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Life Insurance, the Forgotten Savings Vehicle

Most Americans today know precious little of their country’s history, besides things like certain U.S. presidents and big wars. For example, most Americans don’t know that because of Constitutional concerns, the Eisenhower Administration had to cite the need to quickly move tanks and troops around to fend off an invasion, as a national security justification […]

Prison Break From the Historical Narrative of Webster Tarpley

I don’t even want to post the YouTube here, but if you are curious here is the link to “PrisonPlanet” host Alex Jones’ interview with Webster Tarpley. I am commenting on this because different people emailed me asking me for a reaction, since Tarpley shares their views that an elite group of bankers is taking […]

Rory Sutherland’s Ted Talk

If I told most Free Advice readers, “Hey, here’s a video of a British guy talking about psychology,” they’d be bored. But if I say, “Hey, here’s a guy who has an interesting accent and builds up to praising Ludwig von Mises,” then all of sudden they have to watch the whole thing. (Thanks to […]

Old-School Mises

Vaughn Kraft, one of my frequent Mises Academy students, sent me this email (and gave permission to reprint): A gentleman friend of mine had recently told me a story about his interview with Von Mises to enter the Austrian master’s program. This took place around 1959 or 1960, when Von Mises interviewed him for the […]

Potpourri

==> This article about “how modern men are trained to hate women” is actually really insightful. It’s supposed to be entertaining and has lots of absurd photos, but I actually think the guy makes some good points. ==> Even though he and I don’t see eye-to-eye on everything in the “free banking” argument, I must […]

Murphy on Mises on Money

I thought this particular lecture (from the Mises Academy class that just ended, where we covered Ludwig von Mises’ Theory of Money and Credit) turned out pretty nicely. So I asked The Man if we could put it up for the world, and he agreed. Here is the audio: and here is the PowerPoint I […]

Don’t Mess With Mises

On the plane back from Canada I was going through the relevant portion of The Theory of Money and Credit for my online class. I thought this passage was pretty funny: The most important results of research in the social sciences leave the multitude apathetic, but any set of figures awakens its interest. Its history […]