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Pro-Market Intervention vs. Free Market Volatility (Libertarian Dilemma)
In this video propose two choices, which I feel isn #39;t too far from many of the real choices we have in promoting Libertarianism. Choice 1) Be pure to principles and advocate pure free markets as soon as possible, but run the risk that market correction create a demand for more intervention than you started with. Choice 2) sacrifice a little liberty today to create enough stability to keep a pro-market sentiment in existence and avoid the totalitarian resentment that may arise from volatility from switch to a pure free market super fast. Support Alex Merced donate.alexmerced.com AlexMerced.com - LearnEconomicsNow.com - Libertarian101.comFrom:Alex MercedViews:1 0ratingsTime:08:48More inEducation

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Gary Johnson at the LAST third party debate on RT
http://www.garyjohnson2012.com Libertarianism = LIBERTY. Government out of your bedroom, healthcare, finances, and everyday life.From:issacharshowViews:4 1ratingsTime:08:17More inNews Politics

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A certain line of thinking is all too prevalent among liberty-minded Americans. It runs as follows: "Candidate X may not be perfect, but he is better on domestic economic policy than candidate Y, and that is obviously what matters most for liberty." This way of thinking underlies "libertarian" endorsements of candidates such as Mitt Romney, and it implicitly throws the entire antiwar aspect of libertarianism under the bus.

This is in stark contrast to Ron Paul's way of thinking. Ron Paul may be in the Republican Party. But this by no means indicates that Paul himself would consider your average Republican to be better than your average Democrat in office. In fact, it is probably more likely that the prospect of the warmongering, imperialist neocons returning to full power is more frightening to Dr. Paul than the prospect of a Democratic domestic policy double-down.

Ron Paul, unlike some of his fans, never gave foreign policy a back seat to domestic economic policy: far from it. In his presidential campaign, he talked even more about ending the US empire than ending the Fed.

Moreover, Ron Paul wisely included foreign policy as an essential plank within his domestic economic policy, pointing out incessantly that the US empire is not only responsible for destruction abroad and insecurity at home, but it is also bankrupting and impoverishing us.

Foreign policy is an economic matter in another way as well. Foreign interventionists are essentially security-production socialists. For far too many conservatives, the same federal government that is too inept and corrupt to run a television station is somehow miraculously competent and virtuous enough to make the whole world a safer place through centrally planned invasions, occupations, sanctions, regime changes, and CIA ops.

Some may concede this point but argue that the danger of a new "New Deal" is more acute than that of a neocon renascence. But that is far from obvious, and is in fact rather dubious. What can be more acutely dangerous than an even more belligerent foreign policy that is more likely to lead to nuclear blowback?

When Murray Rothbard explained why he had rooted for (which is fundamentally different from endorsing) Lyndon Johnson over the allegedly "pro-liberty" candidate Barry Goldwater, he pointed out that Goldwater's advisers were crazy and wanted to "nuke Russia." Rothbard rightly said that problems like price controls "fade away" in significance in the face of prospects of nuclear conflict. There isn't much to price in a nuclear wasteland.

Rothbard, like Ron Paul, placed foreign policy center stage. Just as Ludwig von Mises was the Last Knight of Liberalism, Murray N. Rothbard was the Last Knight of the Old Right. As Mises was a laissez-faire Leonidas surrounded by socialists and money cranks, Rothbard was an antiwar Roland, fighting bravely and almost alone in the rear guard of the Old Right against the Cold Warriors of the New.

Rothbard spent much of the 50s writing an epochal economics treatise that made plain the case for the free market. However, by 1959, he was more concerned with matters of war and peace than with domestic economic policy. In that year, he wrote, "I am getting more and more convinced that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business," and that, in the face of an American arms budget exceeding $40 billion, "the fact that we might spend a few billion less on public housing or on farm support no longer thrills me."

Neither should the prospect of a "pro-business" candidate tinkering around the edges of the American welfare state (and probably actually expanding it) thrill, or even appease, libertarians in the face of American military spending which, in 2011, exceeded $700 billion.

