Interview with J. Neil Schulman
On Monday September 10th at 8:00 ET, award-winning novelist and movie producer J.Neil Schulman will be available for Q&A at the Laissez Faire Books blog. His movie adaptation of his novel Alongside Night is currently shooting with Kevin Sorbo starring as Dr. Vreeland. SF author L.Neil Smith and graphic novelist Scott Bieser will be in… read more
Read More CommentLack of Liquidation
It’s four years after the crash in the housing market and the economy is still in a funk. Sure the stock market has recovered, but unemployment remains high, housing prices continue to go nowhere, and plenty of unemployed 50 years olds worry they will never work again. Just how long are we to wait for… read more
Read More CommentJ. Neil Schulman…Take a Bow!
A MUST-ATTEND FREEDOM EVENT: Presenting J.Neil Schulman and “Alongside Night” Celebrate a joyous blow for freedom: the shooting of the movie “Alongside Night” has commenced! Written by Prometheus Award winning author J. Neil Schulman and starring Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Kull the Conqueror), “Alongside Night” is a prophetic movie about the economic and social collapse of… read more
Read More CommentWhat to do now?
Many liberty-minded people are asking what to do now. I shared some thoughts with Bad Quaker. Listen to the podcast. Also see this post from the Liberty Restoration Project.… read more
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Give It Up!
Have you gone anarcho? I mean, have you given up on the idea that the government can do things for us that we (society) can’t do? Millions of people have taken this step. I did this years ago, and it has saved me an astonishing amount of frustration, money, and time. Getting to that point… read more
Read More CommentWhat Have the Politicians Done to Make Us Freer?
Liberty is the right course, but what has the political class done to bring us more, rather than less? Every day, in every way, the political class is pushing more control, more empire, more impositions, more gouging and looting. It’s clockwork, and fully expected. To list them all, especially concerning the advances of the police… read more
Read More CommentOh, the Chinese Did It
CNBC reports that a new study by the Erasmus Research Institute of Management claims that the housing crisis was caused by the “savings frenzy of the Chinese.” NYU associate professor and PHd candidate Heleen Mees penned a thesis indicating, The build-up of savings in China and oil-exporting nations, which were heavily skewed towards fixed income… read more
Read More CommentInterview with Gary Chartier on his Club-released book
Professor Chartier’s book, The Conscience of an Anarchist, is released into the Laissez Faire Club on Friday. Join to download.… read more
Read More CommentTouring Real Life through Real Markets
Mom loved vacation trips. Her idea of a vacation, however, was sitting in a canopied bus listening to canned talks about headline attractions you could see out the window. We saw buildings. We saw gardens. We saw canyons, towers, battlefields, and monuments. The tour guide droned on, and the passengers nodded at sight after sight.… read more
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #7
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
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I conducted an interview with patent attorney Stephan Kinsella on this topic that Club members received the minute it was uploaded. I also have an interview scheduled with professor Gary Chartier, author of this week’s e-book of the week, The Conscience of an Anarchist, and I’ll post that for Club members too, and then for… read more
Read More CommentWendy McElroy on BookTV
Watch on BookTV. You can immediately download Wendy’s book The Art of Being Free as part of Laissez Faire Club membership. You can also buy it in hard copy.… read more
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Read More CommentThe Persecution of Lance Armstrong
The whole case of Lance Armstrong struck me as outrageous but I asked Skip Oliva, who follows such cases very closely, to weigh in. Here is what he said: The World Anti-Doping Association is the sports equivalent of the TSA. WADA and its American counterpart, the USADA, claim a government-backed monopoly over “drug testing” in… read more
Read More CommentThe Crazy Implications of Consistent Application of Intellectual Property
The court judgement against Samsung in the suit brought by Apple strikes at the heart of a crucial feature of the market economy: the ability of producers to emulate and compete with market success stories. Without that ability, the market breaks down. It becomes not competitive but monopolistic, a world where innovation stops and enterprise… read more
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New Titles at Laissez Faire
The book everyone has been waiting for is now available for pre-order. It is Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s The Great Fiction: Property, Economics, Society, and the Politics of Decline. This is his first major book since Democracy, The God that Failed. It is a book for the ages but also for right now. He get to the… read more
Read More CommentSlave-Based Schooling, Back in Session
If you want a pizza, you pick up the phone. If you need a pair of shoes, you snag one at the outlet mall or order online. These are free-market goods, available in endless variety, quality, and price, all produced for you and me. But let’s say you want your child to get an education.… read more
Read More CommentJeffrey Tucker interviews Fr. Robert Sirico
Fr. Robert Sirico interviewed by Jeffrey Tucker from Agora Financial on Vimeo.… read more
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #6
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 CommentA Beautiful Anarchy, in print
It will be available in the store soon. The LFB art director is here holding the book.… read more
Read More CommentInterview with Mises Canada
Read More CommentMcElroy audio article
Thank you Alex Peak for making audio versions of these pieces by Wendy McElroy: The Myth of the Greater Good What Does Grass Roots Mean? Freedom is Dead; Long Live Freedom Review of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State… read more
Read More CommentExplaining A Beautiful Anarchy
Tucker’s Take – A Beautiful Anarchy from Agora Financial on Vimeo.… read more
Read More CommentBond Frenzy
The struggle for yield is prominent in today’s New York Times with a piece entitled “Risk Builds as Junk Bonds Boom” and “Muni Bonds Not as Safe As Thought.” This isn’t new news around here. I wrote on this theme a couple months ago. Investors are doing just what Ben Bernanke wants them to do,… read more
Read More CommentAmazing Images from FreedomFest
Judd Weiss has posted a remarkable photo gallery of the events at FreedomFest. Enjoy!… read more
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #5
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 CommentAnarchy Starts Friday
“This is either history making,” Addison Wiggin, the president of Laissez Faire Books, said to me this morning, “…or not.” “Is it the first time,” he asked after a short pause, “a digital society has released a manifesto on economics?” “Ummn,” I responded, “I don’t know.” “Is it really a test of our best idea?”… read more
Read More CommentHow Is the Fed Working Out ?
“The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee shall maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the economy’s long run potential to increase production, so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.”… read more
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