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Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation

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2025/10/17

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.

Steps in the Right Deerection

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2025/10/17

This week, Dr. David Gordon reviews Ivan Eland's A Balance of Titans. While admiring Eland’s call for less intervention, Dr. Gordon asks why the US needs to intervene militarily overseas at all.

Serfdom with Palm Trees

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2025/10/17

If the individual cannot keep what they earn, cannot build, cannot invest, cannot act without permission, then the income from tourism is nothing but a fleeting consumption and a steady stream of rent for the ruling class.

A Lesson in Persuasion for the Libertarian Cause

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2025/10/17

How best to present libertarian thinking? Libertarians should not depend just on logic, but also upon presenting libertarian ideals in a practical and useful way.

Stiglitz and Capitalism: Remembering that Statists...

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2025/10/16

While some economists are celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to three economists who are relatively friendly to free markets, we should not forget that most Nobel winners have been unrepentant statists and socialists.

Inflation: Slowly the Middle-Class Dies

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2025/10/16

As government spending spins out of control, the Federal Reserve continues to inflate, leaving the economy in a permanent state of inflation. Most Americans will find themselves falling further and further behind.

Trump authorizes lethal CIA ops in Venezuela

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2025/10/16

The US military has been drawing up plans to launch strikes on Venezuela and potentially capture strategic ports and airfields on the path to a full-blown war.

Trump Admin plans to double its bailout of Milei's...

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2025/10/16

The new bailout is said to be a "public-private partnership": a state-sponsored corporatist scheme to bail out investors and Milei.

Housing Has Become More Affordable. The Fed Could...

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2025/10/16

Ironically, normal market pressures would make housing more affordable, but easy money undermines that prospect.

Radicalism, not Conservatism, Is the Answer

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2025/10/15

"...the fundamental problem with the conservatives ... was that they were looking in the wrong direction. The revolution that they were trying to prevent had already happened..."

Socialism Always Leads to Totalitarian Tyranny

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2025/10/15

So-called democratic socialists claim they just want to empower ordinary people through democracy. Socialism, however, invariably must turn into a top-down system of central planning in which the state is all-controlling.

The Symptoms of Collectivism

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2025/10/15

Leaders prone toward collectivist ideals and central planning seize upon these opportunities, thriving on divisive sentiment.

How Civil Rights Activists use the Fourteenth...

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2025/10/14

While progressives love to claim fealty to the First Amendment, they actually have used the Fourteenth Amendment to squash free speech and free expression.

The Nobel (War Is) Peace Prize

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2025/10/14

When it comes to destroying your brand, Norwegian Nobel Committee is the Bud Lite of peace prizes.

Rothbard on Taxation

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2025/10/14

“Taxation is theft, purely and simply, even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match.”

Rothbard on America’s Economic War against Cuba

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2025/10/14

No one opposed communism more than Murray Rothbard, but he also recognized that US policy toward Cuba was unjust, self-defeating, and would fail to accomplish the government’s stated goals of regime change.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt: The...

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2025/10/14

By honoring Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt, the Nobel Committee has recognized that the future of growth depends on innovation, and that innovation begins with an idea. Ideas drive progress, and progress defines civilization.

"The Public Be Damned"

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2025/10/14

The famous phrase was uttered by William H. Vanderbilt, which was interpreted to mean that the capitalists didn’t care for their customers. Vanderbilt knew he worked for his stockholders, but in working for them, he had to provide for his railroad’s passengers.

Rothbard, Populism, and the Elites

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2025/10/14

Newly discovered letters show that Rothbard was a populist as early as the 1950s, and his alleged turn to populism in the 1990s was not a departure from earlier views.

US Senate removes sanctions on Syria

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2025/10/14

US senators through their support behind the terrorist Al Qaeda regime that now rules Syria.

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