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Ron Paul, Rothbard and Race 1 of 2
The "Ron Paul Newsletters" controversy has revealed a little known conservative synthesis, "paleo-libertarianism." Paul Gottfried joins Richard to discuss the history of this coalition of writers and activists, which was quite willing to take seriously not only libertarian economics but race, immigration, and the National Question. 5:41 has a good discussion on Cato #39;s connexion to the NeoConservative movement. From Alternative Right Radio, 01 January 2012: http://www.alternativeright.comFrom:Khadija UmayyadViews:1 0ratingsTime:14:58More inNews Politics

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Ron Paul, Rothbard and Race 2 of 2
The "Ron Paul Newsletters" controversy has revealed a little known conservative synthesis, "paleo-libertarianism." Paul Gottfried joins Richard to discuss the history of this coalition of writers and activists, which was quite willing to take seriously not only libertarian economics but race, immigration, and the National Question. From Alternative Right Radio, 01 January 2012: http://www.alternativeright.comFrom:Khadija UmayyadViews:4 0ratingsTime:13:36More inNews Politics

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Libertarianism in Ancient China | by Murray N. Rothbard
Audio version of the Mises Daily article for December 23, 2009. Written by Murray N. Rothbard and read by Jeff Riggenbach. mises.org Link to the text version of this audio presentation mises.org Read Murray N. Rothbard #39;s complete book, "Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I" online: mises.org Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com DISCLAIMER: The Ludwig von Mises Institute has given permission under the Creative Commons license that this audio presentation can be publicly reposted as long as credit is given to the Mises Institute and other guidelines are followed. More info at: creativecommons.org This YouTube channel is in no way endorsed by or affiliated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, any of its lecturers or staff members. * * * * * Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America #39;s greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Links to more online books and essays by Murray Rothbard: The Ethics of Liberty mises.org Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com Man, Economy, and State mises.org Audio book playlist: http://www.youtube.com The Case Against the Fed mises.org Audio book ...From:LibertyInOurTimeViews:13 0ratingsTime:17:05More inEducation

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During a week centered around the battle between Democrats and Republicans, students from all over the Southeast convened on UNCs campus Saturday to attend a conference on libertarianism.

The conference was one of 15 Students For Liberty Conferences held this fall around the nation.

It was the third conference held in North Carolina but the first at UNC.

More than 100 students came from Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as from around the state.

David Deerson, co-president of UNCs Young Americans for Liberty chapter, said those involved had two main goals.

The first one, he said, was to run a conference that is educational for students so that they have a greater understanding of liberty.

The second goal was to let students meet each other and network, Deerson said.

The conference consisted of a series of lectures on liberty and the role of government, and included speakers such as David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, and Fred Smith, president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Mobin Koohestani, a freshman at Wake Forest University who works as a Students For Liberty campus coordinator, helped facilitate the event.

As campus coordinator, Koohestani is responsible for connecting various political groups on Wake Forests campus with Students For Liberty, a national organization.

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American History with George H. Smith, Part Two
Libertarianism.org is proud to present George H. Smith #39;s lecture series on American history, given at Dartmouth College in 1983 at one of the first Cato Summer Seminars. Smith provides an intellectual history of the founding and development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the Progressive Era. In the second part of this series, Smith lectures on the Articles and Confederation, the Constitution, and the time period leading up to the Civil War. George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith #39;s fourth book, The System of Liberty, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Download the .mp3 version of this lecture here: bit.lyFrom:LibertarianismDotOrgViews:1 1ratingsTime:01:26:39More inNews Politics

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American History with George H. Smith, Part One
Libertarianism.org is proud to present George H. Smith #39;s lecture series on American history, given at Dartmouth College in 1983 at one of the first Cato Summer Seminars. Smith provides an intellectual history of the founding and development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the Progressive Era. In the first part of this series, Smith revisits the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence and Lexington and Concord to the Battle of Yorktown. George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith #39;s fourth book, The System of Liberty, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Download the .mp3 version of this lecture here: bit.lyFrom:LibertarianismDotOrgViews:2 6ratingsTime:01:28:17More inNews Politics

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