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Like today’s central bankers, John Law proposed to “supply the nation” with a sufficiency of money.

When he was in his 20s, having newly discovered libertarian ideas, having read Rand, Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, and others, having met Rothbard and conversed with him at length, Nozick was fired up with excitement.

A man who is obliged to justify his handling of a matter in the eyes of other people often resorts to a pretext.

Plans are already in the works to put the initiative back on the ballot for 2012, which is expected to have higher turnout from young people.

Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University, November 13th, 2010.

Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010.

Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010.

Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman Universityon November 13th, 2010.

Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010.

Weighing in on the side of John Locke, not only on interest rates but also in a general and comprehensive vision of economic laissez-faire that eve

It is a hopeless task to interpret a symphony, a painting, or a novel.

If it were not for the police, lawlessness and chaos would rule; therefore, we owe our safety, our civilization, our very lives to the selflessness

R.C. wouldn't tolerate news stories that referred to the "public schools," for example. His reporters were required to refer to them as "government schools." R.C. himself preferred the phrase "gun-run schools" and used it liberally on the editorial page.

John Locke, the Protestant Scholastic, was essentially in the hard-money, metallist, anti-inflationist tradition of the Scholastics; his opponents,

The collectivist doctrines look upon the individual merely as a refractory rebel.

Part of the experience of reading Newsweek in the early 1960s was a weekly column called "Business Tides." It offered wide-ranging and insightful commentary on just about anything that had anything to do with the economy or with economics.

One of Josiah Child’s main deviations from free-market and laissez-faire doctrine was to agitate for one of the favorite programs of the merc

Recorded 21 October 2010.

Though he devoted much of his life to writing, editing, publishing, and political activism, it isn't really for any of these activities that Jo Labadie should be remembered fondly by libertarians in the 21st century. Rather it was his tendency never to throw anything away.

What if a president took a different direction and sought popularity by expanding rather than reducing liberty?