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Law without Government: Principles / Conflict Resolution in a Free Society (3 video)

!Monopoly, #Legal Plunder, +DIRECT Government, +private JUSTICE           dossier:
part 1: Law without Government: Principles Part One of a series of films exploring a society where there is law and order, but no government. This part introduces the definitions of law and government, illustrating the concepts using a simple desert-island scenario. part 2: Law without Government: Conflict Resolution in a Free Society This is Read More

Government Explained 1 & 2

!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, !Centralism, !Monopoly, !Planned economy, !Subsidies and Fiscal reliefs, #Abuse of power, #Corruption/Nepotism, #Double Truth - Double Moral, #Legal Plunder, #TAXATION, +Rights           dossier:
An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called “government”, and wants to understand more about what “government” is, what it does, and why it exists. Read More

The Philosophy of Liberty: Plunder

!Welfare, #Legal Plunder          
In this follow up video to The Philosophy of Liberty: Property, we explore Frederic Bastiat’s concept of Legal Plunder. Is it ever OK for government to steal your stuff and give it to someone else? Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate ala Tony Soprano? Does it really make sense for citizens to Read More

Milton Friedman: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

!Centralism, !Monopoly, !Subsidies and Fiscal reliefs, §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, §Market, #TAXATION, + Free Market          
Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, was one of the most recognizable and influential proponents of liberty and markets in the 20th century, and the leader of the Chicago School of economics. In this video from the grand opening of the Cato Institutes’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1993, Milton Read More

▶ TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism

!Centralism, !Monopoly, §LIBERAL Democracy, #De-responsabilizzazione, #Inefficienze          
This interview was filmed February 10, 1999. What are the elements of the libertarian movement and how does one of its most illustrious proponents, Milton Friedman, apply its tenets to issues facing the United States today? Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences discusses how he balances the libertarians’ desire Read More
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The Next Step in the Global Meltdown – LewRockwell.com

!Centralism, !Planned economy, §Global Economy, #Capital Control, #TAXATION          
Europe will lead the world into Economic Totalitarianism because government is now desperate to retain the euro. If the euro collapses, so will Brussels. The government exists solely because of the euro. The key is the fatal design of the euro. Failure to consolidate the debts of all individual member states has been the worst possible Read More
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Railway Socialism and Safety| Mises Institute

^Public Services/Infrastructures, !Monopoly, +private INFRASCTRUCTURE          
The recent Amtrak accident in Philadelphia should lead us to ask two questions: (1) why isn’t there competition within the railway sector, and (2) what is the safety record of state-owned and run railway systems compared to private-run systems. It is often said that privatizing passenger trains would lead to more accidents because greedy capitalists Read More
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Hey, Barney Frank: The Government Did Cause the Housing Crisis – The Atlantic

!Centralism, !Planned economy, §MarketISSUES           dossier:
Of the 19.2 million subprime/low quality loans on the books of government agencies in 2008, 12 million were held or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission responds to our interview with Barney Frank, arguing that without the government’s intervention, there would be no housing crisis Reuters On December Read More

Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? | Graziadio Business Review | Graziadio School of Business and Management | Pepperdine University

!Planned economy, !Subsidies and Fiscal reliefs, !Welfare, §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, #DeficitSpending/PublicDebt           dossier:
Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Why did the government take them over and how did it impact the housing crisis? By Peggy J. Crawford, PhD and Terry Young, PhD 2008 Volume 11 Issue 4 This article examines the factors that led to the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The authors trace Read More
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▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo

!Planned economy, !Welfare, ((#Social Engineering)), §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, §History, §MarketISSUES, #DeficitSpending/PublicDebt, #Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Poverty trap          
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/azione.prometeo BLOG – http://azioneprometeo.wordpress.com/2… La storia del novecento vista sotto l’aspetto economico, principalmente nella lotta dottrinale tra due punti di vista, quello keynesista e quello neoliberista, personificati dalle figure degli economisti Keynes e Von Hayek. ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 1/2 – YouTube.     ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 2/2 Read More
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▶ Tom Palmer: the inevitable collapse of the welfare state

!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, !Welfare          
Dr Tom G Palmer says the welfare state is unsustainable and must be reformed. Dr Palmer, from the Atlas Network and the Cato Institute, is speaking in Melbourne to the Institute of Public Affairs and the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance on Wednesday 10 April 2013. ▶ Tom Palmer: the inevitable collapse of the welfare state – Read More
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Le elezioni venete e una possibile sorpresa: l’indipendentismo

!Centralism           dossier:
I media non amano parlare delle elezioni venete e del ruolo che la proposta indipendentista potrebbe giocare: per due chiare ragioni. In primo luogo perché informazione e politica vivono in simbiosi, e certamente l’assetto di potere attuale è schierato con lo status quo. Destra e sinistra non vogliono confrontarsi con novità fastidiose e sperano che, se i riflettori resteranno spenti, la diversità veneta verrà alla luce solo in maniera... Read More

▶ Robert Higgs: “The Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and Why It Still Holds” – YouTube

!Centralism, !Monopoly, !Planned economy          
On February 17, 2014 Robert Higgs presented the above speech as part of the ongoing Economic Liberty Lecture Series, a joint project of The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society. Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute’s quarterly Read More