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I'm a blogger here at C4L, and the author of nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers: The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. More about me is available here.





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Posted by Thomas Woods on 01/12/10


Don't forget Campaign for Liberty's reading/listening lists, which I put together to get you up to speed on various topics with as little pain as possible.  Today, in addition, the Mises Institute announces that its huge archive of educational media is now available at iTunes U.  Here's the announcement, and here's the direct link.  Enjoy!





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Posted 01/12/10

boltach
Whitmore Lake, MI
Thank you Thomas for putting these on this website for free. The educational material has been a real help for me, especially the "economics in one lesson"

Geoff
Posted 01/12/10

JohnBaeza
Spring Hill, FL
You are the best Tom. A great reading list!
Posted 01/12/10

jeremy esposito
Bellflower, CA
I feel like a child in a toy store. Thanks to whoever helped with this project.
Posted 01/12/10

T R A V I S
Westfield, IN
A kid in a candy store am I as well! I've listened to many mises podcasts, but found them very difficult to download and add to my ipod. I have actually been listening to a lot of podcasts from 'Library of Economics and Liberty' because they were easily accessed on iTunesU.

This should be MUCH better! I hope they are categorized well.

Tom, do you know anyone from the Library of Economics and Liberty? What is your opinion of the org?

THANKS AGAIN!!
Posted 01/13/10

UEAdmiral
Olympia, WA
This should make much easier my listening to of lectures while I clean house. Very awesome, thank you.
Posted 01/13/10

200000
Beverly, MA
This list is AWESOME! I am currently reading Hazlit's "Economics in One Lesson". What a great way to educate the masses
Posted 01/13/10

tshoes4liberty
Mechanicsburg, PA
Who needs college?
Posted 01/13/10

SurveyinSC
spartanburg, SC
Sweet. I commute to school 40 minutes now and listen to a lot of Mises lectures on the way. The education I get in my drive time make the one I am paying for "look like an idiot" - Thanks also, Dr. Woods for the killer Homer Simpson quote.
Posted 01/13/10

WillBee
Linden, NJ
The hardest part is figuring out where to start.
Posted 01/23/10

TruthSaga
San Jose, CA
My wife is going to leave me because of Rothbard.. thanks Tom haha


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Posted by Thomas Woods on 12/25/09
Last updated 12/24/09


Merry Christmas to all Campaign for Liberty supporters out there.  In case you've never seen this, it's worth watching: Paul McCartney plays a dual role in this music video that recalls the famous Christmas truce during World War I.





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Posted 12/24/09

Tom Davenport
Sacramento, CA
I remember watching this video as a child. I still love Paul, even though seeing him recently open a live show with Magical Mystery Tour made me cringe. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas.
Posted 12/24/09

jwfox1965
Las Vegas, NV
Thanks for sharing Tom and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Posted 12/24/09

Glenn
Cumming, GA
Yes, exactly what we need.

The magic of Christmas is so special that for one day men put down their arms...

so that they could pick them up again the next day and start killing each other.

Now, if they all had just walked away from the battlefield, then that would have been something.

Thanks, Thomas Woods.

Posted 12/24/09

Thomas Woods
Auburn, AL
Glenn, come on back in off the ledge, ok?
Posted 12/24/09

Lauro4Liberty
Havertown, PA
I think it's OK to forget the worlds problem, relax and have a good time FOR ONE DAY.
Posted 12/24/09

Glenn
Cumming, GA
Why? I feel safer out here.

Nice of you to ask, though. Thanks.
Posted 12/24/09

ChrisW
San Tan Valley, AZ
Merry Christmas to you too Tom and all the patriots at C4L
Posted 12/24/09

mulishatrooper89
whittier, CA
how sad
Posted 12/24/09

MarilyninLakeJackson
Lake Jackson, TX
Thanks for sharing Tom, and for all you do. Merry Christmas to all my CFL friends. May you have a wonderful day tomorrow celebrating our greatest gift of all, the birth of our Savour.
Posted 12/25/09

Linda
APO AP, Japan
Hi Marilyn, Tom(s), Glenn and All,
Merry Christmas. I'm home in NH for a few days, enjoying the snow. It seems like I've known you all for years. May all of your days and ways be blessed today and as we head for the new year.


