Thomas Woods
June 18th, 2012
A great piece in Bloomberg that takes apart the “What about Sweden?” non-argument that invariably comes up in debates over the free market. (Thanks to Chris B.)Incidentally, Bob Murphy notes that Paul Krugman, in his typical...
May 8th, 2012
With the head of Mises Canada. (When I move into my new office space in town I’ll be able to stream better; at my present location it’s a miracle I can get high-speed Internet at all.)Originally posted on TomWoods.com
April 26th, 2012
Someone sent a message via my Facebook page in which he noted something a friend had told him:Demand creates jobs. How do we increase demand? We provide assistance where needed to create economic activity where the private...
April 9th, 2012
For those of you wondering what Ron Paul has been up to.
March 20th, 2012
Take note of the Atlantic's cover:It’s the old something-for-nothing analysis: by buying stuff with money conjured out of thin air, by creating “liquidity” ex nihilo, disaster was averted. Financial disasters are...
February 21st, 2012
I had a chance last month to speak to the convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. I talked about nullification, the book and the concept. (I note that Amazon has only six copies left at $10...
February 4th, 2012
Courtesy of the SayAnythingBlog, this segment reports that the black market — in other words, people making free exchanges with each other without supervision and expropriation by state structures — now amounts to the world’...
January 26th, 2012
Everyone has weighed in on the subject by now — was it right for Tim Thomas not to meet the president at the White House? I didn’t comment on it because I assumed the answer was obvious: the president is guilty of countless...
January 6th, 2012
A few belated thoughts on Ron Paul and the Iowa caucuses.Certainly it’s a disappointment. Some people counter that what matters are the delegates, but in my opinion what actually matters right now is momentum, and an Iowa...
December 30th, 2011
I read a Reuters article the other day alleging that Ron Paul supporters are drawn from people who don’t have a very good grasp of the issues. Translation: they learn about them from sources other than Newsweek and...
May 15th, 2012
Listen to my interview below with Carol Paul, Ron Pauls wife of 55 years, on the Peter Schiff Show.
May 2nd, 2012
Over on my Facebook page, someone pointed out a review of a new book called The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed. Not having read the book, I don’t know whether it or...
April 25th, 2012
My friend Brad Thompson, whom I interviewed last year (see the second half of this YouTube video) on neoconservatism, sent along this talk he gave not long ago on the subject of why Marxism attracted (and in some cases still...
March 28th, 2012
That poor soul from the other day who insisted Lincoln never said that blacks shouldn’t be voters or jurors, or intermarry with white people, or that he had no intention to interfere with slavery where it existed, still...
March 7th, 2012
My presentation at the Mises Institute’s event at Furman University last weekend called “War: Big Government’s Best Friend.” Makes a libertarian case against war and chronicles my own evolution from neocon to libertarian....
February 15th, 2012
A reader writes: I have been looking for a list of economists who support Ron Paul for president. I constantly get the following comment from other economists, “Ron Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s for the...
February 1st, 2012
The Ron Paul college kids are too smart for such silliness. Then there are the rest of them.
January 9th, 2012
It was a packed house Saturday night at Jillian’s in Manchester, where Ron Paul supporters gathered to watch the debate, hear a couple speakers and listen to great music. This was Ron’s best debate performance yet by far,...
January 2nd, 2012
The best line of the film V for Vendetta is uttered by the Chancellor, who thunders at his subordinates: “I want everyone to remember why they need us!”That’s what’s so interesting about Gary Chartier’s 2011 book The...
December 21st, 2011
And these are the people who want to “spread democracy” around the world.“People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third,” Governor Terry Branstad told Politico. “If [Mitt] Romney comes in a strong...