economics

Even The Hobbits Wanted Small Government

Hobbit Party - Tolkien's Hobbits Wanted Small Government And Got It Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline to Jay Richards, one of the authors of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot, a new book out today to coincide with the release of the movie tomorrow, the third installment of The Hobbit series. Check out today’s transcript […]

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Interviews

Ron Paul – Hey Fed! It’s The Free Market Stupid, Pt I

"In 1971 it happened, and that’s when I started speaking out [about the Fed.] Really nobody listened. There were a lot of seeds planted about sound money, especially by Murray and others, and Mises. They talked about this. There was no audience out there. I would go to campuses, when I first went into Congress, and I would get 20 or 30 people come out and maybe convert one or […]

December 30, 2014 21

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman – Gruber Voters And Bill Clinton’s Moral Order

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Of course, we would be in favor of a total embargo against the appointment of any new federal judges anyway. It’s not as though they need any more. It seems to me that they are constantly overworked as is. So maybe if just by attrition they start paring down the ranks of the federal judiciary, then some state courts and state legislatures may become acquainted […]

November 24, 2014 3

Transcripts

Government Price Controls In Emergencies Never Work

Austrian Economics 101 Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "For those of you that are free marketers out there, I’m not breaking any news here. It shouldn’t go unnoticed, though, that as soon as an event like this happens, the first people that want to jump on the accusation train and start hurling all manner of epithet and calumny against those that would raise the price for something like water, it’s […]

August 12, 2014 6

Transcripts

Marriage Is For Bringing Forth Children, Not Buying TVs

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "From today’s Pile of Prep you’ll find this at The Imaginative Conservative website yesterday, Joseph Pearce, who is the author of one of the latest and best books, a biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It’s on my reading list. It’s all too often forgotten in these heady days of socially-engineered change that children are always the bottom-line. Their absence leads to an aging population in the […]

May 19, 2014 7

Transcripts

Why FCC Wants Net Neutral Control Of Internet

The FCC Wants Control of Broadband Providers Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "We discussed the Internet being taken over by the FCC. This is attempt number two of the FCC trying to gain control of the levers of Internet power. It’s easy to figure out why they would want to do this. What I don’t understand, or now that I think about this -- there’s a story in the Wall […]

April 28, 2014 5

Daily Clip

Rothbard – Government Debt Is Worse Than Private Debt

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "If you are one of those that is in the employ of, as an example, one of these companies that is part of the military-industrial complex, is building bombs to destroy property in countries you can’t point to on a map while we are not at war with any country, you are partaking of this. What is so hard to understand about this? [mocking] “Mike, […]

April 3, 2014 4

Transcripts

Debt Makes The NSA & War Possible, The Fed Makes Debt, See The Problem?

"There are a couple of ways you can think about the national legislature’s debt. One of the ways I suggest you think about it is that this is future pain. That’s what it is, future pain, future misery, and future tyranny. If there is an actual effort to pay the debt or to honor the commitments that make up part of the $222 trillion debt, that would then require a […]

January 6, 2014 6

Transcripts

Malvasi – Consumer Credit Society Impoverishes Wealth And Soul

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "According to the Reuters News Agency, the Sparkasse Bank in Chemnitz recently issued a MasterCard adorned with the hoary visage of Marx himself. So, now you can get a MasterCard Karl Marx edition. Doesn’t this play right into Marx’s adage that the capitalist would sell the very rope that would be used to hang himself?" Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

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