In response to “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026), Professor Hoppe has been removed as a Distinguished Senior Fellow (~2000–2026) with the Ludwig von Mises Institute…
I will not attempt to summarize Hoppe’s above-referenced post regarding where the Mises Institute is going. If you have cared about, or still care about, the Institute, then it is worth a read. I myself had a long association with the Institute until a few years ago. My relationship with the Institute was of great benefit, but it became time for me to move on. [continue reading…]
Yes, Netanyahoo must have been amused by the latest Milei clown show in Israel. But there is another point to be made here. The clown show took place at a rehearsal for the big upoming “Israeli Independence Day” celebration.
Now, the state of Israel did not achieve “independence” in 1948 in the sense that most Americans view their July 4th independence day. There was no war of secession from a tyrannical empire. There was violence, but the violence was perpetrated by Jewish “settlers” on the existing population whose land they were stealing. Murray Rothbard would be the last person in the world to celebrate this as Milei has done. In Rothbard’s words:
Libertarians are opposed to every State. But the State of Israel is uniquely pernicious, because its entire existence rests and continues to rest on a massive expropriation of property and expulsion from the land.
On top of that, the Israeli constitution prohibits private property ownership. All property is held in trust by the Israeli state (in keeping with the first plank of The Communist Manifesto by the way: “Abolition of Private Property”).
This is what Milei was celebrating with his dancing and singing clown show.
Shortly after Obama was elected president a savvy undergraduate student of mine (president of the College Republicans) asked me if the Obama administration intended to call its critics on economic policy and everything else racists in order to shut them up. I said that Obama himself would stay above the sleazy, putrid fray and would have his supporters like the Southern Poverty Law Center do that kind of dirty work. [continue reading…]
PFS’s Doug French last year exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center and similar huxters in “How Movements Turn Into Rackets,” chapter 1 of his book When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy, Stephan Kinsella, ed. (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025).1 In his chapter, Doug wrote about [continue reading…]
President of Argentina Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday launched the “Isaac Accords,” a new strategic framework aimed at strengthening cooperation between Argentina, Israel and like-minded partners in the Western Hemisphere.
In an official statement, the Argentine Foreign Ministry detailed that the Isaac Accords constitute a new strategic framework between Argentina, Israel, and “the descendants of Isaac and nations with a Judeo-Christian tradition” in the Western Hemisphere that is designed to strengthen cooperation in the defense of freedom and democracy, and promote the joint fight against terrorism, antisemitism, and drug trafficking.
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
My previous piece was about a confused behaviorist masquerading as Austrian, Pierre Garello. Today, I would like to let our readers know that our dear economyth actually had a father, one of much greater grandeur: Let me introduce the great Jacques Garello – who I believe deserved to be upgraded to “econosyth”, given his laser-sharp legacy – and as I bet it will become clear at the end.
This is an interview of Dr. Hoppe by Mikhail Svetov (Михаил Светов) for SVTV (SVETOV TV) on Nov. 3, 2019. From the shownotes:
Conversation with dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe about corrupting money in politics, perils of democracy, split between Cato Institute and Rothbard, freedom of association and getting libertarianism right.
In 2013, the Mises Institute launched an “Oral History Project” to preserve memories of key figures and events important to our ideas. As David Gordon notes in The History of Our Movement: [continue reading…]
Written in Spanish, above is a post from Lorenzo Cianti on X, celebrating Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s removal as Mises Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow:
SEE YOU SOON, HANS! I’m glad to see that the libertarian movement is distancing itself from toxic figures who praise dictatorial regimes, hate Milei out of prejudice and have tried to silence those who do not share their dogmatism. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN
When it comes to Milei, the writing was on the wall: Anyone who has followed his short but disastrous time in power won’t be surprised by the recent images circulating on social media, of a shared press conference with Netanyahu in 2025.1 More important than the images, was the announcement the boss and his hireling gave to Argentina and the international community: A public agreement that the whole of Argentina (1,073,518 square miles) would become a retirement home for Israeli “citizens.” Many were shocked to see this, it seemed straight out of a conspiracy theory about the Andinia Plan — according to which there is or was a plan to establish a Jewish state in Chile and Argentina — for those of us who had kept our eyes open, this invasion did not come as a surprise. But to the rest, it meant that they finally got to see with their own eyes what Milei’s true program has been, since the moment he set his eyes on the presidency, or even before. [continue reading…]
Remember that in a previous paper, I introduced my beloved “economyth”? Worthy of the name are our numerous pseudo-Austrian friends. In France, we have a good share of such friends. Let me tell the story of another talented one.
