school and educational approach. (This is one reason I love the Montessori approach; see my Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism.) I included here only the main talk and Q&A, not the lunch banter. (An article prepared by 6th graders in the class, describing the lecture, appears in the first couple of pages of this issue of the class newsletter.) I think this talk is suitable for kids from ages 9 to 16 or so. The notes I used and handed out are reproduced below, with a few links added. For more background on these topics, see the links below, as well as my short article Legislation and Law in a Free Society, adapted from my 1995 JLS article Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, which contains detailed references; and my more detailed speech The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law, from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Update: Some people have asked me for further recommended readings, in legal history, etc. Unfortunately my library is packed away in boxes now for a renovation so I cannot peruse my legal theory/history titles, but from memory and some other notes I have, here are some suggested readings related to the talk. Some of my own personal favorites first: Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law Watson, Alan, The Importance of “Nutshells” Herman, Shael, The Louisiana Civil Code: A European Legacy for the United States Giovanni Sartori, Liberty and Law Alan Watson, Roman Law and Comparative Law The Story of Law, by John M. Zane (I haven't finished it yet but liked what read so far) (also online) Arthur Hogue, The Origins of the Common Law See also my post Book Recommendations: Private, International, and Common Law; Legal Theory, and also: The Greatest Libertarian Books and  Other Top Ten Lists of Libertarian Books. For some others: A History of American Law, 2d. ed., 1985, Lawrence M. Friedman Trakman, Leon E., The Law Merchant: The Evolution of Commercial Law Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law Buckland, W.W. & Arnold D. McNair, Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study, by Karl N. Llewellyn Jhering, Dr. Rudolph von, The Struggle for Law Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition. “The latter is one of the greatest books (not just of law, but of any subject) I’ve ever read; and the former is full of interesting argument and facts. Berman also has a sequel, published a few years ago, that carries the story through the Protestant Reformation, but I haven’t read it yet. I venture to recommend it, sight unseen, on the strength of my admiration of its predecessor.” (Thanks to Robert Higgs.) Alan Watson, The Making of the Civil Law Rosalyn Higgins: Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It Giovanni Sartori, Democratic Theory Merryman, John Henry, The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America, 2d. ed.

Dr. Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, joins Tom for a wide-ranging discussion.Check out the full exposition of Dr. Higgs' position on World War II at this link.

I was a guest again on http://cultureofempathy.com with host Edwin RutschWes: Human Centered Design Project: What are your needs for empathy? Interviewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyDJQiMuruIHuman-centered designhttp://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdfGeorge Packer: Can Silicon Valley Embrace Politics?http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_packerMarshall B. Rosenberg - How do you talk to yourself about making mistakeshttp://youtu.be/iibgCYQTXCsHighly recommended free novel (and audiobook): Little Brother by Cory Doctorowhttp://craphound.com/littlebrother/Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Papehttp://www.amazon.com/Dying-Win-Strategic-Terrorism-ebook/dp/B000FCK904/Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnsonhttp://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Edition-Consequences-ebook/dp/B003JH8MAG/Civil Liberties and Security in an Age of Terrorism, July 18, 2013 - Robert Higgs, Anthony Gregory, Mary L. G. Therouxhttp://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=158http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314255-1Taking on the California DMVhttp://completeliberty.com/videos/view/taking-on-the-california-dmv_35.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ZY5LSDEZAVirginia Satir Forgiving Parents Family Therapy clip3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxysb4PD6yIhttp://deadeasylife.com/support/http://libertopia.org/2013/http://freestateproject.org/http://miplc.org/http://www.blueridgelibertyproject.com/http://languageofcompassion.com/2013/06/new-culture-house-starting/http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-virgin-diet-and-n-1-experiments-with-wes-bertrandbumper music "Empathy" by Fatsohttp://www.fatsomusic.net/

Featuring Thomas DiLorenzo, Mark Thornton, Timothy Terrell, Thomas Woods, Robert Higgs, and Robert Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2013.

Featuring Thomas DiLorenzo, Mark Thornton, Timothy Terrell, Thomas Woods, Robert Higgs, and Robert Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2013.

WARNING: Strong Language My third appearance on The Renegade Variety Hour. Here's our prior conversations: 1. 222 (Supplemental): Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour 2. Empathizing with “The Enemy” (Brett On The Renegade Variety Hour, Part 2) At Porcfest, I sat down with Carlos and Taryn to discuss the topics listed below. Jeff Maxim, from Skeptical Youth also joined us. Discussed: -Is liberty a movement? -Conspiracy theorist vs Skeptic debate -History is filled with conspiracies -Conspiracy research as learning motivator -Open carrying -Porcfest vs Woodstock '99 and Jugalo gatherings? -If government disappears tomorrow -Robert Higgs on how the state came to be -Man Makes Himself -A very brief history of slavery Bumper Music: "Bus Rider" by John Swihart (Napoleon Dynamite Soundtrack) Look Closer: Jeff's Blog: Skeptical Youth - http://skepticalyouth.tumblr.com/ Renegade Variety Hour - http://therenegadevarietyhour.podomatic.com/

The state government is involved in a variety of issues including the state budget. We hear from members of the statehouse press on these various issues. Guest: Bill Cohen, Ohio Public Radio, Laura Bischoff, Dayton Daily News, Robert Higgs, Plain Dealer.

