Over on my Facebook page , Bob Murphy writes: “You guys know that Tom and I are incredibly modest, so believe me when I say this event will be epic.” We’ll bring back…
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To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have been oddly exhilarating for the poor…
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The end-the-Fed movement is the natural outgrowth of free-market economics. The Federal Reserve is a government-created institution with government-granted monopoly privileges. Its interventions into the economy give rise to the…
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I have a bunch of events before this, but surely you’re not going to miss the return of the zombie, are you? Join Bob Murphy and me for two hours of fun in New…
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You guys know I don’t spend my time on institutional feuds among libertarians. I defend myself when attacked, but otherwise I’m too busy to bother. But the Cato Institute has…
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When you debate libertarianism or the free market on the Internet, you are guaranteed to hear, in addition to the inevitable roads objection, “Why, ‘monopolists’ would dominate the world! Wherever…
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This Glenn Greenwald column is worth returning to in light of the Bradley Manning guilty plea. An excerpt: The sadistic conditions to which he was subjected for 10 months – intense solitary confinement , at one…
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Seth Mason writes : During the “fiscal cliff” non-event debate, I noted that defense cuts would be okay because the  U.S. military budget is far greater than the total defense spending of the rest of the developed world . (Considering the military quagmires in which we’ve found ourselves mired in recent…
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