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“They Said What?!” John Lennon edition

2021-08-06

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2021-08-06

Bob unveils a new recurring series, in which he gives the context of infamous quotations. In this episode, he covers two allegedly shocking quotes from John Lennon, John Maynard Keynes' "in the long run we're all dead," Trump on Nazis being very fine people, Dan Quayle misspelling potato, Obama's "you didn't build that," and Bohm-Bawerk on Karl Marx.

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What Made Rothbard Great

2021-08-06

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2021-08-06

If you don’t mind, I am going to do what men of my age do from time to time, and that is tell you war stories—usually insufferably boring for younger people, but occasionally enlightening if you find that perhaps you are going through a similar trial. I want to talk about my own situation in 1961, ’62, ’63, when I was an undergraduate.

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What Can Your Dollar Do For You? | Why Purchasing Power Matters To Patrick

2021-08-05

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Purchasing Power Matters! Patrick shares what and why it matters to him. Share your thoughts in the comment section below. Tell your story and let the world hear why Purchasing Power Matters to you. Connect with Patrick on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TPS0011 Visit the PPM website for details on how to share your story and to read informative articles. https://www.purchasingpowermatters.co Follow the Purchasing Power Matters social media...

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End the Shutdown, Again

2021-08-05

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2021-08-05

Sixteen months ago, in March 2020, we argued for an end to government-imposed shutdowns of businesses, schools, churches, restaurants, and events due to the covid virus: The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus.

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How the Federalists Bullied Rhode Island into Joining the United States

2021-08-04

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2021-08-04

Doughty, courageous little Rhode Island was the last state left. It is generally assumed that—even by the most staunchly Antifederalist historians—Rhode Island could not conceivably have gone it alone as a separate nation.

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Modern Monetary Theory

2021-08-03

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2021-08-03

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2021.

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Government Land Ownership and Management

2021-08-03

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2021-08-03

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2021.

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Biden’s Rescue Act Targets Americans’ Freedoms

2021-08-02

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2021-08-02

Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act shows that inebriated spending is now the path to national salvation.

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Secession and the Production of Defense

2021-07-27

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2021-07-27

[unable to retrieve full-text content][Chapter 11 of The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2003), pp. 369–413.] Few people object to the private production of shoes or rock concerts.

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The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized | Per Bylund

2021-07-25

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Support Per Bylund’s next book, *Austrian Economics: A Primer" at https://Mises.org/AustrianEconPrimer. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2021.

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Economy, Society, and History

2021-07-25

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2021-07-25

In June 2004, Professor Hoppe visited the Mises Institute in Auburn to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled Economy, Society, and History. Over ten lectures, one each morning and afternoon for a week, Dr. Hoppe presented nothing short of a sweeping historical narrative and vision for a society rooted in markets and property.

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Der freie Markt: ein Segen, kein Fluch (Murray N. Rothbard) | Ep. 59

2021-07-24

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Ein Auszug aus dem Kapitel „Back to the Jungle?“ aus dem Buch „Man, Economy, and State“ aus dem Jahre 1962 von Murray N. Rothbard. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Vincent Steinberg.

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European Unification as the New Frontier of Collectivism: The Case for Competitive Federalism and Polycentric Law

2021-07-24

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2021-07-24

Frankfurt, Bremen, Hamburg, Luebeck are large and brilliant, and their impact on the prosperity of Germany is incalculable. Yet, would they remain what they are if they were to lose their independence and be incorporated?”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1

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Die optimale Geldmenge (Murray N. Rothbard) | Ep. 51

2021-07-23

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Ein Auszug aus dem Buch „The Case Against the Fed“ aus dem Jahr 1994 von Murray N. Rothbard. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Arno Stöcker für das Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland.

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Forced Vaccinations in France Bring Both Repression and Protest

2021-07-23

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2021-07-23

In a speech to the nation just ahead of Bastille Day on July 14 celebrating the French Revolution, President Emmanuel Macron delivered a paradoxical blow to the Republic’s famous slogan: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. He announced a series of measures to speed up the pace of covid-19 vaccinations which undermine individual liberties and threaten a strong political and economic backlash.

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Portrait of an Evil Man: Karl Marx

2021-07-22

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2021-07-22

In the "German Democratic Republic" they tell the story about a weary old man who tries to gain entrance into the Red Paradise. A Communist Archangel holds him up at the gate and severely cross-questions him.

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Fiat Money Economies Are Built on Lies

2021-07-21

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2021-07-21

Now and then, it pays to take a step back to get a broader perspective on things, to look beyond the daily financial news, to see through the short-term ups and downs in the market to find out what is really at the heart of the matter. If we do that, we will not miss the fact that we are living in the age of fiat currencies, a world in which basically everything bears their fingerprints: the economic and financial system, politics—even people’s...

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Paying People Not to Work Won’t Make Us Richer

2021-07-20

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2021-07-20

One of the most important principles of economics is that people respond to incentives. You get more of whatever you incentivize. You get less of whatever you disincentivize. This is irrefutable. The supplemental unemployment payment does both—it incentivizes people not to work, and simultaneously disincentivizes them from working.

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America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard. Complete Audiobook.

2021-07-18

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Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed's policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services.

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What Is the Purpose of the Economy? Carl Menger Explains.

2021-07-17

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2021-07-17

This second part of the series about the Principles of Economics treats Menger’s exposition of the economy. In continuation of the first part, which covered the general concept of goods, the part on the economy treats the role of economic goods in relation to human wants.

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