Water is the fundamental pillar of Life. All life requires water, thus making its demand extraordinary high. All living things are in constant competition for fresh, drinkable, healthy water. Humans are no different. Most of our access to this necessity
(Pic via New York Daily News) Austrian economist F.A. Hayek’s most famous work, The Road to Serfdom, is renowned for identifying two general rules in regards to politics and the state. As the title of the book suggests, Hayek was
Article originally appeared at LewRockwell.com on June 8, 2005 Supporters of the welfare state around the world have for many decades pointed out the Scandinavian countries, particularly Sweden, as proofs of how this system can generate both wealth and social
On 17 April 2012 the United States celebrated its annual Tax Freedom Day. Wikipedia explains the concept: “Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to fund its annual tax
No, it’s not Greece Prime Minister and bankster puppet Lucas Papadermos who serves his former masters at Goldman Sachs rather than the people of the country he was “appointed†to lead. No, it’s not German Chancellor Angela Merkel who is
Democracy gets a good press these days (the last couple of centuries’ worth of days). People tend to identify democracy with freedoms – the various liberal freedoms we lovers of liberty extol. But this reputation is ill-gained, once we look
Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.
At least that’s what The Globe and Mail is speculating: The Bank of Canada left its main interest rate untouched at 1 per cent Tuesday, while painting a brighter economic outlook and hinting for the first time since last summer
This article originally appeared in The Journal of Libertarian Studies Volume 21 No. 1 (Spring 2007) Jordan Schneider’s article1[i] is directed in part against a talk I gave in 2004 titled “Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections,â€[ii] in which I
Recently on Fox News Sunday, David Axelrod, former Senior Adviser to President Obama and now communications director for his reelection campaign, let slip a sneering remark on the true essence of government. When pushed by anchor Chris Wallace on whether
Last month, Public Broadcasting Service ran a story on the poor working conditions reported in Foxconn factories within China. Foxconn is, of course, most famous for being Apple’s main contract manufacturer in the world. Since Apple as a company has
I love yogurt. Soon after I immigrated to Canada from Serbia in 2001, I realized that Canadian yogurt, feta and cream cheeses  are not to my taste, so I started discovering little ethnic speciality stores with dairy products from Macedonia,
Murray Rothbard on the EU, ECB and the currency union from 1989. Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.
There is no question that the Keynesian paradigm is beginning to lose influence. Years after the financial crisis and the implementation of massive bouts of government-financed stimulus, the world economy has yet to recover. The Keynesian prescription to our ills
My car was recently broken in to, and I had to work together with my auto insurance company in order to replace the damage. I was a bit unfamiliar with how this process would work because I do not need
Recorded April 10th, 2012 The Mises Institute of Canada is the centre for the study of the Austrian School of Economics in Canada. http://www.mises.ca/ Laissez-Faire Books has been publishing and distributing books on liberty, with a focus on economics
Philosophies need to be challenged. No philosophy has escaped criticism and no philosophy should escape it. One should never accept or reject an idea at face value; it must be dissected, analyzed and debated before conclusions are drawn. If the
It’s hard to imagine that even 150 years after the publication of french political philosopher Frederic Bastiat’s classic essay “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen,” tired examples of politicians attempting to supersede the laws of scarcity
Thus one government intervention begets a further government intervention. Because government has failed in its primary task…politicians ask, in effect, for price and wage fixing; and we are driven toward totalitarian control. – Henry Hazlitt “What You Should Know About
A few years ago we attended a lecture in which a distinguished academic speaker not only sang the praise of “locavorism†(i.e., the notion that by producing an ever increasing portion of our food supply closer to where we live
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