To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names: Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism. - Ron Paul

Why Government Spending Is Driving Up Interest Rates

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Radio Rothbard • Why Government Spending Is Driving Up Interest Rates • Listen on Fountain

Economist Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to discuss how deficit spending and runaway debt is causing price inflation and higher interest rates....

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Bitcoin Audible Read_864 - Bitcoin Core's Loss of Focus by @jamesob @Guy Swann

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In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I read James O'Beirne's "Bitcoin Core’s Loss of Focus" and offer my perspective on its critical arguments.H...

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Mises Media • The Cultural War in Economic Science • Listen on Fountain

The challenge facing economic science is to counter the reactionary counterrevolution by states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation ...

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram

Bitcoin Audible Read_862 - Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance by @Lyn Alden @Guy Swann

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Bitcoin Audible • Read_862 - Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance • Listen on Fountain

What happens when the Fed's one tool for controlling inflation, stops working? The conditions in the market and in our political institutions is su...

Those in power often assume that in their authority lies superior wisdom and thus the right to impose their beliefs on others. - Friedrich Hayek

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. - Alan Watts

The highwayman doesn't pretend he has any rightful claim, or that he intends to act for your benefit. He doesn't pretend to be anything. He hasn't acquired impudence enough to profess to be “protector” & that he takes money merely to enable him to “protect”. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you. He doesn't persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He doesn't keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down & serve him; by requiring you to do this & forbidding you to do that; by robbing more money as often as he finds interest or pleasure to do so; & by branding you as a rebel, traitor & enemy to your country, shooting you without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave. - Lysander Spooner

Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they've met themselves. This is the heart of clarity. Matt Kahn

By fostering division and envy, the state diverts attention from its own parasitism and becomes the arbiter of disputes it creates.