https://youtu.be/obPbgtdqTDI Businesses are always eager for consumers to buy their product or service. On the free market, the consumer is king or queen and the “providers” are always trying to make profits and gain customers by serving them well. But when government...
https://youtu.be/ktNTQUZSUuY All of libertarian political thought follows from the non-aggression principle: that no one, including the government, can aggress against someone else’s person or property. Murray N. Rothbard Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 374 LBRY:...
https://youtu.be/-4NwihBCl6g Once concede the power of the people to consent as well as the natural law of “equal freedom from subjection,” and the logical consequence must be anarchism. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, p. 279 LBRY:...
https://youtu.be/VJdRucRLAdU In short, the problem with police is they are (a) coercively funded, any organization who's 'customers' can't opt out will get worse service than they otherwise would; (b) a monopoly, one cannot start up a competing police agency with the...
33 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Joshua Smith to come on the show. Joshua is running for the position of Libertarian Party Chair next year to remove the controversial Nick Sarwark. Pete and Josh talk about what an LP would look like with a Rothbardian at its head....
75 Minutes Some Strong Language Dave Smith and Pete share a conversation on what Murray Rothbard means to them, and why you should read him. Part of the Problem on GAS Digital Legion of Skanks on GAS Digital Libertas for Download Pete's Patreon Pete's Bitbacker Pete's...
Money supply growth inched up in May, rising slightly above March's and April's growth levels. But overall growth levels remain quite low compared to growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016. March's growth rate, for examples, was at a 12-year (145-month) low. In...
Money supply growth slowed in February, falling to the lowest rate recorded since February of last year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated little since March of last year In February,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=affiFYPfmUw For the segment of the audience that is further along their journey towards advocating a voluntary society, you all remember those moments where your perspective was forever changed. We had a great time discussing and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOFPci0RLg Audio Only Version In this scholarly episode of the podcast, I explain how a post from The Principled Libertarian led me down a rabbithole where I discovered the libertarian "Title Theory" of contracts. I explain, then...
Mance discusses some recent articles he's read by Murray Rothbard that go over the history of Libertarian thought contrasting it with Conservatism. Mance's Book Mance on Twitter
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...
[This classic piece appeared in Ramparts, VI, 4, June 15, 1968. It was the fulfillment of an ideological trend that began a few years earlier when consistent libertarians, led by Rothbard, sensed an estrangement from the American right-wing due to its support of...
