John Hunt’s HIGHER CAUSE
Higher Cause has been an ambitious project from Laissez Faire Books. It’s a serialized novel with timely sweeping themes, active freethinking characters, conflicts affecting the world, spies, guns, explosions, new forms of energy, sinister conspiracies, government plots, nationalization, destruction, and hope. Higher Cause is written by an author whose core values dismiss the initiation of… read more
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #19
Join the Laissez Faire Club and be among the first to grab a FREE copy of the complete e-book of Higher Cause, a serialized novel with timely sweeping themes, active free-thinking characters, conflicts affecting the world, spies, guns, explosions, new forms of energy, sinister conspiracies, government plots, nationalization, destruction, and hope. Installments will be posted… read more
Read More CommentIn Praise of Black Friday
“Black Friday” is not as old a tradition as Thanksgiving but it has certain features that make it superior: Black Friday is not based on some far-flung allegory generated to bolster support for the civic religion. It is wholly to the organic social order, arising out of the actions of people over time and planned… read more
Read More CommentThe eBook Archive of the Club Is Becoming Spectacular
Read More CommentThe Private Sector Saves the Day
Imagine Hurricane Sandy with only government, and not the private sector, to provide for essential needs. Imagine if there had been no big box stores, no charity works, no on-the-fly service providers, no water and gas sellers, and no private generators. The result might have been mass death. The government failed in every conceivable sense.… read more
Read More CommentThe Truth about the Minimum Wage
Excellent short video presentation by the Foundation for Economic Education.… read more
Read More CommentNew Video Podcast with Mises Canada
Interview with Jeffrey tucker of Laissez Faire books on Elections, Hostess, Petreaus, Capital consumption, Bitcoin, Currency, Canadian Tire Money… read more
Read More CommentBeing Thankful for…
Days, weeks, and months ago, I knew that I would have Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, yeast rolls, and three kinds of pie on Thanksgiving. I could be sure of this because of refrigeration, preservatives, packaging, innovations, industry, energy such as internal combustion, and the global division of labor. For 2.5 million years, humanity had little confidence… read more
Read More CommentThe Digital Way to Protest
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #18
Join the Laissez Faire Club and be among the first to grab a FREE copy of the complete e-book of Higher Cause, a serialized novel with timely sweeping themes, active free-thinking characters, conflicts affecting the world, spies, guns, explosions, new forms of energy, sinister conspiracies, government plots, nationalization, destruction, and hope. Installments will be posted… read more
Read More CommentRegulations Kill Woman and Child
News item from Texas: Woman, child die after car careens into Fort Worth pond: A correspondent writes: My main reason for this letter though is I have read with interest your many articles about how the government interferes to make our lives safer, cleaner, more friendly, etc. – usually with frustrating effects. It really hit… read more
Read More CommentA Day in D.C.
Once off the train in Washington D.C. you’re immediately treated to the hustle and bustle of commerce in Union Station. Plenty of the usual fare is available but with D.C. prices. My friend’s pack of smokes cost him just under $13. On the second floor, across from the Uno restaurant sits a sizable Jos. A.… read more
Read More CommentEpub and Mobi of Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech to Congress
Club members get it for free.… read more
Read More CommentJim Cox on his Concise Guide
Today’s book release is the Concise Guide to Economics, by Jim Cox. It was my pleasure to sit down and visit with him on his book and its implications for our time.… read more
Read More CommentRon Paul’s First Sit-Down Interview After Giving His “Farewell Address” To Congress
Well… the timing was rather auspicious. Congress gave Dr. Paul the floor for about an hour right at the moment we were scheduled to meet with him. Below is an interview Jeffrey Tucker conducted with him once he got back to his office. Just shy of 98 minutes, the interview was shot by John Papola… read more
Read More CommentOn Squirrels and Professional Competence
Why do we imagine that politicians should be the leaders of society? It’s strange, because most of us would have no use for a politician in our daily lives. The people with whom we cooperate day to day are from the other sphere of society, not the political, but the social and economic sphere. This… read more
Read More CommentLot Shortage vs. Pent Up Foreclosures
Metrostudy’s Brad Hunter told Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on Bloomberg this morning that builders are running out of lots and that will crimp the supply of new homes in the coming year. This at a time when the the lack of supply has already whittled down the builders’ standing inventory. For instance, Las Vegas… read more
Read More CommentRon Paul’s Final Speech to the House
Farewell to Congress by Ron Paul November 14, 2012 House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as… read more
Read More CommentI, Pencil, the movie
Congratulations to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.… read more
Read More CommentLFClub books, DRM, and the Cloud
As the Laissez Faire Club matures, with an ever larger archive of literature, it is becoming more obvious to members that there are huge benefits to the way we publish and distribute books. We use no DRM, which means that we are exploiting the full technological potential of digital books rather than degrading them as… read more
Read More CommentInterview with Jeffrey Tucker on the future of money
Read More CommentBette, Gisele, and now Jerry O’Neil
First it was Bette Midler (at the suggestion of Aaron Russo), then supermodel Gisele Bündchen, now Montana state lawmaker Jerry O’Neil says US fiat dollars of the Bernanke/Geithner vintage aren’t good enough for him. He’s formally requested that he receive his renumeration in gold for doing the people’s work in Montana. O’Neil told POLITICO “his… read more
Read More CommentFeeding Frenzy in Housing
Yes, Its hard to believe–another housing bubble. Just when some smart guys are telling you to buy. Prices in Phoenix have jumped 30% this year and now the big money investors have taken their money and bids to Atlanta. “It’s a feeding frenzy really,” Alpharetta, GA realtor Cindy Crane told Bloomberg. “Prices are low and… read more
Read More CommentThe Police and You
The most striking change in the culture of the state in my lifetime is the transformation of the police. When I was a kid, we never feared them unless we were up to no good. Now they are to be feared no matter what. To be sure, there are plenty of police who are not… read more
Read More CommentRepublican Darling Throwing the Book at Price System Users
As promised, New Jersey authorities filed civil suits against seven gas stations and one hotel for price gouging during Hurricane Sandy. “New Jersey has a tough price gouging law to ensure that profiteers will not take unfair advantage of people at their most vulnerable — those who have been displaced from their homes, have limited… read more
Read More CommentBack to the Business of Government: Get Bradley Manning
The legendary court system has done its work on Bradley Manning, the whistleblower who dared to stand up to the global empire and its expose terrible war crimes by giving evidence to WikiLeaks. Bradley, who is only 24-years old, will plead guilty in a bargained attempt to avoid life in prison. He didn’t cheat. He… read more
Read More CommentDoug French’s Best Books on Money
From the Gold Money podcast, Doug French talks about books on money.… read more
Read More CommentQuestions and Answers with Newsweek Poland
This is how I answered some questions from Newsweek Poland: – Is greed good? It depends on how you define it. If it means the desire for something that is not yours and the willingness to cheat or steal to get it, it is bad. That vice appears among all social classes, and especially in… read more
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The Generosity of the EPA
Two days after Hurricane Sandy hit the shores in the U.S., the EPA’s Lisa Jackson decided that she would wave some regulations so that people could get fuel more easily. Hence the generosity of the bureaucrat (full letter):… read more
Read More CommentDemocratic Pride
On the evening of November 5 in Madison, Wisconsin, the crowds had already gathered for the long-awaited event. They lined up peacefully, and the lines went around the block. The people were not impatient. They were laughing and talking, grateful for their freedom to choose, and happily participating in the great democratic process of voting… read more
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