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2024-10-29 00:27:13 GMT

No words can capture the joy you feel when your newborn laughs for the first time.

2024-10-17 22:10:51 GMT

Aspiring monopolists regularly seek and frequently obtain the assistance of the power of the state to make their control effective.
- Friedrich Hayek

2024-10-17 19:07:59 GMT

Nobody Listens When You're Making Sense: The Problem of (and Solution to?) Tribalism
https://fountain.fm/episode/RWRGwYyzTY560LVbLtMo

2024-10-17 17:18:01 GMT

Dads Against Predators
https://fountain.fm/episode/ty6jVHE4YtcAxZ2K6zGi

2024-10-17 14:55:25 GMT

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2024-10-17 13:49:16 GMT

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Basic Economics

2024-10-17 13:48:40 GMT

The Assault on Our Liberties
https://fountain.fm/episode/3aMyftJyEngxhMYa40Sq

2024-10-17 10:50:23 GMT

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.
- Thomas Sowell

2024-10-16 20:20:43 GMT

Bitcoin Audible Read_850 - Three Doors, Which Will Bitcoin Choose?
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2024-10-08 13:06:52 GMT

Jason Fry Plans for Peace By Preparing for National Divorce
https://fountain.fm/episode/ZzKeZNhLY1SfC30K21Lv

2024-10-03 01:06:37 GMT

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2024-09-24 19:24:15 GMT

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2024-09-23 22:23:09 GMT

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2024-09-21 03:04:41 GMT

The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.
- Friedrich Hayek

2024-09-19 23:13:27 GMT

"The word (capitalism) is tainted. And when people in the streets of countries throughout the developing world chant out their opposition to “capitalism”—meaning, in reality, not genuine freedom but rather unjust dominance by Western powers and their privileged corporate cronies—I think it’s vital for advocates of liberty to be able to make clear that the system of statist oppression the protestors are naming isn’t the system we favor."
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2024-09-17 01:31:16 GMT

"There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2024-09-16 19:37:04 GMT

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2024-08-14 19:13:36 GMT

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It’s not about being "most correct" but understanding that economic phenomena arise from complex, subjective interactions, making precise predictions impossible. The Austrian method emphasizes the limits of economic knowledge, rejecting the idea of economics as a purely objective science, and instead view it as a process of discovering and interpreting human action.

2024-08-03 22:10:25 GMT

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Thanks! I'm truly blessed. 🙏

2024-08-01 21:02:44 GMT

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2024-07-31 11:56:52 GMT

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
- Friedrich Hayek

2024-07-31 00:51:58 GMT

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2024-07-30 08:46:49 GMT

Know Thyself
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2024-07-29 13:31:53 GMT

As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny is at stake.
-Ludwig von Mises

2024-07-27 15:04:56 GMT

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2024-07-27 15:00:08 GMT

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2024-07-26 18:15:10 GMT

Kamala's Palace Coup | Radio Rothbard
https://fountain.fm/episode/F8r3mtP8ypK12Z99JWSr

2024-07-26 15:19:22 GMT

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
- Mises

2024-07-24 21:59:50 GMT

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

2024-07-18 10:05:55 GMT

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2024-07-12 23:16:53 GMT

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2024-07-12 15:04:17 GMT

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2024-07-12 00:24:08 GMT

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2024-07-10 13:43:05 GMT

Nobody Cares About the Federal Debt
https://fountain.fm/episode/LvaQuDKn0vQD7Ya6A537

2024-07-05 10:00:52 GMT

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2024-07-04 00:52:09 GMT

Everything Voluntary ✌️
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2024-07-03 15:51:49 GMT

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of "society" as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us.
- F.A. Hayek

2024-06-30 23:35:21 GMT

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- Thomas Sowell

2024-06-27 23:55:28 GMT

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2024-06-26 19:46:57 GMT

When the course of civilization takes an unexpected turn—when, instead of the continuous progress which we have come to expect, we find ourselves threatened by evils associated by us with past ages of barbarism—we naturally blame anything but ourselves. Have we not all striven according to our best lights, and have not many of our finest minds incessantly worked to make this a better world? Have not all our efforts and hopes been directed toward greater freedom, justice, and prosperity? If the outcome is so different from our aims— if, instead of freedom and prosperity, bondage and misery stare us in the face—is it not clear that sinister forces must have foiled our intentions, that we are the victims of some evil power which must be conquered before we can resume the road to better things? However much we may differ when we name the culprit—whether it is the wicked capitalist or the vicious spirit of a particular nation, the stupidity of our elders, or a social system not yet, although we have struggled against it for half a century, fully overthrown—we all are, or at last were until recently, certain of one thing: that the leading ideas which during the last generation have become common to most people of good will and have determined the major changes in our social life cannot have been wrong. We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly different from those which we expected.
- F.A. Hayek