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Posted by Thomas Woods on 12/22/09


That's what Professor Joe Salerno tells Stuart Varney when the latter goes hysterical at the suggestion that "politicians" might want to know what the Fed is up to.

It's extremely difficult to make serious points in the rapid-fire atmosphere of cable news networks, but Joe does a nice job. The very fact that he shocks Varney proves he's getting a needed but previously neglected point of view out there.  (For Joe's free lecture course in Austrian economics, scroll halfway down at C4L's economics education page.)  HT: LRC blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOfggIQAzGk





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Posted 12/22/09

BruceKoerber
Cedar Rapids, IA
I am sure that it is difficult to be put on the spot and to speak eloquently to an unknown audience. Given more time I do not think that Joe Solerno would equate greed with self-interest.

And I am curious about his choice to use self-interest instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to use the word subjective instead. Afterall there is a host of biases associated with self-interest which are cleared up by the acknowledgment that people are subjective and that they act subjectively (and therefore the proper methodology of economics is subjectivism).

Subjectivism is also what has the power to diffuse the hysterical cynicism of the neocon.
Posted 12/22/09

Glenn
Cumming, GA
Rapid fire free-markets with Dr. Joe and the Judge!

Varney was brought in to act as the opposition - his afternoons on FBN show him to be much more aware then he let on here.

That is a great line about central bankers. Tie it together with Bunning's declaration that BerBumbler is a moral hazard and Dr. Paul's designation that he is the world's largest counterfeiter and we got ourselves a brand.

A good talk from Salerno here:

The Gold Standard - Theory and Myth
http://mises.org/MultiMedia/mp3/Salerno/10.mp3

Oh, thanks for the post Thomas Woods - just read the heading.
Posted 12/23/09

ticsani
Boca Raton, FL
Can someone offer some observational explanation?

At issue is:

The North American and European western woman and wearing gold.

Why are N. Am.& Euro women recently adverse to wearing gold or silver jewelry compared to the middle eastern, south Asian, Central Asian, Asian, South American women?
No matter the socioeconomic class these women are in they still love wearing real gold and silver.

Central Banks and bankers from these regions lately have invested heavily in gold over paper currency.

What's the deal-is there a connection??
Posted 12/23/09

Will Benge LD11
Seattle, WA
I could watch this sort of discussion--which included Joe Solerno--all day long. I kid you not.
Posted 12/23/09

Ike Hall
Clarkston, GA
Varney: pwned.
Posted 12/24/09

MichaelKoffenberger
Stewartstown, PA
Where's Joe's new book on money???


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Posted by Thomas Woods on 12/22/09
Last updated 12/22/09


In the comment section on this very blog, someone argued that wars "create great affluence" by means of the industries they stimulate.

I urge -- no, I beg -- readers to put this audio file on their iPods and listen to it.  It's Robert Higgs on the myth of war prosperity.  It is the best brief destruction of this view I have encountered.  We have got to get this issue right.





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Posted 12/22/09

Paul S.
Brighton, MI
Good link, thanks Tom.

My dad at eigthy-one and Fr. Paul at 83 have few recollections of the depression being 12 and 14 in 1940. The common thread both shared involved local support by community and family during the Depression.
Posted 12/22/09

Glenn
Cumming, GA
Thanks for the link, Thomas Woods.

And what industries didn't get stimulated because of the war?

Timely article on the myth here http://tinyurl.com/yff4zot
Posted 12/22/09

rmalfer
Cypress, TX
I agree with you, Mr. Woods. War only profits those that have a vested interest in it. It is not a mystery that the military-industrial complex is working quite nicely for them. They win, while the rest of us sacrifice our very blood for a Pyrrhic victory. What we have now is an endless cycle of needless destruction based upon the logical illogicality of our own government. They tell us who "our enemy of the day" is and we nod and go along with it. It's utter madness!
Posted 01/05/10

TruthSaga
San Jose, CA
The way I understood it was in WW2 we under-consumed to support the war effort but when we came home we put labor to more productive uses. Ex. Manufacturing goods for consumption at home.



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Posted by Thomas Woods on 12/08/09
Last updated 12/08/09


This article by U.S. News and World Report's Rick Newman is bad enough.  He repeats the usual nonsense about "deregulation," and (of course) assures us that "of all the villains responsible for the Great Economic Wipeout, the Federal Reserve is pretty far down the list."

