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My Fourth of July with Per Bylund

Long gone are the previous American Independence days when I naively participated in all of the practices that bespoke of true American patriotism. Sure, barbeques are still good. Fireworks, ok. Seeing Old Glory everywhere–fine. Parades are still horrible. But, all of the attendant feelings I was supposed to experience and honestly wanted to believe, have…
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‘Bread and Gold over Mice and Fleas’: Augustine and Aquinas as Proto-Austrians

One need look no further than the Mises Wire (and Hot H2O History, by proxy) to discover the profound–dare I say providential and as such, inevitable–confluence of the best of Catholic thought and the Austrian school of economics. In dual submissions, Connor Mortell highlights just how much St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas discovered truths…
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Fastballs and Fastbulbs

  • One hundred plus years ago, the Black Sox made news, supposedly because out of destitution, they gambled (threw) the World Series in 1919.
  • Almost four hundred years ago, Dutch merchants made huge bets on tulip bulbs.

Sound dissimilar to totally unrelated? NOT SO!

Find out why here.

*Paper defense delivered at the Mises Institute Libertarian Scholars’ Conference, 2019

Fear that Flatlines the Patient: The Rooseveltian Oath= Do All Harm

How weak is a civilization that the free functioning of people and their commerce can be crippled, and perhaps in the end destroyed, by hapless morons parading their power yet simultaneously revealing their incompetence? The backdrop is a manufactured pandemic that pseudo-intellectuals assert–based on flawed World Health Organization numbers–is more virulent and deadly than the…
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I Get the BEST Presents!

Rolling with my homies–Mean Girls Style. That’s me in the passenger seat with my man Grover Cleveland at the wheel and Frederick Hayek in the back. Mises and Rothbard are in the Mercedes ahead of us in the Libertarian caravan… Onward. Thanks Spencer! __________ Need more? The great economist Robert Higgs defends the seemingly defenseless…
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