Economic historian Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan and other great books, discusses the “vulgar Keynesianism” of Paul Krugman. We also preview elections in Wisconsin and California.

Guests Kevin from http://freedomlovin.com and http://healthymindfitbody.com and Michael from SoCalLibertopia videos are availablehttp://libertopia.org/media/videos/libertopia-2010-speeches/http://libertopia.org/media/videos/libertopia-2011-speeches/Yet another rights-violating statist courthouse, despite its PR claimshttp://www.miottawa.org/CourtsLE/58thDistrict/The Police State Is Here by Tim Kellyhttp://www.fff.org/comment/com1205p.aspWho Is Most Likely to Oppose Totalitarianism? by Robert Higgs http://blog.independent.org/2012/03/29/who-is-most-likely-to-oppose-totalitarianism/Kev's HS religious memeshttp://www.moreaucatholic.org/s/768/2col.aspx?sid=768&gid=1&pgid=264What do you do when a truth--a new truth to you--conflicts with your belief system?143: Logic Saves Lives Part 1 - Foundation, Attitudes and Valueshttp://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2012-05-25T16_12_31-07_00Get a mental software (wetware:) upgrade and explore your subconscious emotional psychologyhttp://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources/How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God by Daisy Grewalhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-critical-thinkers-lose-faith-godSam Harris simply destroys catholicismhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcO4TnrskE0from: The God Debate II: Harris vs. Craighttp://youtu.be/yqaHXKLRKzghttp://pennsundayschool.com/Maxed-out or abundance? Paul Gilding, Peter Diamandis debatehttp://www.kurzweilai.net/qa-from-the-ted-stage-paul-gilding-and-peter-diamandis-debatebumper music "God" by John Lennonhttp://www.johnlennon.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697

McAlvany Weekly Commentary A Look At This Week’s Show: U.S. Government can and will continue to grow Exponential government growth requires exponential economic growth Government growth hits critical mass when it's people can no longer afford it About the Guest: Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly […] The post Crisis and Leviathan: An interview with Robert Higgs appeared first on McAlvany Weekly Commentary.

For the most part, the Great Society represented the culmination of economic, political, and intellectual developments dating back a century, writes Robert Higgs.This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.

Dr. Robert Higgs, an economic historian and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, presents the lecture “The Catastrophic Impact of War on Liberty". The event is the second in the Liberty and Power Lecture Series at UA. Higgs is the editor of the Independent Institute’s quarterly journal, The Independent Review. He received his doctorate in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University and the University of Economics, Prague. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gary Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Defense of Liberty, the Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties, the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, the Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education and the Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society. His publications include “Depression, War, and Cold War” and “Resurgence of the Warfare State.” The Liberty and Power Lecture Series, founded by Dr. David Beito, professor of history, offers speakers who look at the conflict between government power and individual liberty in recent history, particularly in the areas of art, media, technology, the knowledge economy and social history. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Creative Campus.

Charles Mattocks aka The poor chef is back on air with his Healthy dish team, with co host Robert Higgs, we will talk with Reverend Dennis Meredith, we will talk about the saga with Pastor Eddie Long and who are our role models, we used to be able to trust certain people, be it religious figures or school teaches and coaches,we now seem to be lost as to who to trust, we will try and find the answers to the questions . You can visit us at www.thehealthydishshow.com or www.thepoorchef.com and or email us at info@thepoorchef.com Below you can read some info on Rev Dennis Meredit and his views on being gay in the pulpit!!!!!!About Rev DennisWhen Rev. Dennis Meredith of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta began preaching acceptance of gay men and lesbians a few years ago, he attracted some gay people who were on the brink of suicide and some who had left the Baptist faith of their childhoods but wanted badly to return.A compelling orator with the voice and showmanship of a stadium-rock star, Mr. Meredith quickly began to draw more new members. He preached against homosexuality. Then, five years ago, his middle son, Micah, told him that he is gay. Mr. Meredith and his wife began to read liberal theologians like Mr. Gomes and to look at Scripture again. What matters most in the Bible, Mr. Meredith said, was Jesus’ injunction to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that includes gay men and lesbians.

Charles Mattocks aka The poor chef is back on air with his Healthy dish team, with co host Robert Higgs, we will talk with Reverend Dennis Meredith, we will talk about the saga with Pastor Eddie Long and who are our role models, we used to be able to trust certain people, be it religious figures or school teaches and coaches,we now seem to be lost as to who to trust, we will try and find the answers to the questions . You can visit us at www.thehealthydishshow.com or www.thepoorchef.com and or email us at info@thepoorchef.com Below you can read some info on Rev Dennis Meredit and his views on being gay in the pulpit!!!!!!About Rev DennisWhen Rev. Dennis Meredith of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta began preaching acceptance of gay men and lesbians a few years ago, he attracted some gay people who were on the brink of suicide and some who had left the Baptist faith of their childhoods but wanted badly to return.A compelling orator with the voice and showmanship of a stadium-rock star, Mr. Meredith quickly began to draw more new members. He preached against homosexuality. Then, five years ago, his middle son, Micah, told him that he is gay. Mr. Meredith and his wife began to read liberal theologians like Mr. Gomes and to look at Scripture again. What matters most in the Bible, Mr. Meredith said, was Jesus’ injunction to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that includes gay men and lesbians.