All right, so no one is surprised that U.S. News instinctively parrots the Establishment line.  But now read National Review Online on the Fed (ht: LRC blog).  How many Establishment cliches can they cram into a single article?  It is absolutely unbelievable (as is their low-IQ claim that Ron Paul favors "disbanding the military" [!]).

Every line of this editorial reads like it came from a Fed press release.  One looks in vain for even a shred of intellectual curiosity, the tiniest inkling that the world might be a teensy weensy bit more complicated and interesting than the conventional view -- which NRO adopts hook, line, and sinker -- will allow.  Seriously, am I reading The New Republic?  Is there even a difference anymore?  Pro-Fed, pro-empire, pro-bailout, anti-Ron Paul -- the left-neocons and right-neocons sure have a lot in common.

All gone is the Mises/Hayek view (remember when National Review editors knew who those men were and what they thought about these matters?) that criticized central banking for its destabilizing interventions into the free market.  Instead, we read about the wondrous wizards who keep inflation at bay and smooth out the business cycle.  Yes, there are people who still believe this -- people who actually think of themselves as supporters of the free market! -- even in 2009.





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Posted 12/08/09

American Epirus
Omaha, NE
This is all tainted journalism and I think we should let these publications know that.

If anyone has the time and/or energy, here are the addresses to let these publications know that we can go elsewhere for journalistic integrity if we need to do so:

U.S. News and World Report:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/usinfo/infomain.htm

The New Republic:

http://www.tnr.com/contact-us

Thank you, Tom!
Posted 12/08/09

ticsani
Boca Raton, FL
Mr. Woods as I have realized the left and right in America have merged into the gov't sanctioned party.

These parties are populated by insane clowns drunk on power fuelled by their paid facilitators in media. This is a direct result of 'tyranny by majority' 'winner-take-all' democracy, 'vote like a chimp' Republican-Democrat elections.
The only way this is corrected is to establish Proportional Representative (PR) Democracy multi party election participation as was once in American electoral history before the republican/democrat cronies again co-oped the electoral process with weak unfair legislation.
Posted 12/08/09

tronstevens
Yonkers, NY
The intellectual battle is underway, even at Princeton, where the only outlet is on comments pages of the school paper (which not only always rejects Austrian-perspective articles, but outright ignores them!)

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/12/07/24654/comments/
Posted 12/08/09

Thomas Woods
Auburn, AL
American Epirus: The second publication is National Review Online, not New Republic. I used New Republic as a point of comparison.
Posted 12/08/09

RakeRocter
Los Angeles, CA
write the editorial board at National Review here:

kconnell [at] nationalreview.com

ask her to forward your emails to the rest of the editorial team.
Posted 12/08/09

celticreeler
Rolla, MO

Holy toxic asset, Batman!

I'm having a little trouble reconciling "That intervention...very likely averted a much worse recession" and "most of the money appropriated for the first round has not yet been spent...it is therefore impossible to assess the spending’s efficacy."

What a disappointment to see this from NR!

Posted 12/08/09

TrentonJames
Eau Claire, WI
I can't wait for a currency crisis to wipe the smug grins off the faces of all these fed shills. We should translate these articles into Mandarin and Arabic and plead for our creditors to teach the authors what fiat means.
Posted 12/08/09

maumoynier
Santa Rosa, CA
They're probably being paid off.
Posted 12/08/09

Isomies
Mechanicsville, VA
I used to think most government shills were good-hearted and believed what they were doing was best. Now I think it really is the libido dominandi in effect.
Posted 12/08/09

BruceKoerber
Cedar Rapids, IA
http://classicalliberalismprotection.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Bad Economics Ignored By National Review.

On the Road to Serdom the short-run mentality of bad economics (and of ambitious ego-driven interventionists and their beneficiaries) is like the gas peddle to an immature teenager in a souped-up speedster. GO with reckless abandon with no thought of anything beyond the immediate thrill!

National Review (and its like) litter the sides of the road and stir around as the corrupt machine whizzes by.

Nowhere in National Review does it correctly predict that the wreck will be severe. Unbeknownst to the doubters, the equilibrium power inherent in the divine economy will carry the unConstituional coup careening over a cliff.

When classical liberalism ultimately triumphs the road will be used for peaceful and prosperous commerce.


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