Dr. Ron Paul and Mr. Lew Rockwell on LIBERTY DEFINED: It is Time to Re-think Everything!! 05/21/11 RFM

Posted on May 23, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** LIBERTY DEFINED: It is Time to Re-think Everything!! A BLOCKBUSTER INTERVIEW SHOW with Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell **

 

Dr. Ron Paul has tirelessly promoted the agenda of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom for decades. He is a Republican Congressman from Texas and is one of the most – if not the most – famous people in fight for Liberty.

Mr. Lew Rockwell, who is former Chief-of-Staff for Ron Paul, is the Founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (www.mises.org) and editor of LewRockwell.com (www.lewrockwell.com) which is one of the most visited websites in the world.

We are very fortunate to have these two Titans of Freedom to review and discuss Dr. Ron Paul’s new book, Liberty Defined: 50 Issues That Affect Our Freedom.

Lew Rockwell says in his review of this landmark book:

The worst effect of the state is intellectual. It puts our brains in a prison, simply by defining the terms in which we are permitted to think and speak. The one nonnegotiable point becomes the state itself. You are permitted to argue about what the state’s priorities ought to be (bombs or butter), but not to question the fundamental model of a state-dominated society. Believers in human liberty have played along with this game for too long.

Lew continues that in Dr. Paul’s "amazing book" he addresses:

…the big themes about what liberty is and what it is not. It is not, for example, something that is created by "public policy." It is not a piece of legislation. It does not emerge from the political process. Precisely the opposite: liberty is the absence of all these things. It is what results in the absence of state interference. Liberty’s only fundamental requirement is that the state let society alone to develop, grow, and prosper.

In this interview we discuss with Ron Paul:

**What can the US do to combat terror without engaging in costly wars that drain American blood and treasure on foreign soil?

**Why do we have Unsound Money, and whose fault is it that Americans are made poorer every year?

**How FDR’s "Four Freedoms" radically perverted the concept of Rights and reduced Freedom in America even to this day!

**How government embraces the immoral concept of the "Noble Lie" and why government transparency is essential for Freedom.

**What is the REAL PROBLEM with Government? Is it its form or its size? Can Democracy still work? Or can it only work for smaller groups?

**And finally a vision of how we can see a Restoration of Liberty in our lifetime.

You won’t want to miss this landmark event. Please tell all you care about to listen to this extraordinarily important interview on Radio Free Market.

This show is Created and Hosted by Special Commentators Mr. Drew Hjelm and Mr. Zach Halstead.

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Professor Patrick Barron An Open Conversation 05/14/11 RFM

Posted on May 16, 2011 by radiofreemarket

**LIVE CALL-IN SHOW, An Open Conversation with Professor Patrick Barron**

Join us for this *interactive* show where YOU can call-in and discuss issues, ask questions and get answers – and perspective – regarding ‘What-The-Heck is Happening in the World.’

Professor Patrick Barron is a private consultant in the banking industry. He teaches in the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin and teaches Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa.

Amoung the many questions and discussion points that Professor Barron will address will be:

**Do illegal immigrants steal American jobs?

**Should the government prevent American companies from “shipping jobs overseas”?

**Should the government even try to increase the number of jobs?

**Didn’t child labor laws save many children from cruel sweatshop conditions?

**Would the elimination of public schools mean that children of the poor would not learn?

**Doesn’t the Food and Drug Administration protect Americans from harmful drugs?

**Should the government try to make the U.S.A. energy self-sufficient?

Please Call-In TOMORROW, Saturday May 14th, between 1PM and 2PM CDT at 1-800-313-9443 to this first “Open Conversation” with noted Austrian Economist Pat Barron, who will discuss these and other issues that are important to YOU.

 

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Dr. Joseph Salerno on From Solid Gold to Destructive Paper 05/07/11 RFM

Posted on May 9, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** From Solid Gold to Destructive Paper, the Twentieth Century Debacle of Transforming Money from Good to Bad, with Dr. Joseph Salerno**

Dr. Salerno is the academic vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (www.mises.org), professor of economics at Pace University, and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound, a highly recommended book on money and economic history.

Can you imagine your money worth MORE year after year, instead of steadily losing its Purchasing Power – as we all see happening?

Can you imagine the same dollars buying more and your money’s Store of Value Power improving year after year? This is exactly what Americans once experienced when our money was SOUND.

What happened to sound money? How did we go from good, stable money to terribly unstable fiat money in less than a century?