Jason Hartman talks with Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal The Independent Review. Visit: http://holisticsurvival.com/category/audio-podcast/. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of [...]

Even so-called judges are obedient to someone... Authoritarian sociopaths want more and more power (to fill the void in their self-esteem) Governmental courts foster the ultimate conflicts of interest (adjudicator and prosecutor on the same team) "Do as I say, not as I do!" is the favorite line of those living in self-conflict We need a movement of new intellectuals who ferret out contradictions Nothing Outside the State | The Beacon by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=5309 Government is the new religion It's important to question the hypocrisy of those advocates of statism who believe they are moral The personalities who favor coercion of politics stand opposed to creative minds The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff http://www.peikoff.com/lr/home.htm Government: The equal opportunity offender About the Show - Survivors - BBC America http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/370/about-survivors.jsp Ever notice that those in government have no problem with the pervasive crimes (rights-violations) they perpetrate? The more "laws" that governmental employees create, the more "criminals" they can apprehend (ruling via fear of punishment) WHY IS THE IRS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK? read all about it... http://tinyurl.com/ye5o6c9 "Just doing my job" is not a moral argument; shirking responsibility is not moral The anti-conceptual mentality dominates America (and the world) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anti-conceptual_mentality.html Religion, being a ready-made system for controlling people, promotes the ethics of self-sacrifice, i.e., sacrifice of one's mind and life to invalid and erroneous concepts "God" is based on a conglomeration of invalid concepts, unable to be logically integrated: infallibility; omniscience; and omnipotence The "supernatural" is a fantasy designed to enslave people's minds; there is only the natural http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mystics_of_spirit_and_muscle.html further reading...An Issue Of Mortality http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html Some perspective on something bigger than yourself: "The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is called a 'pencil beam' survey because the observations encompass a narrow, yet 'deep' piece of sky. Astronomers compare the Ultra Deep Field view to looking through an eight-foot-long soda straw." http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/ Complete liberty is not just about politics; it's about a worldview in which you free your mind of contradictory beliefs and behaviors Ultimately one must redeem one's mind from all the hockshops of authority; no gods and no governments Intense introspection and self-knowledge is key bumper music "Antonym" by Krylls http://www.krylls.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697    

Twenty-one Reasons Why Statism Is a Radical and Radically Incoherent Theory by Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski http://www.strike-the-root.com/twenty-one-reasons-why-statism-is-radical-and-radically-incoherent-theory Governmental employees who regulate people are unproductive, anti-creative, and anti-entrepreneurial For many, Government is like God, and needs no explanation Since individuals can govern themselves, why have government?--unless you want to govern other individuals and seize their property You can't have a valid contract when one side doesn't agree to it; thus, the "social contract" is a myth perpetuated by people who want to control others Robbing Peter (via taxation) to support Paul is not benevolent; it's the doctrine of sacrifice http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html The Historical Societal Problem (quote by Rothbard within) http://www.logicallearning.net/libhistoricalsoc.html Laissez-faire, A More Enlightened View Of Capitalism—And Its Contradictions http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html Fear of punishment starts in the family and ends with following governmental "law" Only property owners can determine rational rules for customers A Democratic Republic is the worst form of government except for all the others Self-governing capitalism is in line with human nature, based on the trader principle http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/trader_principle.html CRISIS AND LEVIATHAN: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=15 I'm Allowed to Rob You! by Larken Rose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE Only natural law, based in the non-aggression principle, ensures justice and restoration of victims In order for a better world to arise, parents need to work on their self-esteem and therefore treat children similarly bumper music "I Own Me" by Neema V http://www.myspace.com/neemav  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNeemaV to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697    

