By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
Robert Wenzel at the Economic Policy Journal has put together an excellent list of articles that can help anyone interested …
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally …
As expected, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution (H. CON. RES. 112), which he called “The Path to …
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally …
Any time individuals wish to exchange with one another there are transaction costs. The cost of travelling to the location …
Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. From the nanny-state department… The Feds have now mandated that …
Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Last week I mentioned that I would be defending my …
Art Carden is a Christian economist who has a knack for bringing complex subjects down to understandable terms. While he …
This past monday, the Vatican’s Justice and Peace Department issued a statement condemning “idolatry of the market” and calling for …
Have you heard of LearnLiberty.org? If not, you should check it out. It’s a great resource of video content for, …
According to Pope Benedict, “The economy cannot be measured by the maximum profit but by the common good.” I’m still …
By Jeffrey Tucker, originally posted at Mises.org on March 30, 2011. For years I’ve puzzled over the question of why …
I couldn’t be more excited about the conversation going on at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog. The BHL blog is an …
Recapping and highlighting the interesting news this week. I have been in Auburn, Alabama this week attending the Austrian Scholars …
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The Civil War …
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the February 1986 edition of The Freeman. —- Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the …
My friend Doug Stuart sent me Jim Wallis’s response to the renewed tax cuts: The quote that drove me nuts: …
Recapping interesting things in the news and on the net in the past week. Unfortunately, I missed posting this on …
Originally by Edmund Opitz in the July 1991 (41) edition of The Freeman. —- The First Amendment to the Constitution …
Intellectual property, especially copyright and patents, is purely fictitious, a construction of the State. Stephan Kinsella has definitively proved such …
The current Social Security (aka “socialist insecurity”) system is designed as a pay-as-you-go system, in which current workers’ tax dollars pay for the benefits of retirees. And the system is in serious trouble. With increased life expectancy and a declining birth rate, there are fewer workers to support a greater number of retirees. In 1950, there were 16 workers paying for the benefits of one retiree. Today, there are about three workers per retiree, and by 2025 there will only be two. According to the Social Security Administration itself, if unreformed, Social Security will begin running a deficit by 2017, and by 2060 Social Security and Medicare combined will make up 71 percent of the federal budget.
An interesting example of confusion about private property came up this past week. I formerly lived in St. Louis, and …
Yesterday evening, the illustrious U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of …
Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).
I’ve been reticent to post a recap of Mises Circle Houston because I didn’t have any photos of the event until yesterday. But now, everything is here and I’m happy to tell you a little about it.
Book Review of Panderer to Power, by Frederick Sheehan. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2010. Retail: $29.95 For the bulk of my …
My friend Wes at The Humble Libertarian put together a neat list of quizzes that you can take on the …
By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped …
I came across a great video yesterday and was just blown away, for multiple reasons… First, I love soda. Well, …
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