The classical gold standard provided a period of prosperity and monetary stability. But instead of maintaining prosperity and stability, all of the developed nations, during WWI, abandoned gold to go to war. And they never looked back!

The journey away from Sound Money to Manipulated Fiat Money has been a sordid tale that has wrought much suffering in the world.

Nations and their Central Banks adopted centrally manipulated money exchange standards that led to The Great Depression of the 1930’s. They again imposed these manipulated “standards” in the 1970’s  and it led to stagflation. Isn’t insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?

Dr. Salerno also explains the very sneaky accounting tricks the government uses to fudge the numbers which hides the REAL rate of price inflation.

Finally, he will explain how the unstable fiat currencies of the world are destroying Europe, Japan, China, – and America – and most importantly, how we can yet avoid catastrophe and return to Money that is sound, stable and the foundation of long lasting prosperity.

Please join us for this very important show that provides a comprehensive historical prospective on this vitally important topic.

This show was Created and is Hosted by Mr. Drew Hjelm who is joined by a Special Commentator, Mr. Zach Halstead, who is the president of the Austrian Economics Club at the University of Iowa.

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Dr. Thorsten Polleit on THE CURSE OF FIAT MONEY 04/30/11 RFM

Posted on April 30, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** THE CURSE OF FIAT MONEY, AN EVIL SOURCE OF SUFFERING IN THE WORLD ** with Dr. Thorsten Polleit

Dr. Polleit is an acclaimed Austrian Economist. He is an expert in International Banking and is an Honorary Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Are Banks treated as a specially privileged type of business?

Yes, indeed they are! Central Banks and their cartel of private banks are very ‘special’. They are an infinite supplier of money to Governments all around the world, and all Governments treat them like their own Never-Ending-Checking-Accounts. Fiat money is created out of thin air only backed by the power of Government itself.

Imagine if YOU had a checking Account that would never run out!

But don’t we need a Central bank?

Isn’t it vitally important that we have Central Banking, Fiat Money and a Fractional Reserve Credit-Creation-System to avoid the dreaded BUST of the mysterious Boom and Bust Business Cycle?

The Answer is NO!

First, there is no mystery, this is not Rocket Science; the Boom & Bust Cycle is caused by the Central Banking System and second, it is not the Bust that we should fear but the Boom!

Finally, you will learn that there IS A SOLUTION that will cure these abuses and the crises they create and prevent them from ever happening again!

Please join us on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 for a vitally important interview with Professor Thorsten Polleit. With Radio Free Market Executive Producer and Guest Host Professor Patrick Barron.

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Grocery School

Posted on April 26, 2011 by radiofreemarket

by Don Boudreaux on April 24, 2011

in Complexity and Emergence,Cooperation,Education

Suppose that we were supplied with groceries in same way that we are supplied with K-12 education.

Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties.  A huge chunk of these tax receipts would then be spent by government officials on building and operating supermarkets.  County residents, depending upon their specific residential addresses, would be assigned to a particular supermarket.  Each family could then get its weekly allotment of groceries for “free.”  (Department of Supermarket officials would no doubt be charged with the responsibility for determining the amounts and kinds of groceries that families of different types and sizes are entitled to receive.)

Except in rare circumstances, no family would be allowed to patronize a “public” supermarket outside of its district.

Residents of wealthier counties – such as Fairfax County, VA and Somerset County, NJ – would obviously have better-stocked and more attractive supermarkets than would residents of poorer counties.  Indeed, the quality of public supermarkets would play a major role in determining people’s choices of neighborhoods in which to live.

Of course, thanks to a long-ago U.S. Supreme Court decision, families would be free to shop at private supermarkets that charge directly for the groceries they offer; such private-supermarket families, though, would get no discount on their property-tax bills.

When the quality of supermarkets is recognized by nearly everyone to be dismal, the resulting calls for “supermarket choice” would be rejected by a coalition of greedy government-supermarket workers and ideologically benighted collectivists as attempts to cheat supermarket customers out of good supermarket service – indeed, as attempts to deny ordinary families the food that they need for their very survival.  Such ‘choice,’ it would be alleged, will drain precious resources from the public supermarkets whose (admittedly) poor performance testifies to the fact that these supermarkets are underfunded.

