Fake Gold Bars in the Wild.

The Agora Telegraph tells the tale of a number of 500 gram gold bars that are nothing more than plated tungsten. When buying your precious metals, use reputable dealers, take delivery, and get small units. Let’s hope these fake bars get found soon, and taken out of circulation.

Anarchy and Poverty

Via Center for a Stateless Society

A nice post on the various means that would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, poverty in a stateless society. The one thing it doesn’t mention is that because a stateless society would doubtless adopt a sound money, inflation won’t be stealing savings, which encourages even greater prosperity among the poor, especially as they reach retirement.

Trade Deficits, Good or Bad?

Are trade deficits necessarily a bad thing? Well, according to this article at Mises.org, it depends on why there is a deficit, and on how sound the money is.

Ron Paul on the Census

Ron Paul is probably the most principled man in Congress. Via Homeland Stupidity we have his views on the upcoming census. The one thing to remember about Dr. Paul is even if he is the most principled man in Congress, he’s still a politician, and we all know how to tell if they’re lying.

Self Ownership

One of the ideas used to arrive at the Non-Aggression principle is Self-Ownership, the idea that you own yourself. It is at the same time a simple concept to grasp, and a complex idea to apply.

The Depression of 1921

You don’t remember the first great depression in 1921? I’m not surprised, it’s one of the few times government reacted in such a way that it prevented an economic collapse. Check out this post from IBD.

Zero Tolerance is Zero Thinking

In what must be the strangest Zero Tolerance story I’ve ever heard, a six year old in Ionia, Michigan has been suspended for forming his hand into the shape of a gun and pointing at people. I wonder how they would have reacted to something like this. Soon the government will be seizing toy guns. Oops, Too Late.

Update 3/2

I mistakenly said the suspended student was a sixth grader.

Moving on Up?

Last week I posted that the Free State Project may be moving up the Gandhi scale from ridicule to fighting. Now we have this report form FSK on the apparent national move of anarchism from ignoring to ridicule. How long now before we see some real winning?

The Market for Liberty

If you haven’t read it yet, check out “The Market for Liberty” for a great discussion on the function of a stateless society. There is a youtube video of the first chapter, and the full audiobook and a PDF file are available at Book.FreeKeene.com

Update 3/8

It seems that FreeKeene.com is down. I’ll update when the site is back live.

Update #2 3/8

The site is back up. Go get your book now!