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Was Friedman Right About Rothbard on Collapsing Banks? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rothbard believed that fractional reserve banking was inherently fraudulent and, its quicksand-like base set up the economy for financial crises. Rothbard was declaring that the very kind of banking a...
A Skyscraper Curse with Chinese Characteristics 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Most economic decision making in China takes place at the local-government level. China has the world’s tallest building and 87 percent of all buildings over 152 meters now under construction worldwid...
Private Property Is the Essence of Liberty 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Privacy is the essence of liberty. Without it, individual rights cannot exist. Privacy and property are interlocked. If both were protected, little would need to be said about other civil liberties. A...
Africa: The Next Major Boom-Bust Cycle? 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The average African’s time preference will need to change if Africa is going have the capital and investment funds necessary for the transformation into a manufacturing hub. But with a tradition of mi...
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The anti-imperialistic tradition in America — and in the world — will be an important element in the course. This tradition acknowledges, as Rothbard wrote, “The State thrives on war ... expands on it...
Paul Cantor on the Technocratic Elite in Popular Culture 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
As for the viewing public, it still responds to films and television shows that champion freedom. That is one of the central themes of my book. The American tradition of independence and self-reliance...
FATCA and the End of Bank Secrecy 19 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
There is little understanding that it was banking secrecy that helped to resist twentieth-century dictatorships and that high tax rates — not money havens — are responsible for tax evasion. The amount...
How to Fight the Modern State 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Everything else falls almost automatically from the ultimate goal, which must be kept permanently in mind, in all of one’s activities: the restoration from the bottom-up of private property and the ri...
Rothbard and the Libertarian Populists 15 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
What could be more populist than to devolve economic power into a system of free and voluntary exchange? Libertarian populism isn’t and can’t be a political movement; the purest libertarian populism i...
The Habeas Corpus Myth 14 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Habeas is a government power — specifically a judge’s power to summon and question a case involving detention. A legal scholar noted: “the more one studies the ancient writs of Habeas corpus ... the m...
