Hayek

Do We Live Under Socialism or Oligarchy?

We Do NOT Live Under Socialism But Are Robbed In An Oligarchy Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Socialist. This is another word that is used far too often and used in an inappropriate context. What we have is an oligarchy. We don’t have a socialism. There’s a difference. An oligarchy is where the system is rigged for the haves at the expense of the have-less. There is a massive transfer […]

October 30, 2014 8

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

Liberty

You Say You Wanna Rethink The Union? Consider Secession From Mordor

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – [Mike, mocking] “What’s so big about the big, bad central government? There are a lot of things bad about it. One of the things it does is it desensitizes the citizen. It deprives the citizen of the responsibility of self-government. No longer does the citizen feel as though he is the citizen soldier who is responsible for he and his. Now the citizen is […]

February 11, 2014 8

Transcripts

Obamacare Makes Everybody’s Dreams Come True

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you call the HealthCare.gov website, since the Constitution and the federal leviathan now exist to make people’s dreams come true, if I push the right button or if I have the right coupon code, can I get a free dreamcatcher? You know those things that are made by Native Americans, those dreamcatcher gizmos? It’s round, has some feathers and some leather tassels hanging […]

February 5, 2014 4

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…

December 16, 2013 9

Transcripts

Americans Can Say We Live In A Free Market Economy, But That Doesn’t Make It True

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You have to have trust in the price system and the market. That’s really one of the great fields of unexplored study in mainstream discourse in the United States, the study of actual free market, the way markets work and the way the price system is the greatest regulator and distributor of resources in the history of man. Check out today’s transcript for the […]

July 19, 2013 10

Liberty

Liberty Exists Without The Government’s Permission

I just stop sometimes, I just marvel, seriously marvel at what liberty has created on these shores. We have things that no civilization in the history of Earth, hell, in the known universe, going all the way back to the cantina bar on Tatooine, or Dantooine. No one has had access to the stuff that Americans take for granted. And all you have to do is go to a birthday […]

June 25, 2013 2

Transcripts

Bernanke Continues To Build Up The Economy For A Crash

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – That’s what’s so depressing about this. You want to look at this and believe that our almighty federal overlord magical economic masters have this under control and there’s not going to be a drop off, and that roller coaster climb will just continue ad infinitum, on into infinity, never stop. We all know where this is going to end. Check out today’s transcript for […]

May 10, 2013 9

Transcripts

Social Security Is A Giant Ponzi Scheme – The Money’s Been Spent!

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you need any more proof, as if you needed it, that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and that there is no trust fund, and that the trust fund was squandered and used in real time decades ago, here you go. It’s contained in the story. If the immigration bill the Gang of Eight is proposing is passed, it could provide a boost, […]

May 9, 2013 12