In August 1929, most stock investors thought they’d never had it so good. By November, they thought they’d never had it so bad. Amid today’s gyrating stock market and increasing talk of recession, let’s refresh ourselves on the momentous events of nine decades past.

The liberation by Great Britain of an entire race from the scourge of slavery was an achievement of, by, and for not just men but also of both men and women. It should forever be celebrated as such.

Few things are riskier than a welfare state. It’s put more than a few countries out of business or off the map. But no nation ever died because of an overabundance of character.

Everybody knows who America’s first President was, but can you identify the country’s first economist?

My good friend and FEE colleague TK Coleman interviews me at FEEcon 2019 about ideas and events important to me over the years.

The story in Ralph Lazo’s belated obituary reminded me of a Biblical passage. In John 15:13, Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Socialism nullifies the Golden Rule. Socialists proclaim “solidarity with the people.” They say they only want to help others. The problem is how they seek to do it. If their plans were in the realm of friendly advice, helpful hints, and requests for voluntary participation, they wouldn’t be socialists. FORCE is their modus operandi.

This five-minute video explains that Jesus never supported forcible redistribution of wealth, central planning of the economy, government welfare programs, or public ownership of the means of production.

What was once widely regarded as the responsibility of parents is now generally seen as the duty of government, and government is one of the last entities we should ever expect to be good at teaching us either liberty or character.

He marshaled the English language on behalf of ideas, and they sparked liberty’s loudest thunderclap in human history.

The ancient Roman Republic endured for half a millennium before it collapsed into the imperial autocracy we know as the Roman Empire. But did you know there was another Roman Republic only 170 years ago?

The truly sad part of the story is that Babeuf’s communist/socialist gibberish was born again with Karl Marx 50 years later. Will the world ever put behind it the rantings of these murderous ideologues?

She possessed more integrity and honor than any of the big-name male rabble-rousers of her day.

As bad as the IRS is today, just imagine what things would be like if it hired MS-13 to be your auditor.

I believe that being a principled person is so important that it’s one of the two or three things I would most want to be remembered for someday.

La libertad es el futuro. ¡Únete a la causa!

Thanks to all of you who have helped in even the smallest way to make my time at FEE a great joy over the years. Never give up. Our cause is noble. It’s worth fighting for. And you may never find a more effective ally in winning the future for liberty than the Foundation for Economic Education.

Subjects I discussed in this April 2019 interview for the Startup Societies Foundation include the medieval Republic of Ragusa, contract cities, and educating for freedom.

Commemorating one of the long-forgotten corners of Europe whose liberties and independence Napoleon crushed, the Septinsular Republic.

After Adam Smith and the Enlightenment, the pseudo-science of Egonomics gave way to the genuine science of Economics. To apply Hayek again, this time with a little license, the curious task of Egonomics was to fool men into believing far more than they know about what they dreamed they could plan, whereas “it’s the curious task of Economics to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they could design.”