And the small handful of people who call for total separation between supermarket and state would be criticized by nearly everyone as being, at best, delusional and – it would be thought more realistically – more likely misanthropic devils who are indifferent to the malnutrition and starvation that would sweep the land if only private market forces governed the provision and patronizing of supermarket.  (Some indignant observers would even wonder aloud at the insensitivity of referring to grocery shoppers as “customers”; surely the relationship between suppliers of life-giving foods and the people who need these foods is not so crass as to be properly discussed as being ‘commercial.’)

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Does anyone believe that such a system for supplying groceries would work well, or even one-tenth as well as the current private, competitive system that we currently rely upon for supplying grocery-retailing services?  To those of you who might think so, pardon me but you’re nuts.

To those of you who understand that such a system for supplying grocery-retailing services would be a catastrophe, why might you continue to count yourself in the ranks of those who believe that government schooling (especially the way it is currently funded and supplied) is the system that we should continue to use?

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Dr. Mark Thornton on The War on Drugs – is it a War on Americans? 04/23/11 RFM

Posted on April 23, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** The War on Drugs – is it a War on Americans? Re-evaluating the Insanity of Prohibition ** with Dr. Mark Thornton

Dr. Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute (www.mises.org). He has served as a faculty member of Auburn University and Columbus State University. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition, Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of Civil War, and An Essay on Economics Theory.

Does Drug Prohibition benefit Average Americans – or not?

The history of Prohibition is a long, fascinating and dangerous tale of Well-Intentioned-but-Misguided-Interventionists, Corrupt Businesses, and GOVERNMENT spontaneously getting together to hurt all of us – even the NON-Drug & Alcohol Users.

Dr. Thornton outlines the many reasons why prohibition fails – including how it makes the ‘illegal’ substances MORE POTENT and LESS SAFE.

Ever wonder Why FDR was so popular? Hint: it wasn’t because of the New Deal, but because he was viewed  as successfully ENDING PROHIBITION. On this show you will learn this rarely told part of history.

The War on Drugs has led to the US having the LARGEST Prison Population on Earth, yet the Drug Crimes continue to happen and the police state keeps growing – is there a better way?

We will also discuss how other nations are working to END THE DRUG WAR through legalization and the unique concept of de-criminalization, and how these programs are actually successful in other countries.

With Show Creator, Producer and Guest-Host Mr. Drew Hjelm.

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Audrey Spalding and John Payne on Guilty Until Proven Innocent 04/16/11 RFM

Posted on April 18, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** Guilty Until Proven Innocent, The Crime of Civil Asset Forfeiture ** with Researchers Audrey Spalding and John Payne

Audrey Spalding is a Policy Analyst and John Payne is a Research Associate at the Missouri-based Show-Me Institute (www.showmeinstitute.org), a donation supported 501(c)3 public policy think-tank that promotes liberty minded solutions to local policy issues.

Don’t be so quick to assume your city’s budget meetings are boring.

When Ms. Spalding went to her own city’s meeting, they were discussing a $1 million surplus from the “legal” theft of Federal Civil Asset Forfeiture.

What is Civil Asset Forfeiture, How does it work and How does it affect EVERY locality, including yours, in the country?

When Audrey and John learned that Missouri was one of the worst states in the US committing this form of government theft, they dug deeper.

Learn how this abusive “law” allows police officers to confiscate all of your belongings including your home…. and here is the real scary part…. without you having committed a crime.

Find out how you can be extorted into giving away your own belongings – incorrectly termed abandonment – by signing a waiver that turns your property over to the police. Please check out this link on CNN.com which tells you just one story. You won’t want to believe this is happening in America – but it is! You will be shocked by this Highway Robbery committed by police that then hide behind this bizarre and horrible Civil Asset Forfeiture “Law”.

This is no joke – Your property can be sitting in police coffers for over a year without any criminal charges brought.

This can happen here. This IS HAPPENING here.

** The real shocker: YOUR city – today – is practicing Civil Asset Forfeiture. ** Discover how cities, states and the Feds abusively commit this outrageous and overt theft-by-government and how LITTLE you can do to protect yourself on this very important Radio Free Market show. This show will illustrate that famous warning of George Washington that ‘Government is Force. Like FIRE, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master’.

With Show Creator, Producer and Guest-Host Ms. Zoe Russell.

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Mr. Jeffrey Tucker on Planned Poverty: The Gift of Government Intervention 04/09/11 RFM

Posted on April 11, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** Planned Poverty: The Gift of Government Intervention ** with Mr. Jeffrey Tucker

Mr. Tucker is the editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the current webmaster for the institute’s website, Mises.org. Mr. Tucker is also an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and an Acton University faculty member. He has written numerous articles and written several books including Bourbon for Breakfast.

