Join Mises Club Opelika for their second meeting at Botanic in Opelika. The Meetup will take place Saturday, June 24. 
There is no registration fee, but attendance will be limited due to space. 
Please contact Ed Kerns to reserve your spot or if you have any questions, [email protected].

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Join 2023’s Virtual Mises University for only $25—or join free for Mises Institute Members (uses your promo code on the back of your Membership card). 
For almost thirty years, Mises Institute scholars have presented at Mises University, a world-class, week-long, intensive event in Austrian Economics. Virtual Mises University is the online component of this seminar for students, professionals, business people, and absolutely anyone, anywhere, who is interested in the pursuit of economic truth. For Virtual Mises U, there is no time limit, and attendees can log on for independent study.
Anyone who desires this in-depth experience online can attend Virtual Mises U for $25—or free with a Mises Institute Membership code. As an attendee, you can watch live and archived

Come visit the Mises Institute’s booth at Bitcoin 2023! Join thousands in Miami Beach, FL for the world’s biggest annual celebration of Bitcoin. The conference will start Thursday, May 18 and conclude Saturday, May 20. 
Buy event tickets here, and be sure to use the discount code MISESB23 at checkout to receive 10% off your registration. 

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Escape the summer heat for a cool weekend in the beautiful mountains of Banner Elk, NC. Tentative plans are to meet for dinner on Friday, July 21 at the Sugar Mountain Ski Resort. Guest speakers will be Franklin Sanders and his son, Justin, who will discuss their decades long effort to protect the precious metal trading industry from government intervention.
Saturday, July 22 will begin with breakfast with the owners of Sugar Mountain while they discuss how they converted a small, bankrupt ski slope into one of the most successful resorts in the eastern United States. We’ll also get a close look at their advanced snow-making technology and modern ski lifts, which are both keys to their prosperity.
Plan to spend the weekend at Sugar Mountain and its surroundings

Join Mises Club Carolinas for their next meetup in Fort Mill, SC, on Saturday, April 22. We’ll tour Southpoint Solutions, and industrial lighting company from Club Member Jared Wall. After the tour, we’ll have dinner and discussion at Farmhaus Butcher and Beer Garden. The speaker will be a new Club Member, Trey Carson, owner of Happy Mining, a bitcoin mining company in central North Carolina. 
For more information or to register for this event, please contact Kent Misegades, [email protected].

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Save the date! 
Join us for our 2023 Supporters Summit, October 12–14, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. 
Lew Rockwell and Jeff Deist will host a weekend filled with engaging discussion and social time with other Mises members and speakers. We’ll open Thursday evening, October 12 with a reception in Auburn. Friday, October 13, we’ll have discussions and lunch at the Institute and close with a dinner at the new and unique Botanic in Opelika. Saturday, we’ll be back at the Institute for more lectures before finishing with a reception and dinner in Auburn. 
We have a room block at the Auburn University Hotel, only 5 minutes from the Institute, for October 12–14. Please call (334) 821-8200 or use this link, to book, and be sure to mention the Mises event in

Join the Mises Institute at the 2023 Libertarian Scholars Conference on Saturday, September 23.
We’ll meet at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee.
The first Libertarian Scholars Conference was held in New York City in 1972 under the aegis of the Center for Libertarian Studies. The conference was held annually (except for 1973) throughout the 1970s in New York or Princeton, New Jersey (1977, 1978), with the 8th and last “national” conference taking place at the Hotel Diplomat in New York. In the early 1980s regional Libertarian Scholars Conferences were held in Chicago and other cities. The conferences featured papers by the founding fathers of modern libertarian scholarship, including Murray Rothbard, Leonard Liggio, Walter Block, Ralph Raico, Ron Hamowy, Roy

Join Joe Salerno, David Gordon, Jeff Deist, Patrick Newman, and many more at the 2022 Libertarian Scholars Conference on Saturday, September 10th!
We’ll meet at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee.
The first Libertarian Scholars Conference was held in New York City in 1972 under the aegis of the Center for Libertarian Studies. The conference was held annually (except for 1973) throughout the 1970s in New York or Princeton, New Jersey (1977, 1978), with the 8th and last “national” conference taking place at the Hotel Diplomat in New York. In the early 1980s regional Libertarian Scholars Conferences were held in Chicago and other cities. The conferences featured papers by the founding fathers of modern libertarian scholarship, including Murray Rothbard, Leonard

First, we must define inflation: it is the increase in the quantity of money, currency, and credit. It is not an increase in prices. Changes in the general price level is the consequence of a combination in changes of the quantity of deposit currency and changes in the level of the public’s retention of deposit currency relative to their possession of goods. We can record deposits statistically, but cannot quantify human behaviour.
The effect of this inflation on prices is still working through the US economy. It is important to appreciate that the inflation of bank deposits is the primary cause for the increase in raw material, production and consumer costs and prices, and not supply chain disruptions. Central bankers are being disingenuous when they insist that

This is a special virtual seminar for donors to our fall campaign.  Donate Today!
On Friday, October 8, at 2:00 p.m. CDT, Jeff Deist and Bob Murphy will discuss Mises’s views on interventionism and their continued relevance today, particularly after the last year and a half of economic intervention resulting from covid tyranny.
“[Interventionism] preserves some of the labels and the outward appearance of capitalism. It maintains, seemingly and nominally, private ownership of the means of production, prices, wages, interest rates, and profits. In fact, however, nothing counts but the government’s unrestricted autocracy… This is socialism in the outward guise of capitalism. It is the Zwangswirtschaft of Hitler’s German Reich ” —Ludwig von Mises, The Middle of the

China and Russia are trying to build a Eurasion bloc that can break free of any American spheres of influence. The American regime obviously opposes this, but money printing and debt limits the American options.

Original Article: “The Biggest Threat to US Hegemony: China, Russia, or Debt?”

Now that the Biden administration has settled in, it is time to reassess American policy towards Russia, China and the wider Asian scene. Is it going to be a continuation of the Trump administration’s policies, or is there something new going on? Given the continued tenure of staffers at the Pentagon from before the Trump presidency, it seems unlikely there will be much in the way of détente: it is game-on for the cold war to continue.
Before delving into geopolitics, we

Now that the Biden administration has settled in, it is time to reassess American policy towards Russia, China and the wider Asian scene. Is it going to be a continuation of the Trump administration’s policies, or is there something new going on? Given the continued tenure of staffers at the Pentagon from before the Trump presidency, it seems unlikely there will be much in the way of détente: it is game-on for the cold war to continue.
Before delving into geopolitics, we must be careful to define a neutral position from which to observe developments. You cannot be objective in these matters if you justify an uninvited invasion of a foreign territory to take out a proclaimed public enemy, as America did with Osama Bin Laden and then condemn Russia for attempting to