{"id":11851,"date":"2018-03-26T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2018-03-26T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:18:40","slug":"why-government-never-learns-mises-institute-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/why-government-never-learns-mises-institute-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Government Never Learns: Mises Institute Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to my speech at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\">Mises Institute<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/austrianeconomicsresearchco2018.sched.com\/\">Austrian Economics Research Conference<\/a> this past weekend in Auburn, Alabama.\u00a0 I appreciated the opportunity to pay my respects to Leviathan.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be posting a few outtakes from this speech in followup blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>Mises President Jeff Deist featured much of the speech on his Mises Weekend Update:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Bovard on Why Washington Never Learns\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GQeK52P11iQ?start=281&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the full speech, including plenty of excellent questions from the audience &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Washington Never Learns | James Bovard\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6X-KMcQstY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to my speech at the Mises Institute Austrian Economics Research Conference this past weekend in Auburn, Alabama.\u00a0 I appreciated the opportunity to pay my respects to Leviathan.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be posting a few outtakes from this speech in followup blog posts. 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