I am not sure if many of you reading this note will have already heard his name, yet within the narrow French “libéral” economics circles, Pierre Garello is a fairly influential scholar. What’s more, being a university senior professor, there are many places where he displays that his heart belongs to the Austrian School. Here are a few (1, 2, 3, 4). [continue reading…]
Someone forwarded to me the email below from one Martin Gundinger of the Austrian Economics Center to one Britt Schier of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute urging support of World IP Day. Both organizations are headquartered in Vienna; Barbara Kolm is Founding Director of the former and President of the latter, and is heralded as being “renowned for promoting free market policies.” (Kolm is also co-founder of the Javier Milei Institut für Deregulierung in Europa (Javier Milei Institute for Deregulation in Europe), and also Vice-President of the Central Bank of Austria (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) from 2018 to 2023.)
Institutes that are supposed to promote free market policies should not be promoting IP socialism! I guess we should not be surprised—Hayek was wobbly on IP1 and on libertarian and free market property rights principles in general.2[continue reading…]
A few months back, I wrote a piece that touched on a taboo topic, though I did not know it at the time. It generated empirical evidence that confirms an intuition we all have that all is not well for American prosperity. I don’t mean just since the great inflation of the last six years. [continue reading…]
Originally published as Sean Ring, “Peace!Fire!,” The Rude Awakening (April 9, 2026)
Peace!Fire!
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
And since I sit here exasperated as I’ve been since this ill-conceived mess began, I thought I’d check the scoreboard.
What amazes me isn’t the unintended consequences. I didn’t know what they’d be, but I knew they were coming.
What blows my mind is that everything doom merchants have been selling for the past 25 years is coming to pass, in real time. Real de-dollarization. An empire breaking apart because it can neither bribe nor protect its periphery as promised. The empire’s metropole is blind to the consequences of its actions. Alfred Thayer Mahan’s blue ocean world is fading into history. Halford Mackinder’s world island is becoming a reality.
Unfortunately, there are Austrian-School economists—most of them—and there are pseudo Austrian ones—enough to spoil the whole. It seems that many of that kind can be observed, lately. In France, where I do my best to promote Murray Rothbard’s legacy, we have our share of pseudos. Quite a share, actually. I like to call them “economyths”. Consider.
A few weeks ago, François Facchini published a book with the following title: “Quelle fiscalité pour demain ?”—“What taxation for tomorrow?”1 The tone is already set, isn’t it? As I am sure you had guessed, this book is not meant to explain that “Taxation is Theft”, but rather that taxation is a necessary evil that we can at least try to keep below 100%. [continue reading…]
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
An exciting event celebrating Rothbard, in commemoration of his 100th year, “100 Years with Rothbard,” will be held in Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026.
This event, being organized by PFS member Manuel Ogando, is sponsored by several Portuguese libertarian groups: Mises Portugal, Catalaxia, Don’t Trust Verify (bitcoin podcast), ZugaTV (libertarian podcast), and Golpe de Estado Podcast (ancap podcasters). [continue reading…]
From the “never trust a politician” files (see Milei and his reversion to the mean with his political rhetoric) we now have the latest edition of “never trust a celebrity.” Our latest victim (or shall we say perpetrator) is Rob Schneider’s X post (March 27, 2026) .
Briefly, Scheider is now promoting (non-ironically) the idea of reinstating the draft in the US (a sadly “new” idea re-emerging). Upon publishing his unsolicited opinion he received a tidal wave of backlash (or “ratio” in X-posting parlance). He soon doubled down to “explain” it was meant to be a legal instrument to de-incentivize politicians from sending other kids off to war if they know their own children might get called up. The most charitable interpretation of this stance is that he is incredibly naïve, not only about politics but likewise American history (e.g. the recent wars where there has been no congressional approval of military incursions along with well-publicized Vietnam era draft dodging by politically connected youth).
In a recent article for Die Weltwoche, Phillip Gut discusses the “triumph of the chainsaw,” citing specific praise for Javier Milei in The Washington Post.
“The rapid transition from nearly a century of socialism to free-market capitalism continues to demonstrate the superiority of the latter,” says Gut. However, the Milei administration, which took office in December 2023, is actually just as socialist as its predecessors. So what free-market capitalism is Gut talking about? Indeed, beyond a few half-hearted steps toward deregulation—which in no way challenge the most cherished interests of the business classes most closely tied to power—Mileism is more of the same, even in Argentina’s statism standards: high taxes, money printing, indebtedness, and so on. There is certainly no clear improvement whatsoever.
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