2024-06-26 16:28:15 GMT

Contemporary events differ from history in that we do not know the results they will produce. Looking back, we can assess the significance of past occurrences and trace the consequences they have brought in their train. But while history runs its course, it is not history to us. It leads us into an unknown land, and but rarely can we get a glimpse of what lies ahead. It would be different if it were given to us to live a second time through the same events with all the knowledge of what we have seen before. How different would things appear to us; how important and often alarming would changes seem that we now scarcely notice! It is probably fortunate that man can never have this experience and knows of no laws which history must obey.
Yet, although history never quite repeats itself, and just because no development is inevitable, we can in a measure learn from the past to avoid a repetition of the same process. One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
- F.A. Hayek

2024-06-26 13:12:24 GMT

Choose liberty over power, persuasion over force. Find ways in which you can leave the world not only a better place, but a freer one as well, for life without liberty is both unthinkable and unlivable.
— Lawrence W. Reed

2024-06-26 10:31:08 GMT

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
— Thomas Pynchon

2024-06-24 16:18:23 GMT

Liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

2024-06-21 10:06:08 GMT

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2024-06-21 09:51:01 GMT

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

2024-06-19 16:56:48 GMT

Why should exchange be so universal among mankind? Fundamentally, because of the great variety in nature: the variety in man, and the diversity of location of natural resources. Every man has a different set of skills and aptitudes, and every plot of ground has its own unique features, its own distinctive resources. From this external natural fact of variety come exchanges; wheat in Kansas for iron in Minnesota; one man’s medical services for another’s playing of the violin. Specialization permits each man to develop his best skill, and allows each region to develop its own particular resources. If no one could exchange, if every man were forced to be completely self-sufficient, it is obvious that most of us would starve to death, and the rest would barely remain alive. Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.
- Murray Rothbard

2024-06-16 00:14:30 GMT

Now the man who seizes another’s property is living in basic contradiction to his own nature as a man. For we have seen that man can only live and prosper by his own production and exchange of products. The aggressor, on the other hand, is not a producer at all but a predator; he lives parasitically off the labor and product of others. Hence, instead of living in accordance with the nature of man, the aggressor is a parasite who feeds unilaterally by exploiting the labor and energy of other men.
- Murray Rothbard

2024-06-14 18:24:50 GMT

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2024-06-14 17:47:19 GMT

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"Mises made a distinction between credit that is backed by savings, and credit that does not have any backing. The first type of credit he labeled commodity credit. The second he labeled circulation credit. It is circulation credit that plays the key role in setting the boom-bust cycle process.
When credit is fully backed by savings — that is, it’s commodity credit — it permits the expansion of tools and machinery. With better infrastructure, it is now possible to produce not only more goods but goods of a better quality. The expansion of real wealth is now possible.
In an unhampered market economy, borrowers are users of savings who make sure that savings are employed in the most efficient way — generating profits. This means that real savings are employed in accordance with consumers’ most important priorities. We can thus see here that as long as banks facilitate commodity credit, they should be regarded as the agents of wealth generation.
In contrast, whenever banks embark on the lending of circulation credit, they in fact become the agents of real wealth destruction.
As opposed to commodity credit, circulation credit is not supported by any real saving. This type of credit is just an empty claim created by banks. In the case of commodity credit, the borrower secures goods that were produced and saved for him."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-explains-difference-between-circulation-credit-and-commodity-credit

2024-06-14 17:23:39 GMT

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
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2024-06-13 19:39:14 GMT

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2024-06-07 15:14:53 GMT

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2024-06-06 21:12:06 GMT

Will Our Deranged Regime Eventually Collapse?
https://fountain.fm/episode/iu4eFC1ATi4bNVUdVO7G

2024-06-05 00:02:54 GMT

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2024-06-01 01:14:46 GMT

'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
- Joseph Sobran

2024-05-29 15:00:26 GMT

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2024-05-25 12:08:37 GMT

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It’s about the interests of States. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.
- Egon Bahr

2024-05-25 11:41:07 GMT

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2024-05-23 21:04:18 GMT

How Human Action Guided My Teaching and Research Career Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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https://fountain.fm/episode/wMT03esyR517RK78lVNe

