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The Fascist Threat

Fascism cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police state, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive state the unlimited master of society. This describes mainstream politics.
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The Righteous Bosses of the New Deal

There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal.

In Defense of Mises's Utilitarianism

When a moral code is adopted in society, approbation and good will for following the code, as well as reprobation and ill will for violating it, become common.

Wrong Medicine for a Sick Economy

The top 1 percent of US income earners pay 38 percent of all federal income taxes, and the top 10 percent pay 70 percent.


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Jeffrey Tucker: An International Rothbard Day?

Our friends in Bucharest celebrate March 2 as Rothbard Day. Here are pictures from the last event. They are proposing that this be internationalized and it really should be. Send your ideas to Bogdan Glavan . ... More »

Ryan McMaken: The homeownership rate is still too high

The AP reported today that the homeownership rate declined to 65.1 percent during 2010, which is the biggest drop since the Great Depression. However, in order to return to a more normal rate of homeownership, the present rate needs to drop even more ... More »

Jeffrey Tucker: The Mises Moment

A paragraph like this would never have appeared in any American paper in the last 40 years. Now it seems commonplace. The New York Times says of the main debate in economics today: There’s John Maynard Keynes on the one side, arguing for deficit s ... More »

Jonathan M.F. Catalán: Job Creation: Jobs v Obama

Daniel Kuehn writes a short criticism of what he deems a poorly reasoned article (and, I am in complete agreement with this assessment) by Timothy Noah, at the New Republic (Steve Jobs, Jobs-Creator).  But, he tries to link job creation by part ... More »

Jeffrey Tucker: The Philanthropy of Steve Jobs

The Chronicle of Philanthropy makes a passing (and mostly implied) point that libertarians have been making for many decades, namely that the real philanthropy of business creators is not how much in company resources they give to charity but rather ... More »

Douglas French: If Mexico's Immigration Law Were Like Alabama's

My article from the O/A News The Alabama Legislature and Gov. Robert Bentley are pounding their chests for passing the nation’s toughest immigration law, but the punk economy north of the border and expanding opportunities south of it were already ... More »

Mises Daily: Political Religions

The Fascist Threat by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Fascism cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police state, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and m ... More »

Ryan McMaken: Team owners: capitalism for thee but not for me

One of the benefits of the present depression is the fact that the voters are grumpier than usual. It's hard to care about your carbon footprint when you don't have a job, and it's now even possible to criticize the federal reserve witho ... More »

Mises Daily: The Extremes

Inflationists in Wolves' Clothing by Robert P. Murphy Just as the interventions of the Hoover administration in the early 1930s led to a massive increase in government under the New Deal and the abandonment of the gold st ... More »

Ryan McMaken: Steve Jobs, RIP

Steve Jobs, one of the most important entrepreneurs and innovators of both the 20th and 21st centuries, has died. Will he receive the sort of veneration reserved to politicians when they die? That's unlikely, although Steve Jobs typically did ... More »

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Mustafa Akyol: Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish writer and political commentator, on the topic of Islam and Liberty. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 12 March 2011. ( 4/14/2011 )

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