Hayek on “Masters of Money”
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Read More CommentAudio version of Tucker’s article on “Lincoln Uncensored”
I received quite the positive feedback from this piece, so I recorded it:… read more
Read More CommentExplaining the upcoming Senate filibuster fracas
REID PREPARES TO NUKE THE FILIBUSTER By Wendy McElroy [To access the many embedded links, please click here.] A filibuster is the procedure within a legislative body through which one member can extend debate and, so, delay or obstruct the vote on a proposal. In theory, its purpose is to protect the rights of a… read more
Read More CommentInterview with Joseph Fallon on Lincoln
Please take a few minutes to listen to this, and join the Club to get the book right now… read more
Read More CommentWither the American Dream
While Americans want to pound their chests and insist that the good old U.S. of A. is still greatest country on earth, sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes from outside to determine what’s really going on. Janet Daley was born in the U.S., taught philosophy, moved to Britain, and now writes for The… read more
Read More CommentDoug French on Bad Quaker.
My chat with Ben Stone of Bad Quaker.… read more
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Lincoln Uncensored Released
The Laissez Faire Club is devoted to truth in service of liberty. We aspire to provide you with the tools to see the world clearly and, in so doing, help you find a path toward living a freer life. This is why we chose this week’s book, which is Lincoln Uncensored, by Joseph E. Fallon.… read more
Read More CommentHow we found ourselves
Here is my article on the GPS for The Freeman: It must have been about five years ago when I picked up my first GPS device to use in my car. I got the idea after seeing this in operation in a friend’s car. It was a luxury item for the rich. After a few… read more
Read More CommentTAG Update: Bankers, Harry’s Got Your Back.
Ever since the 2008 meltdown, taxpayers have stood behind the transaction accounts of the largest depositors in the country by way of a program called Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG). This program is a continuing part of the government’s bail out of the Too-Big-To-Fail banks, as I wrote about a couple months ago. TAG was supposed… read more
Read More CommentHigher Cause, Installment #20
Higher Cause, the complete novel, is now available in EPUB and MOBI e-book formats. You can buy it here or join the Laissez Faire Club and be among the first to grab a FREE copy. For a full list of chapters, see the table of contents. In recent installments… Joseph has returned from Pitcairn Island… read more
Read More CommentFrench the Prophet
As Doug French said, the house is still a dump.… read more
Read More CommentTiny Miseries Add Up to Disaster
Here is the talk I gave at the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey, earlier this year. I’m speaking about regulations and how they are making such a mess of the everyday things we use to make our lives better. Jeffrey Tucker, “One Million Tiny Miseries, Government Policy in Our Time”, PFS 2012 from… read more
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Seemingly Out of Nowhere, Headphone Mania
Sure, we had headphones when I was a kid. They were speakers with puffy foam to fit around your ears and a plastic piece to secure them on your head. They were nothing special. They sounded fine. They kind of made your ears sweaty. Others could hear a bit of what you heard and you… read more
Read More CommentFast, fast cash
Dorian Electra has put the problem of monetary stimulus in a song.… read more
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Wristwatches and eReaders
It was only a couple of years ago when eReaders went from being obscure and expensive to entering the mainstream. I bought a few in succession and didn’t like any of them. It’s a matter of taste but the “e-ink” of the old Kindle, Sony, and Nook struck me as dull and lifeless. Each gathered… read more
Read More CommentWhen the New York Times Gets It Right
It is a notable event when a New York Times editorial gets it right. This time the headline is “A Free Market in the Sky.” Clifford Winston of Brookings takes aim at the embarrassing and idiotic laws that prevent foreign air carriers from serving domestic routes in the U.S. This is straight out protectionism that… read more
Read More CommentFreedom through Technology: How the Digital World Saved Humanity
I’m doing a seminar on Tuesday at 8pm EST. It’s free. The topic is the digital world. I’ll explain what makes it amazing and how it saved our bacon — and also how it is saving the cause of freedom. You can register here. Special thank you to Students for Liberty.… read more
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Economic Lessons of Black Friday
Tooling around at the wee hours on Black Friday, see parking lots full of cars, I didn’t witness any of the hysteria and shopping fights that the media like to focus on, as if to paint a picture of a greedy, grasping American middle class enticed by the prospect of ever more material accumulation at… read more
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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
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