Bureaucrats in government, as members of the parasitical class, always try to get "their cut" from businesses Those in government shouldn't be welcomed onto private property Question for terrocrats (terrorist bureaucrats): Other than the threat of physical violence, what is the reason for our relationship? Another question for terrocrats: Other than your flag and pretended legitimacy, how are you any different than the mafia? Government and statist media promote various 'scares of the day' to control people There are two kinds of people in the world: those who want to live in peace, trade, and not be bothered, and those who don't Why do those in government maintain a coercive monopoly on their "services"? Because they fear having to be compete and be accountable In a free market, people would see that governmental "services" suck, so they'd either have to change or dissolve Because they've monopolized various services, those in government accuse those who don't want to be extorted as being "free riders" Agorist Class Theory: A Left-Libertarian Approach to Class Conflict Analysis by Wally Conger, drawing on the unfinished work of Samuel Edward Konkin III http://www.nostate.com/2164/agorist-class-theory-audio-mp3-podcast/ http://agorism.info/docs/AgoristClassTheory.pdf Modern politics serves as a distraction from the primary problem: people using the State to sacrifice others Those in government want people to be part of their process (the parasitical class), so their actions appear justified Statism as a cancer on society... What happens when the host can no longer support the parasites? If government is virtuous, the more the better, right? A Vigorous Push From Federal Regulators by Lyndsey Layton http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202554.html Pentagon speeds up work on 15-ton bomb http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33293807/ns/us_news-military/ Obama has brought a lot of change to washington; unfortunately, it was all for the worse We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned by Brian Mockenhaupt http://www.esquire.com/features/unmanned-aircraft-1109 Militarism, imperialism, foreign occupation, and nation-building--the not-so-secret recipe for terrorism blowback The demise of the dollar by Robert Fisk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html The monetary scheme of the Bretton Woods "agreement" has led to extreme devaluation of the US dollar, the ultimate fiat currency The last thing that governmental "officials" want is to relinquish their control of the money supply and monetary system Fiscal and monetary "policy"--two horsemen of the apocalypse Currency inflation is an insidious and cowardly form of taxation; the US dollar is now only about 3% of its original value Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics by Tom Bemis http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-fails-to-win-nobel-prize-in-economics-2009-10-12 The Governator pays another visit to CLP! Schwarzenegger Signs Tougher Anti-Paparazzi Law http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8812090 California must go bankrupt by John C. Dvorak http://www.marketwatch.com/story/california-must-go-bankrupt-2009-09-18 Government is a refuge for those who choose not to function voluntarily in a free marketplace People can learn how to get along without being violent Progressive Claptrap by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=3506 Partisan Politics—-A Fool’s Game for the Masses by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=3596 Socialist mentality entails developmental victimization and thus using the State to victimize others The whole reason to live in a society is to interact with others voluntarily, offering and receiving knowledge and trade http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/free_market.html Recognition of self-ownership and property rights is the solution to the ills of government Most people are in massive denial about the nature of statism People need to conceive of a society that is all privately owned Those who currently survive via coercion need to realize their potential to survive by respecting others in the marketplace It's vital to stand up and resist statist notions, to confront those in government (criminal mentalities) with a strong moral conviction based on property rights Self-sacrifice is not a virtue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar... People who have spent their lives creating and producing are unlikely to desire ruling over others; yet "intellectual property" laws foster a major counter-example... For instance, Snap Out of it NOW! trademark http://snapoutofitnow.com/ and one of Apple's many threats... http://digg.com/apple/Apple_may_take_Woolworths_to_court_over_similar_logo bumper music "Let Go Of My World" by Testament http://www.testamentlegions.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

People and their property are politically enslaved by coercive government Obedience to "authority" in the family and the classroom are the roots of our enslavement Most of what people understand about government they learned in elementary school American governmental mythologies are pounded into kids' heads in school Why We Couldn't Abolish Slavery Then and Can't Abolish Government Now by Robert Higgs http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs128.html "If you don't like it, you can leave" is merely collectivistic slavespeak The "government" doesn't own anything People and their property shouldn't be pushed around on "public property" Governmental laws violate individual rights, in defiance of natural law principles Authoritarian sociopaths in government resort to violence against the non-compliant A story of barroom allegations... Ultimately, the barrel of a gun is the method of attaining obedience from the resistant Underlying the pretenses of slaves and authoritarians is fear, fear of self-realization and self-reliance and fear of others When people refer to "the sheeple," they are oftentimes projecting their own mindset Many people have become sponges for other people's horrible ideas People in the communistic organization known as government claim to know best for everyone else Denial of self-responsibility is the essence of representative government Your so-called "representative" likely doesn't even know that you as an individual exist Government tries to turn people into unthinking rather than thinking animals by treating them like a herd Lysander spooner had some wise words about accountability in relation to those who presume to govern others... The Nature Of Present Government - http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html Government is a euphemism for slavery by Kent McManigal "Countries" are essentially collectivistic abstractions created by governments to rule people http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5723-Albuquerque-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m8d4-Government-is-a-euphemism-for-slavery Trying to get freedom by involving yourself in government is morally contradictory Florida man spends three months in jail for possession of breath mints http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9c1ra/florida_man_spends_three_months_in_jail_for/ Statist judges violate individual rights on a daily basis The myth of using the system to change the system... Try to change a small coercive gang first before trying to change government http://www.atlasmediaonline.com/hx-says/stefan-molyneux-philosophy-freedom-thoughts http://freedomainradio.com/board/forums/t/21074.aspx The system of government is not worth working in; one shouldn't try to work for a rights-violating institution The moral is the practical and vice versa Involving oneself in electoral politics (might makes right) is contradicting a rational moral code; the end (freedom) doesn't justify the means (coercion via illegitimate government) Seeing the nature of the matrix entails thinking for oneself and thinking critically Statist propaganda spans the globe, fostering self-denying collectivism Government is the opposite of peace and happiness; it's based on the idea that it's good to exploit others Having low self-esteem makes one vulnerable to obeying and legitimizing any would-be "authority" the matrix is the state http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSLzXikXks Government wasn't created as an answer to prehistoric and historic problems of aggression and violence; it's just a more powerful way to promote them Children must be seen as independent and conceptual little people, worthy of respect Brett's educational podcast - http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/ Daniel's site (with podcast) - http://warisimmoral.com bumper music "Happiness In Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails http://www.nin.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

