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If you want to see FDR taken to the woodshed, go to the book Bye-Bye Sweet Liberty, by jwthinkwright, and read Chapter 19, Heaven, an update.
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Malcolm X By Walter Block, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Because of Spike Lee's new movie "Malcolm X," this black leader is once again in the news. In the eyes of some young black males who live in the deteriorating districts of many U.S. inner cities Malcolm's message is...
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I have this professor, he is a nice guy and all but he is more or less a fascist (militaristic Republican who is openly very pro-government + devoted vegetarian just to make things that much creepier). In class he was talking about how the government was nessasary to prevent the abuse of employees by...
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Upon reading " Money and coinage through History ", which I found to be quite exciting and left me wanting more, I discovered that substantial parts were drawn from Alexander Del Mar's book History of Monetary Systems from 1886. Sadly he doesn't show up on Wikipedia and I found few...
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Friedrich von Hayek, the Austrian émigré and University of Chicago professor whose 1944 Road to Serfdom dared to suggest that state planning would produce not "freedom and prosperity" but "bondage and misery, " visited Pinochet’s Chile a number of times. He was...
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Wow, can't believe I missed this and it only got one response. Rothbard was a great economic historian, you can refer to the following works, available at Mises for free in various digital mediums and in print at the Store. America's Great Depression Free: http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf Print...
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I'm curious what some of you have to say about G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island" book? Did you like it? Was it thorough enough or was there any important information you know of that might not have been included by Griffin? Just curious about your thoughts regarding...
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Greetings. A new free audio essay is now available in The Rational Argumentator's Audio Section : “ The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics ” by Ludwig von Mises; Read by G. Stolyarov II http://progressofliberty.today.com/tra-audio/mises-historical-setting/ Special...
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Greetings. A new audio essay - Ludwig von Mises’s “ Liberty and Property ” -- is available to listen to and download at this page . It has also been linked to in The Rational Argumentator’s Audio Section . I hope that you will enjoy it.
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I am currently reading Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done To Our Money? & The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar". I recently came upon a curios passage that states the following: "I need not go through the familiar but fascinating story of how gold and silver were selected...