Recently Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debated the merits of anarchism at the Soho Forum. Bob critiques Brook's opening statement.

The Soho Forum Debate: https://Mises.org/HAP419a
Bob's Book on Market Anarchy, Chaos Theory: https://Mises.org/HAP419b
Rothbard's Book on Natural Rights and the State, For a New Liberty: https://Mises.org/HAP419c
Hans-Herman Hoppe's Book on Private Defense, The Private Production of Defense: https://Mises.org/HAP419d

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Responding to Yaron Brook's Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism

Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.

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Discrimination and Opportunities for Women | Lipton Matthews

Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don’t want to follow the company’s rules are now appealing to US antitrust law.

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Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin”

The watchword among progressives this election season is: “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.” In truth, democracy itself is not in danger, but one can accurately say that “democracy,” as practiced in the US, endangers our lives.

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Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame.

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How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices | Isaac Deak

Employing the Labor Theory of Value, Marx claimed that entrepreneurial profits arise from exploitation of workers. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits when they correctly gauge markets. Exploitation has nothing to do with it.

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Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation | Michael Njoku

Not all news from the gold and monetary fronts is bad. In fact, gold made a number of advancements in seven states, including exemptions from taxes and attempts by states to restrict Federal Reserve behavior. Gold is alive and well.

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Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024

Progressives are openly cheering the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. However, it was progressive legislation that created this healthcare crisis in the first place.

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Why Politicians Love Tariffs

The US went from tariffs being the major source of federal government revenue to what we have today under the income tax and payroll taxes. The time scope is from 1789 to the Great Depression. In 1790, 99.9% of federal government revenue is generated by tariffs—the first year we operate under the Constitution. In 1860, still 94% of total fed government revenue is generated by tariffs. Only the War Between the States changes this and we get our first federal income tax.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on May 19, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

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The Issue of Tariffs: How US Revenue Collection Was Turned Inside-Out

Using the heavily marketed movie "Wicked" as his news hook, Bob explains that the beloved Wizard of Oz movie involved an allegory of the bimetallism debates of the late 1800s, including William Jennings Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech. Bob fills in the details about the Wizard of Oz lore, and then explains the economics of bimetallism in the United States.

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What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?

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