Is Evil Necessary? - Lost Liberty Café by Joey Carlisle http://www.lostlibertycafe.com/index.php/2009/04/10/is-evil-necessary/ Changing the name for "government" won't get rid of its extortion racket and other rights violations... FDR's 'Statism is Dead' makes the Freedom Force Report for June and July 2009 http://freedomainradio.com/board/forums/t/21237.aspx CRISIS AND LEVIATHAN: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=15 When government violates your person and property, who protects you? The boogeyman of anarchy (fear) prevents people from thinking critically A stateless society will have FAR less criminality, courtesy of property owners and a justice-oriented culture Real security is provided by other people in the marketplace Those who fear the alleged ills of anarchism are those who embrace and perpetuate the vast ills of statism It's the perceived legitimacy granted to the warlords and gangsters in government that matters most Withdraw your moral sanction, and Colossus will be destined fall... The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie http://mises.org/MultiMedia/mp3/audiobooks/Boetie/Boetie_Introduction.mp3 If God were to exist, why would he/it allow evil? Ah, the "free will" escape hatch! Beware philosophizing in midstream--the realm of supernatural metaphysics (non-perception, non-consciousness, non-reason) Moral Orel theme song - http://www.markrivers.net/songs/heart.html shows: http://www.adultswim.com/shows/moralorel/index.html Faith is setting aside reason and what you know to be true You were told to believe in and take bites out of "invisible apples," as Stefan Molyneux has astutely noted: http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/how_to_control_a_human_soul.mp3 also in the book Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR Omniscience, omnipotence, and infallibility are invalid concepts (impossible) http://www.logicallearning.net/libertyourownima.html Religion is a primitive form of philosophy - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/religion.html We must use our (fallible) senses in concert with reason to understand more and more of reality http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html Understanding emotions is key: http://www.logicallearning.net/libemotions.html Religion gives every grown adult a pass for the evils that they perpetrate (because evil's in our "nature") Evil defined: To initiate force, which nullifies the choices of a sovereign consciousness http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evil.html Evasion is the precursor to evil actions - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evasion.html ~40% out-of-wedlock births, from Taking Marriage Private By Stephanie Coontz - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html Fear of not being able to survive and lack of self-esteem contribute to the meme of "necessary evil" In survival mode, morality is most needed, so that no one is sacrificed The phenomenon of the State is our real-life lifeboat situation Survival "at all costs" is the nature of statism It's heroic for a kid to contradict the irrationality of his or her parents To assert oneself, regardless of one's age, means stating plain facts and spurning nonsense The "benefits" derived from governmental "services" are illusory; it's vital to focus on the immense, unseen benefits of complete liberty Ethic of Liberty - Title Transfer Theory 19. PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE THEORY OF CONTRACTS by Murray Rothbard http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/nineteen.asp A kangaroo court (governmental court) is one in which the judge and plaintiff (prosecutor) work for the same organization A fair trial is impossible in governmental courts; see http://marcstevens.net No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years by ASHBY JONES http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137263059962659.html http://digg.com/odd_stuff/One_can_spend_a_long_time_in_jail_without_being_charged http://freeminds.podbean.com/2009/06/14/ree-minds-radio-june-14-2009/ In a valid contract, you cannot logically impose a penalty of slavery for breach; volition is inalienable The Nature of Contracts - http://completeliberty.com/chapter6.php#121 There are no necessary evils bumper music "Lives In The Balance" by Jackson Browne http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/discography/album/solo-acoustic-vol-1 to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

