L. Frank Baum & Bimetallism on This Day in History

This Day in History: Author L. Frank Baum was born on this day in 1856, and he is best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. While a children's classic, the book was actually an allegory for the politics and economics of the 1890's, with a special interest in bimetallism (a monetary standard where money is backed by gold and silver). The Yellow Brick Road represented the gold standard, and Ruby slippers were originally silver and Oz got its name from the abbreviation of ounces "Oz" in which gold and silver are measured. The Scarecrow represented the American farmers, the Tin Man represented the steel factory workers and the Cowardly Lion was a metaphor for politician William Jennings Bryan. The Wicked Witch of the West represented the American West, and the Winged Monkeys represented the Native Americans. The King of the Winged Monkeys tells Dorothy, "Once we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master. ... This was many years ago, long before Oz came out of the clouds to rule over this land."

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Robert Owen on This Day in History

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This Day in History: Welsh textile manufacturer Robert Owen was born on this day in 1771. While a successful businessman, he was also a believer in Socialism, and may have even coined the term. About 200 years ago Robert Owen bought land in Ohio to set up a Socialist community. While American may be thought of as a Laissez-Faire country back then, it was also a hotbed of Socialist experimentation, particularly in Ohio. Owen called his community "New Harmony" but like all such Socialist communities, they all failed...usually within 2 years. As Alexander Winston wrote: "They couldn’t run anything properly—flour mill, saw mill, tannery or smithy—and their only solution to problems of production was to write another constitution or make another speech. The industrious soon tired of supporting the idle. From the Nashoba, Tennessee Owenite settlement, leader Frances Wright informed Owen that 'cooperation has nigh killed us all,' and departed. Within two years every Owenite venture, fourteen in all, disintegrated."

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Friedrich Hayek on This Day in History

Road to Serfdom Audiobook

This Day in History: Economist Friedrich Hayek was born on this day in 1899. He is best known for writing The Road to Serfdom which went on to sell 2 million copies, an outstanding achievement for an economics book.

Milton Friedman once said of Hayek: "There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union."

President Ronald Reagan listed Hayek as among the two or three people who most influenced his philosophy, and Margaret Thatcher often carried one of his books into Parliament with her.

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Requiem for Marx by Yuri Matklzev

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Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction

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Planned Chaos by Ludwig von Mises

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Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman

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Atlas Shrugged

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Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

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End The Fed by Ron Paul

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The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand

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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

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For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy Of Ayn Rand

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The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson

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Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman

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Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

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SJW's Always Lie by Vox Day

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THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by John T. Flynn

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Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Defending The Undefendable by Walter Block

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Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism by Walter E. Williams

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Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

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Hitler's Socialism / Destroying the Denialist Counter Arguments

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State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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The Naked Communist by W Cleon Skousen

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The New Dystopias

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Why Government Doesn’t Work by Harry Browne

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The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade by Burton W Folsom

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Charles Murray - Losing Ground - American Social Policy 1950-1980 Audiobook

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A Patriot’s History of the United States

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Ayn Rand the Russian Radical

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Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell Audible Audio Edition

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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton

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The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

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How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Browne Harry

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Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard

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The Left, the Right & The State by Lew Rockwell

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The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek

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The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk

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The Politically Incorrect Guide To Capitalism

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Democracy: The God That Failed - Audiobook

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Education Without The State by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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Essays On Libertarianism

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The Black Book of Communism

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Bernie Sanders is Wrong by Tom Woods

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The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

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Socialism and Science by Professor F. A. HAYEK

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Marx's Religion of Revolution by Gary North

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Masters of Deceit - The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It by J. Edgar Hoover

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The Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy

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Increase your financial IQ by Robert T. Kiyosaki

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The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Presidents: From Wilson To Obama

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Why Businessmen Need Philosophy by Ayn Rand

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Anthem by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

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Trump: Think Like a Billionaire by Donald Trump

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The Road to Serfdom by F.A Hayek

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The Mystery of Banking by Murray Rothbard

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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Rothbard

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"We" Audiobook / Yevgeny Zamyatin (Unabridged)

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Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein

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Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock

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Ron Paul - The Revolution: A Manifesto

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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises

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Freedom & New York On This Day in History

New York Ranks the Least Free State of All

This day in history: New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates on this day in 1901. My first reaction when reading this was "of course they were. New York has been the least free state in the country for a long time. Economic freedom is New York's greatest weakness, but the state has not kept up with the rest of the country on personal freedoms either. New York is also the worst state on regulatory policy, land-use freedom is very low, primarily because of the economically devastating rent control law in New York City. New York’s local tax burden is double that of the average state, and NY also suffers from a lack of “school choice.” Exorbitant prices on tobacco leads to selling cigarettes as singles, and forget about getting a gun there. More people leave New York than any other State.

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Earth Day and Socialism on This Day in History

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This Day in History: The first Earth Day was held on this day in 1970. The co-founder of Earth was Ira Einhorn...also known as the Unicorn Killer. Earth Day also falls on Communist Leader Vladimir Lenin's birthday which many consider no coincidence. April 22 is actually a big day for Socialism/Communism. The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of India formed on this day in 1969. The Paris Agreement was signed on this day in 2016. Witnesses begin testifying in the Army–McCarthy hearings began on this day in 1954. Richard Nixon died on this day in 1994 (Milton Friedman maintained that Nixon was the most Socialistic president of the 20th century). Immanuel Kant was born on this day in 1724 as well (his philosophy was the basis on which the structure of Marxism was built.)
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John Maynard Keynes on This Day in History

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This Day in History: British economist, John Maynard Keynes died on this day in 1946. His Kenyesian economic theory can perhaps be summarized in 7 words: "governments should spend money they don't have." His greatest work was "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money." Richard M. Ebeling wrote of this book: "Few books, in so short a time, have gained such wide influence and generated so destructive an impact on public policy. What Keynes succeeded in doing was to provide a rationale for what governments always like to do: spend money and pander to special interests...Keynes’s legacy has given us paper-money inflation, government deficit spending, and more political intervention throughout the market." The trillions of dollars in debt we now find ourselves in is the legacy of John Maynard Keynes, and at some point there has to be a reckoning. Keynes was not concerned with the future consequences of his policies, because, as he says: “In the long run we are all dead.”

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