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FPF #238 – Putin’s Travels

by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 27, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #238, I discuss Russian President Putin's trip to Germany and Austria. I explore an article by Gilbert Doctorow on the importance of the trip and how Trump's foreign policy has impacted Russia's relationships with Europe. I update news on North Korea, Syria,...

08/20/18 Mark Thornton on Skyscraper Curse and Austrian Business Cycle

by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises institute and Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, is interviewed on the so called "Skyscraper Theory", and his new book "The Skyscraper Curse", about the correlation of new tall...

FPF #235 – Economics of War guest Steven Clyde

by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 20, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #235, Steven Clyde comes to the show to discuss the economics of war. The 2019 NDAA authorized $717 billion in defense spending for a single year. Steven gives his take on Austrian Economics and his analysis of what massive "defense" spending does to the...

Money-Supply Growth Falls Yet Again, Dropping to 116-Month Low

by Ryan McMaken | Nov 8, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

Growth in the supply of US dollars fell again in September, this time to a 116-month low of 3.4 percent. The last time the money supply grew at a smaller rate was during January 2008 — also at a rate of 3.4 percent. The money-supply metric used here — an "Austrian...

Austria Found a Way to Tax Google Searches and Social Media Posts

by James Holbrooks | May 1, 2017 | Blog

Austria — Highlighting the difficulty both public and private establishments can have when it comes to adapting methods in the digital age, it was reported Monday that one government is now trying to tax social media companies. From a report by Bloomberg:...

4/10/17 Robert Murphy on the economy from an Austrian economics perspective

by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Robert Murphy, an author, scholar, and professor, discusses the core premises of Austrian economics; the artificial business cycle of booms and busts; fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve System; and lending policy and business decisions.

Why Fractional-Reserve Banking Would Be Limited in an Unhampered Market

by Frank Shostak | Jan 16, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The so-called multiplier arises as a result of the fact that banks are legally permitted to use money that is placed in demand deposits. Banks treat this type of money as if it was loaned to them, thus loaning it out while simultaneously allowing depositors to spend...

12/7/16 Robert P. Murphy on Austrian economics and his new book Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

by Scott Horton | Dec 7, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Robert P. Murphy, an Associated Scholar with the Mises Institute and author of many books, discusses the Fed-induced booms and busts in the economy and stock market; the bigger-than-ever housing bubble; and where libertarians agree and disagree with Donald Trump's...

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"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...

Who Needs What?

"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...

Whose Plan?

"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...

What Full Liberalism Is Not About

"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...

Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy

These floating dumpsters cost the American taxpayer 500-600 million per ship. The US Navy is trying to garage sell these malfunctioning ships to Greece and they are onto the scam. The Greek Defense Minister is smarter than the average bear. Glad to see that even...

Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia

Mano is back to discuss the image of God in the world.

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Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...

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FPF #238 – Putin’s Travels

08/20/18 Mark Thornton on Skyscraper Curse and Austrian Business Cycle

FPF #235 – Economics of War guest Steven Clyde

Money-Supply Growth Falls Yet Again, Dropping to 116-Month Low

4/10/17 Robert Murphy on the economy from an Austrian economics perspective

Why Fractional-Reserve Banking Would Be Limited in an Unhampered Market

12/7/16 Robert P. Murphy on Austrian economics and his new book Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

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Good Plan Means My Plan

Who Needs What?

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What Full Liberalism Is Not About

Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy

Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia

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Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

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