United States of prisons... 1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28cnd-prison.html Law and order stems from people's respect for each other, not "laws" and jails Government demonstrates unlawful and disorderly conduct on a daily basis Invalid "public land" creates political conniving and "special interests" that exist at others' expense Complete liberty would enable vast opportunities for work (and pleasure) and wealth-creation Without property rights, no other rights are possible (hat tip to A.R.) Government imposes "services" that you can't refuse without being accosted CRISIS AND LEVIATHAN: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=15 People in government are "good" at creating crises and fear in the populace, and more government, and still more oppression The governmental response to 9/11 wreaked further death and destruction overseas, and imprisonment of some in Guantanamo Bay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo by Erik Saar and Viveca Novak http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594200661/ Governmental "officials" have denied the necessity of habeas corpus and due process Gitmo prisoners have been used as a political weapon in the "War on Terror" Guantánamo Detainee Ruled Not Mentally Fit To Testify About Psychological Torture http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/guant_aacute_namo_detainee Who Are the Gitmo Prisoners Released With Sami al-Haj? by Andy Worthington http://www.alternet.org/rights/84907/ Even though governmental courts don't provide justice, alleged "enemy combatants" suffer even more injustice (usually without public awareness) No End in Sight for the 'Enemy Combatants' of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington http://www.lewrockwell.com/worthington/worthington9.html Judge: Gitmo legal documents must be public http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31050764/ A Child At Guantánamo: The Unending Torment of Mohamed Jawad by Andy Worthington http://www.fff.org/comment/com0906a.asp REQUEST FOR DESIGNATION AS A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR Hospital Corpsman Daniel J. Lakemacher Petty Officer Second Class http://coapplication.blogspot.com/ Day 9 - Reflections on GTMO http://www.warisimmoral.com/2009/05/day-9-reflections-on-gtmo.html To reject "God" and "Government" and the irrational/immoral actions of their adherents is a heroic achievement Truth is determined by a rational faculty looking at reality in a logical fashion Governmental rights-violations--law of the jungle Most people's critical faculties whither under institutions supporting the tribal premise (churches and states) Peer pressure and emotional turmoil take their devastating toll on people's independence Every child is subjected to horrific authoritarian/obedience memes in our culture Parents need to understand that they are naturally authoritative--and that being authoritarian is acting from insecurity Thuggish actions don't encourage responsibility, reasoning ability, self-esteem, independence, or happiness If you want your child to flourish, live a great life, and to respect you (and demand respect from others), then respect his or her mind, will, and belief in self Encourage kids to think rationally, to challenge authority, and question any destructive and contradictory belief--this will enable a voluntaryist future About War by John Cory (no longer posted on Truthout.org) http://www.john-cory.com/warandpolitics.html War is self-created hell; it starts with self-conflict and extends to conflict with others, exacerbated and perpetuated by the sick institution of government Government relies on propaganda to further itself and promote fear and lies and obedience--in the name of sacrificing individuals Foreign invasion would just change our masters; the slaves remain enslaved so long as there are governments Without government, no masters (either foreign or domestic) have any power The free market will have no problem ensuring people's security and prosperity Super Sherpa repeats Everest feat (19 times for Apa!) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8061443.stm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10231450 New record for fastest climb of Mt Everest http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/691263.cms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemba_Dorjie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Everest#Various_records bumper music "Time To Go Home" from Yell Fire! album by Michael Franti & Spearhead http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeuLsNV4CA to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

Are We All Socialists Now? Not at All by Robert Higgs http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/61504.html Is socialism as dead as the dodo? Its new guise as participatory fascism Authoritarian sociopaths are always on the lookout for new ways to blame the marketplace and go where they haven't gone before with coercive programs, be they in education, energy, or health care Authoritarian sociopaths engage in a constant process of breaking things and then breaking more things while trying to "fix" them Two of the wealthiest participatory fascists: Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Talk With UNL Students About Much More Than Money by Steve Jordon, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/260603/bill_gates_and_warren_buffett_talk_with_unl_students_about/ Authoritarian sociopaths waste the loot they steal from those who don't waste it (productive people) People are hoodwinked via indoctrination and propaganda--and many pick the low-hanging fruit of governmental jobs and contracts Dreaded participatory fascism health-care headlines: http://www.smartbrief.com/servlet/wireless?issueid=0609794D-1FD7-4B20-836F-72B0230FA9EF&sid=72af7153-ad2d-4c88-ac7b-16b89b6c75b2 What would happen if people kept their money away from the authoritarian sociopathic programs? By what right, standard, or code can some people presume to "let" other individuals makes their own choices? No right, an unjust standard, and an immoral code Government delivers the lowest possible quality at the highest possible price Not only does the emperor have no clothes--there is no such thing as emperor! Because governmental action is based on coercion and involuntary interaction, no good can come from it; rational minds require choice to function The mainstream media gives you only a fraction of the info you need to make informed decisions A 'Rebel' With A Cause on CBSNews.com (Michelle Muccio http://www.acton.org/people/mmuccio.php ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1HyZ6x-aI The problem of libertarian concessions to consistent statists is hindering the progression to freedom Each of us exists for our own sake, not for the sake of the State or "others" At the end of the day, Ron Paul is a politician; he writes in "earmarks" to bring home loot to his "constituents" in his "district" and concedes the statist premise of Constitutional government Immigration Reform in 2006? by Ron Paul (statist insanity!) http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul343.html In Defense of Ron Paul’s Earmarks by Eric Phillips (who thinks sound principles can be fudged) http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/phillips5.html Are "the masses" willing to accept personal responsibility? Higgs says "No" CLP says "Yes" In truth, a minority of the American population, the so-called intellectuals and the authoritarian sociopaths are the ones who are unwilling to accept personal responsibility Further reading: Freedom—An Intellectual Issue http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomintell.html A mixed economy confuses the moral issues and ideas in the statist extortion and regulation rackets Philosophers and intellectuals aren't using the method of non-contradictory identification (logic) in ethics and politics one wit The host doesn't need to parasites to survive and thrive; we don't need them (those in government) to survive and thrive Today's America is running on prior capital, which today's level of statism is unapologetically consuming Slumdog Millionaire winning awards is an indication or how morally bankrupt our culture is--the portrayal of wallowing in poverty, filth, and wretched contentment, coupled with rampant immorality and injustice Political systems throughout the world are impoverishing whole countries Is America Number One? by John Stossel (which includes inspecting the differences in starting and running a business in Hong Kong, Calcutta, and NYC--though all within the statist paradigm, in which you don't live for your own sake) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZpDjxIPpFc Widespread panhandling is an example of what government does to economies We don't need anyone hindering our choices or offering us tax dollars (extorted loot), essentially creating barriers to entry to the wealth of a truly free market Sitting in traffic is an illustration of the highway to hell paved by governmental employees Authoritarian sociopaths don't care about your life satisfaction, though they do care about keeping you enslaved Complete liberty asks that you demand the best in your life If individuals aren't being respected, you don't have a respectful society More participatory fascism: Genentech pushes more diagnostic-test regulation http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/02/23/newscolumn4.html?b=1235365200%5e1782424 Galaxy has 'billions of Earths' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7891132.stm bumper music "Everyday" by Authority Zero http://www.authorityzero.com/  http://www.myspace.com/authorityzero to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

