It is appropriate that ‘V for Vendetta’ Day – “Remember, remember, the fifth of November….” – would fall on the eve of congressional midterm elections which are turbocharging sales of alcohol and antidepressants. If I had a six-pack of good beer for every time I’ve heard this is “the most important election in your lifetime,” […]
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Why Government Never Learns: Mises Institute Speech
Here’s a link to my speech at the Mises Institute Austrian Economics Research Conference this past weekend in Auburn, Alabama. I appreciated the opportunity to pay my respects to Leviathan. I will be posting a few outtakes from this speech in followup blog posts. Mises President Jeff Deist featured much of the speech on his […]
MP3 of Elective Dictatorship Interview on Al Korelin Show
I had a jovial chat with Al Korelin, the host of the hardline Korelin Economic Report, in his weekend report on the debility of contemporary democracy. Here are a few of my comments: *”The system that we now have is an elective dictatorship in which the president can dictate almost as much as he pleases and […]