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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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Spengler, Stantz, Zeddemore and Venkman Were Right… What If We’re Wrong?!

Then, it won’t be Slimer or Zuul, the Gate Keeper or the Key Master who end up in the trap. This COVID-19 thing is an unwarranted hysteria that governments local, provincial, national–the world over have created. I mean, how many times do the mass media outlets have to echo the same talking points until someone…
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When You’re Hated on the Left, and When You’re Hated on the Right, You Do the Hokey-Pokey and You’re Hated Even More…

…that’s what it’s all about, for true libertarians, past and present: Bastiat, Molinari, and me. David Hart explains Bastiat’s genius here in that he recognized, yes, the impingements of government on producers, but more so the devastation wrought by central planners on consumers. Both are forgotten groups in history.

Frédéric Bastiat and the State-breakers

Brilliant. Consistent. Principled. As a true liberal or libertarian of today’s stripes, Frédéric Bastiat warred against the state in 19th France wherein there were few allies for him to find. He was to liberty what Jimmy Hendrix was to American rock-and-roll; a virtuoso who died way too young. Still, he lives on though his masterpieces.…
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Capitalism is the Crane-Kick to Socialism’s Cobra (Kai) Effect

Regarding the unintended and not-so-unintended consequences of public, state action, Foundation for Economic Education scholars Antony Davies and James Harrigan discuss the Cobra Effect from colonial India, air pollution in Mexico, and oil production (or lack thereof) in Venezuela. No time to read the whole piece? Check out the ineffable Seamus Coughlin’s great cartoon on…
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