Robert Higgs, author of Depression, War, and Cold War, explains the economics of inflation in light of historical experience. In particular, he explains the relationship between inflation and war. Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis; Saturday, 24 January 2009.

Robert Higgs, of the Independent Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the effect of World War II on the American economy. Using survey results, financial data, and the pattern of investment in the 1930s, Higgs argues that New Deal policies created a climate of uncertainty that prolonged the Great Depression. Using consumption data, he argues that prosperity did not return during wartime, but rather after the war when government intervention in the economy subsided.

Robert Higgs, of the Independent Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the effect of World War II on the American economy. Using survey results, financial data, and the pattern of investment in the 1930s, Higgs argues that New Deal policies created a climate of uncertainty that prolonged the Great Depression. Using consumption data, he argues that prosperity did not return during wartime, but rather after the war when government intervention in the economy subsided.

Bureaucrats Never Have a Case by Administrator (aka Marc Stevens)    http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/20/27/ Statism is based on the illogical premise that you don't own your own life A "complaint" shouldn't be confused with a "case" The Stockholm Syndrome, writ large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome IF IT’S NATURAL TO BE FREE, WHAT’S STOPPING US? http://completeliberty.com/chapter9.php "Citizens" and "States" don't really exist; they're unjust legal fictions The words on paper crafted by bureaucrats are necessarily open to vast interpretation, and many of words spell injustice The Constitution’s Problems: Article I Section 8...Sadly, A Template For Disaster http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#47 Once you allow taxation, you open society up to unending tyranny, saying in effect that extortion is good and proper and useful The two absolutely essential elements of legal standing: 1) violation of a legal right and 2) personal injury The unjust laws of the Nanny State create "criminals" out of everyone and generating constant "revenue" for the terrocrats The problem with our society today is not strictly the authoritarian sociopaths in the insane institution of government; it's all the people who are either tuned out or tacitly or directly support violent ideologies; mostly slave-on-slave violence keeps us enslaved Why does society need the monstrous contradiction of government, the preeminent violator of individual rights? Such a meme only promotes low self-esteem and perpetual enslavement "Tax cases" are an indication of how truly sick and twisted our culture is--governmental employees are putting people in cages who've violated no one's rights! Statists allege (but never prove) that the "State" has a legal right to "tax revenue" (your money) and governmental employees are "injured" when they don't get their extorted money "No attempt is made to put such allegations in an 'indictment' because it’s impossible to establish factually how an obligation to file a 'tax return' was created. To prove an obligation or legal right was created, there must be a connection between the people asserting the right and the person who allegedly has this obligation. Statists immediately point out the 'constitution.' And that is the point where they lose; and lose big time." Basically, people in government seek to deprive individuals of self-ownership and property rights simply by virtue of their geographical location, essentially claiming that we are born enslaved It's monstrously contradictory to claim the "right" to deprive innocent others of their rights to self and property The Constitution binds or obligates no one and created nothing; no one today has signed or agreed to it as a contract, except perhaps some brainwashed governmental employees, those who really need to unbrainwash themselves by reading the following: No Treason. No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority.  (1870).* http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6 "The State" can't be a valid plaintiff; it's at best a fictional third party; "The State" has no standing in any case, not even regarding real crimes such as murder "There is no such thing as a legitimate government, so nothing they do is legitimate regardless of the endless red herrings statists throw up." "Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government." Either you're for voluntary social interaction (complete liberty) or you're for anti-social human interaction (statism) "...statism and it’s supporting theology are not here to promote freedom or protect 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'; it’s mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of anti-social individuals who are so desperate to 'protect' us they are willing to kill us and steal our property." The libertarian movement is crippled by the unwillingness to differentiate those who want a voluntary society and those who do not; any libertarian who promotes "limited" government or any form of statism whatsoever is engaging in this monstrous moral contradiction in society All governmental courts operate outside the bounds of natural and objective law, i.e., a voluntarily funded and provided legal system; statist courts, regardless of their rhetoric (used for public relations), are necessarily invalid Prosecution of alleged rights-violators must involve restitution and reparations; the ingenuity of justice service entrepreneurs will probably entail many elements of the insurance model As we transition to complete liberty, the need for rights-protection services becomes less and less; the threat against our lives and property will be extremely remote in a society of complete liberty, because the biggest violators of rights (governments) will be absent The only way to clarity in these matters is to reassess the nature of one's volitional capacity and one's fears of others, which entails addressing the moral corruption and authoritarianism in family life; "Do this because I said so" is the same as "Obey this law (because we wrote it down)" Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet? Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2366 The Timeless Allure Of Communism http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15 Government needs to make slaves out of adults (property tax payers) to indoctrinate future tax payers (kids in schools of government) "Remember the government's motto: you've got money, and we want it." "Therefore, in the present distressing circumstances, we may be warranted in asking: is our politico-economic system finally going smash in a frenzy of monetary inflation, bailouts, and government takeovers? We’ll know the answer pretty soon." So, what can we do? Focus on passing moral judgment; point out to others the coercion at the base of society (the gun in the room: http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html); and, get people out of your life who behave in morally corrupt ways and advocate coercion Ultimately, it's either statism or voluntarism; mutual respect of persons and property is the ideal bumper music "Gimmee_Dada Orwell-REMIX" by Roger Grant and Dada Orwell (aka Dave Ridley) http://www.politicalgraffiti.com/nhfree/music/Gimmee_Dada_Orwell-REMIX.mp3 to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

