Below I’ve posted the audio of a talk by economist and historian Murray Rothbard on America’s only two just wars, the American revolution and the war for southern independence.
Here is Rothbard’s definition of a just war, from an essay based on this talk:

My [...]

All government debt is a racket, and should be repudiated.
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Widely read investment advisor John Mauldin favors the continued enslavement of the Greek public to corrupt politicians, greedy unions, and German banks. He had this to say today in his email publication:
…if Greece defaults it does not necessarily mean they have to leave the EU, any more [...]

Nothing raises my hackles more than the suppression of thought, and I often get a kick out of Russian cheekiness. In that vein, and in light of today’s news of a boost in funding for the only nuclear arsenal that has ever been deployed, here is a sample from a poster ad campaign for Russia Today [...]

This old essay by columnist Joe Sobran is remarkably close to my own view of government, as is the process by which he arrived at his conclusions (I added the bold below).
…I became a philosophical conservative, with a strong libertarian streak. I believed in government, but it had to be “limited” government — [...]

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Shooting is a deep tradition in Switzerland, going back to the legend of William Tell and his defiance and assassination of a Habsburg governor. In many ways, Switzerland remains what America could have been: an armed, neutral federation, as Jeffersonians intended. Unlike in post-Lincoln America, the Swiss federal system is intact, with significant power in [...]

I want to offer a little praise here for Mish Shedlock, an investment advisor for Sitka Pacific and proprietor of the hugely successful blog, globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com. I owe Mish a debt of gratitude as one of the writers who helped me understand our credit money system and anticipate the events of the last couple of years. [...]

If you haven’t read this book:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Watch this video, a lecture by G. Edward Griffin:

Click here to watch.

Those reporting reporting all-time lows in Treasury yields need a little history lesson. Let’s take a quick look at the bond market first. For those who know how to read it, its behavior is ominous.

Click image for sharper view. Source: Bloomberg.
This deflation is so strong that investors are lending money to the government at long-term [...]

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It has become commonplace to lay blame for the greatest of asset bubbles on the inflationary policies of Sir Allen Greenspan and his employer. A typical critique goes something like this: For the last 20 years, every time the market started to liquidate bad debts and malinvestments (the junk bond bust, the [...]

Ron Paul is not just the lone voice of reason and honesty in Congress, he’s also a great writer. In the latest of his weekly essays, he spells out how sound money (gold and silver being tried and true examples of which) restrains governments from engaging in mischief such as wars of aggression:
 
 

“Can sound money [...]