Here are some excerpts from the interview Peter Schiff did for the documentary — now titled The Bubble — we’re putting together based on my 2009 book and New York Times bestseller Meltdown , which took an Austrian/free-market look at the financial crisis.
Why Everything Should Be Abolished
How’s This for a Unique Liberty Candidate?
Dan O’Connor is running for U.S. Congress in New York’s District 12, which includes Chinatown. Unlike the incumbent, Dan lived in China for six years and speaks Chinese. He is worth checking out . Here’s a nice video, showing him interacting with Chinese-speaking constituents who favor commerce and oppose war — Dan’s… Read More
Beware Gold!
Is there anything in this article that isn’t false, a fallacy, or confusion? You have to love how fiscal and monetary stimuli are presented as indisputably Good Things; since a gold standard would inhibit the government’s ability to do those things, gold is a Bad Thing. And… Read More
The Hero
The Atlantic‘s cover: It’s the old something-for-nothing analysis: by buying stuff with money conjured out of thin air, by creating “liquidity” ex nihilo, disaster was averted. Financial disasters are not caused by real imbalances, real capital misallocations, etc. Nope. They’re caused by the lack of… Read More
Anti-Ron Fraudsters in Missouri
Let me state at the outset that I don’t believe vote fraud is the primary (so to speak) reason Ron Paul isn’t leading the pack in the race for the GOP nomination, and I think too many people have jumped from the fact that he… Read More
How to Choose a Candidate
New Mises Blog
The Mises Institute just streamlined its blog, which is now tighter and more focused. Check out Circle Bastiat, a reference to the Rothbardian community of young scholars in the 1950s, which included George Reisman, Ralph Raico, Leonard Liggio, and others. Check it out !
Hosting Peter Schiff: War Powers, Gary Taubes, and More
Here’s the Peter Schiff Show from yesterday, with me as guest host. My first guest, Louis Fisher, is author of the excellent book Presidential War Power ; Gary Taubes is author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It .