2024-05-23 16:52:55 GMT

Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalism | Robert P. Murphy
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https://fountain.fm/episode/otXZU58PaMxc2aUvjsnc

2024-05-22 19:10:02 GMT

The prevalence of social orders based on private-property rights is not a brute fact of nature such as gravity or bad weather. It is very much the result of deliberate human action. It is true that such an order is in conformity with human reason and that in this sense it might be called a natural social order. But this does not alter the fact that its existence is historically contingent. No law of nature has brought about private-property orders. Private property is a fragile cultural achievement. It can be realized if human beings act with the moral resolve to respect private property even though nonrespect might benefit them materially, especially in the short run. And a private-property order can only be maintained if this moral commitment is constantly renewed, which in the long run is only possible if that order is understood and loved.
- Jörg Guido Hülsmann

2024-05-22 16:19:34 GMT

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2024-05-21 22:17:06 GMT

Bitcoin Magazine - Consensus Changes w/ @npub1a2c…w83a
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2024-05-21 16:35:56 GMT

As a remedy for the undesirable effects of interventionism they ask for still more interventionism.
— Ludwig von Mises

2024-05-20 22:05:44 GMT

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2024-05-18 19:31:08 GMT

In abolishing economic calculation the general adoption of socialism would result in complete chaos and the disintegration of social cooperation under the division of labor.
- Mises, Human Action

2024-05-18 00:02:39 GMT

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2024-05-17 19:35:05 GMT

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Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away; we must never let them take it from us.

2024-05-17 15:53:55 GMT

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2024-05-17 09:19:04 GMT

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
- Ludwig von Mises

2024-05-16 12:57:33 GMT

Philosopher Michael Huemer on the Problem of Political Authority
https://fountain.fm/episode/6mkOUSqDgouYX8bkuULs

2024-05-16 12:54:42 GMT

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2024-05-14 01:36:34 GMT

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
- Wittgenstein

2024-05-13 12:47:21 GMT

Bitcoin Audible Read_820 - The Bitcoin Stack
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2024-05-10 19:30:55 GMT

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2024-05-09 18:28:42 GMT

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2024-05-08 22:07:43 GMT

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Haha nice! That's literally the next book in my queue!!
Half way through Legal Foundations of a Free Society by Stephan Kinsella
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2024-05-07 14:57:34 GMT

Listen to @npub1ug8…d9ry and reject ossification
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2024-05-06 13:22:02 GMT

The state is not a social institution imbued with mystical powers, but a gang of individuals who, like any other bandit gang, are trying to get as much out of you as they can.
~ Murray Rothbard

2024-04-29 00:29:30 GMT

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2024-04-27 19:39:07 GMT

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2024-04-27 19:24:07 GMT

Secession is not about creating a new government; it's about dissolving the existing one. It's about individuals reclaiming their sovereignty and their right to self-governance.

2024-04-27 12:40:59 GMT

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2024-04-24 16:44:46 GMT

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2024-04-23 20:18:43 GMT

A Message from the Great Dr. Ron Paul
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2024-04-20 23:05:09 GMT

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2024-04-19 18:27:40 GMT

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2024-04-18 19:31:37 GMT

Stephan Kinsella on Rothbard's Contributions to Legal Theory
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2024-04-15 02:18:06 GMT

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2024-04-11 13:11:21 GMT

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2024-04-09 12:37:27 GMT

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2024-04-06 14:34:37 GMT

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2024-04-05 21:53:35 GMT

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2024-04-05 10:43:05 GMT

We should strive for the separation of Money and State, rather than pursuing better money for the State.
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2024-04-05 02:35:55 GMT

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2024-04-04 18:15:14 GMT

The concept of spontaneous order highlights the fascinating phenomenon in which complex patterns and structures emerge from the interactions of numerous individuals, without being orchestrated by a central authority or designer. This idea posits that decentralized decision-making, rather than top-down control, plays a crucial role in shaping social and economic phenomena. As Friedrich von Hayek astutely observed, “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
At its foundation, spontaneous order is not merely a theoretical construct but a philosophical perspective that emphasizes the importance of humility in understanding human affairs. Recognizing the limitations of human knowledge and cognitive abilities, spontaneous order acknowledges that it is impossible to fully comprehend or direct the intricate nature of social interactions. Instead, spontaneous order arises from the cumulative actions of individuals reacting to incentives and expressing their personal preferences within a framework of well-defined property rights.
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