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MISES CIRCLES














            LIVING FREE IN AN                                  INFLATION: CAUSES,
            UNFREE WORLD                                       CONSEQUENCES,

            ALBUQUERQUE,                                       AND CURE

            NEW MEXICO                                         TAMPA, FLORIDA

            Sponsored by George and Sally Gundrey              Sponsored by Liberty Villages and the
            Mises Institute supporters, faculty, and staff met   Shrader Family
            for the first-ever Mises Circle in New Mexico. Mises   For the fourth consecutive year, we met in Tampa, Florida,
            Institute Senior Fellow Peter Klein discussed how   for our first event of the year. We gathered to discuss
            technology can help the cause of freedom but       inflation, its causes, and how to cure it. President Tom
            can also be used to surveil and regulate private   DiLorenzo spoke about the various groups that benefit
            citizens. Executive Editor Ryan McMaken spoke      from inflation and therefore have a stake in a permanent
            on how the private sector must build up private    price inflation regime. Mises Fellow Patrick Newman
            institutions—like churches and families—to         detailed the redistributive effects of inflation, expanding
            fight and replace the state. Afterward, attendees   on Murray Rothbard’s characterization of inflation as
            enjoyed a lunch of New Mexican cuisine and         a race to acquire new money. To close, Academic Vice
            participated in a Q&A with the speakers.           President and Senior Fellow Joseph Salerno showed
                                                               how inflation destroys human personality, using 1930s
                                                               Germany as a vivid example.





                                  CENSORSHIP AND OFFICIAL LIES:
                                  THE END OF TRUTH IN AMERICA?


                                  LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS

                                  Sponsored by Chris Condon, James McMahon, and Jim Nardulli

                                  The Mises Institute and the Ron Paul      determination to monitor and manage
                                  Institute for Peace and Prosperity partnered   our online activities in order to control our
                                  to host an event in Lake Jackson, Texas, in   access to the truth. DiLorenzo brought
                                  April. The event featured President Tom   historical context to the discussion, shining
                                  DiLorenzo, Executive Editor Ryan McMaken,   light on the state’s relentless efforts to
                                  Daniel McAdams, and, of course, Ron Paul.   manipulate the truth.

                                  McMaken spoke about seditious conspiracy,   Ron Paul closed the event, reflecting on
                                  which he described as a fake crime that   his years in the liberty movement and
                                  the regime uses to silence and punish     explaining that hope lives in events like
                                  people doing or saying things it doesn’t   this, put on by organizations like the Mises
                                  like. McAdams highlighted Washington’s    Institute.



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