Must the Government Combat Americans’ Addiction to Foreign Bananas? by Robert Higgs http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/53228.html banana crises sidenote: http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/24/the-great-banana-panic-continues/ Understanding free market economics and international trade, for the umpteenth time Resistance to the truth is aided by rationalizations http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html Is Richard an 'merican?... Keene Man (Russell Kanning) to Auction Off Vote by Kat Kanning http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/209 Exposing the hypocrisy of political vote buying "Representatives" don't represent you; don't fall for the slavespeak THE ANATOMY OF SLAVESPEAK by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml Statement from Jason Gerhard (incarcerated friend of tax resistors Ed and Elaine Brown) http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/197 Imposing "services" at gunpoint: the essence of government Parents forcing children to do things, which leads to uncritical acceptance of politics The Meaning and Value of Gold by Glen Allport (in reference to growth of government pie charts) http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/allport/allport2.html Self-esteem versus rationalizations and defense mechanisms No Such Thing as a Good Cop by Larken Rose http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/203 The horribly dangerous authority myth--the denial of personal responsibility "...committing immoral violence is an unavoidable part of every cop's job." (LR) The disorder created by government (and authoritarian parenting) Simple rules for persons in a free market: Don't lie, cheat, and steal What is the ~nature~ of parental influences? ~How~ the messages are delivered makes all the difference Introducing, particularly to adolescents--via the Web--the anti-authoritarian anarchistic philosophy, which is a kind of psychotherapy to deal with the various abuses of one's will by others, by family, culture, and governmental "officials" Authentic, independent challenging of "authority" versus inauthentic (typically collectivistic) revolting against it and replacing it with yet another "authority" People's ambivalence about anarchy Intro to Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html Corrupt power cannot withstand moral courage Implications of the "against me" argument 927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3 http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/ Setting the standard for rational debate Defending the Undefendable: The pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society by Walter Block http://www.mises.org/store/Defending-the-Undefendable-P136.aspx http://mises.org/books/defending.pdf One way to create a better world (especially for yourself): By not collaborating and compromising with those who forward evil premises http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html Errors of Knowledge vs. Breaches of Morality by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/errorsofknowledge.html Nullifying the will of others: the essence of the love of domination ("authority") Respect presupposes a sovereign use of consciousness--which is why the initiation of force is NOT to be tolerated Objectivists distorted use of moralization Email dealing with the non sequitur of minarchism and fallacies about "human nature" We can't escape philosophy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/philosophy.html The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=552 The trader principle (value for value) as part of the virtue of independence Japanese researchers craft "e-skin" to let robots feel by Donald Melanson http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/japanese-researchers-craft-e-skin-to-let-robots-feel/ Getting corrupt relationships out of your life and challenging slave-on-slave violence--thus fostering a better, happier, more courageous self, and a better society The Next Thing... by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_paOt6_ZI 948 The Next Thing (Part 2) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/25/ the backstory: Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/ bumper music "Politik Kills" by Manu Chao (Politik kills db remix DUB+vox_mastered) http://www.manuchao.net/ download it and check out all the remixes! http://www.politikills.com/les-remix.php to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697  

Murray Rothbard popularized the concept of the welfare-warfare state. He didn’t like either of them. He knew that if the state was doing anything there was plunder involved. Welfare was any handout from the government to anyone. One book that handled warfare and welfare systematically was Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs.Imperialism and social reform cover the same relationships. Many tried to reconcile government with liberty. They called themselves Progressives. They’ve loved warfare and its welfare opportunities. The Cold War was perfect for this agenda until the Soviet collapse took away the enemy. Stromberg mentions many historians and their books on this topic.From the 2001 History of Liberty seminar.