Why and how does the government and politicians stop and even REVERSE economic growth?
Sustainability, buy local, fair trade – these all mean the same thing – everything is going to get more expensive, and you are going to have fewer choices in every area of life.

Why is there a drive to move society backwards in terms of living standards and a romanticization of hunter-gatherer days?

Jeffrey Tucker presents to us the source of this pernicious trend.

Are you responsible enough to choose your own lightbulb?

The government doesn’t think so. Nor does the government think the American people are responsible enough to choose their own toilets, their own cough medicine, or their own cleaning products.

Is the government causing a bedbug epidemic?

Scientists are baffled. Austrian economists are not. By restricting your free choices in buying the kind of mattress you prefer the regulators have caused an outbreak in bedbug infestations all across America.

Is the government holding out a big sign to drug dealers that says “SELL METH, YOU’LL MAKE TONS OF MONEY!”?

Jeffrey Tucker will tell you how politicians are causing an explosion in methamphetamine production and expanding the drug trade.

How do government regulators make Americans sick and keep them that way?

Through restriction of choices in plumbing, recycling, medicine and food. This show is a Grade A example of unintended consequences as a result of CENTRAL CONTROL.

This show will put all the economic knowledge you have accumulated to good use, as you will see REAL-WORLD examples of the unintended consequences of government  intervention – and know WHY CENTRAL PLANNING INEVITABLY causes these disasters to occur.

With Radio Free Market Show Creator, Producer and Co-Host, Mr. Aaron Brown.

 

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Dr. David Gordon on Freedom Under The Law, Why Democracy Fails 04/02/11 RFM

Posted on April 4, 2011 by radiofreemarket

**Freedom Under The Law, Why Democracy Fails and How Freedom and Prosperity Flourish Without the Violence of Government ** with Dr. David Gordon.

Dr. Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is the editor of the Mises Review and has authored several books including Resurrecting Marx and The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics.

Where did the term Rule of Law come from?

Do BAILOUTS for the politically well-connected seem compatible with the idea of Rule of Law to YOU? Learn the origins of this term, Rule of Law, and what it REALLY MEANS.

Was America founded as a DEMOCRACY?

Hear straight from the Founding Fathers what THEY thought about the concept of democracy (and why they wanted to AVOID it).

But isn’t democracy the BEST of all political systems?

Is it really so great? Bailouts, Punitive Taxes, Planned Monetary Inflation, Boom and Bust Business Cycles, Endless Wars – something is very wrong, and the first place we should be looking is the very essence of DEMOCRACY.

Do you REALLY think the ONLY way society can be organized is by giving ONE GROUP of people the LEGAL RIGHT TO VIOLENCE?

Please listen to this important show and UNDERSTAND the fallacies we’ve all been taught about the nature of democracy and government – and how we can STILL build a Society based on Freedom Under The Law.

With Radio Free Market Show Creator, Producer and Co-Host, Mr. Aaron Brown.

 

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Dr. Roderick Long on Radicals for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom 03/26/11 RFM

Posted on March 28, 2011 by radiofreemarket

** Radicals for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom: Answering 10 Objections to Libertarian Anarchism with Dr. Roderick Long **

Dr. Long is a Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, Editor of the Libertarian Nation Foundation periodical Formulations and an Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

What is wrong with a Shoe Monopoly? Starting with this question Dr. Long presents to us an understanding of the multiple problems that Monopolies present and then focuses his analysis onto the Special Problem created by the State as a Forced Monopoly Power.

Students of this topic will notice that this interview builds on the excellent book by Franz Oppenheimer “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically.” In this ground breaking book the Six Historical Stages of the Creation of the State are revealed as:  Looting, Truce, Tribute, Occupation, Monopoly, The State. (you can read the excerpt of Chapter One here)

But don’t we need The State? Is it even practical to consider the option of a Stateless Society? How is that workable?

Dr. Long carefully presents to us that once we address the common knee-jerk negative reactions to the idea of a Stateless Order of Peaceful Cooperation, it is indeed both practical and workable.

As we see that governments are running out of money anyway, it is very timely for us to carefully examine how very little The State may actually be needed at all.

With Show Producer and Co-Host Mr. Luke McGrath and Radio Free Market Founder, Michael McKay.

 

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