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Towards Sound Money

Peter Schiff at First Pacific Capital has introduced a new product that takes us closer to bypassing fiat currencies, but we are not there yet.

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Seasteaders: ready to make this dream come true if you are

The Seasteader’s strategy of creating new freer countries to provide competition for old authoritarian ones is conceptually powerful but always seemed slightly unlikely. The thought of living in a tiny...

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Politics of Jeff Bezos

When I heard that Jeff Bezos had purchased the Washington post I, like many, thought “hang on, isn’t he one if those libertarian techy types?”, so on Tuesday I posted, to the effect that indeed he...

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Project Meshnet

A couple of clicks away from Ven Portman’s call to arms, posted yesterday, is Project Meshnet. When I suggested we needed to help each other learn about distributed computing, this is the kind of thing...

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What are these guys doing?

When I encountered this video randomly, it took me a while to work out what was happening. Pitches? For what? What’s with the folks running around pretending to be chickens and what does all this have...

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Could Direct Care shame the NHS into reform?

Direct Care or “Concierge Medicine” is a reformed way to pay for health care that is gaining in popularity in the United States, there is even a SitCom about a Direct Care practitioner in the wealthy...

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I’d like to get a bunch of like minded people together and…

I’m crowd sourcing some campaigning ideas. What would you do with a whole bunch of people like yourself? Don’t worry too much about how many you would need. Post by Libertarian Home.

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Building Galt’s Gulch

Astonished. That was the overwhelming thought I was left with after listening to a 73 minute podcast between the brash, sexually liberated, libertarian American, ‘King of the Nerds’, Brian Sovryn and a...

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Your NHS GP is a Libertarian, but doesn’t know it

‘Getting to see you is like trying to get tickets to see a rockstar’ a retired lady observed yesterday in clinic. This was probably the most polite expression of a patient’s frustrations around access...

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Counter economics is not just for agorists

The former communications director of the LPUK, Ken Fergusson, writes: I believe the correct libertarian response to democracy (and government) is to ignore it. Ken is not only inconsistent, he is...

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“Free Speech on Trial”– Short Documentary

Short Documentary Lays Out Controversial Tax Case, Shows How Citizen Documentary Can Create Change On July 25, 2014, Doreen Hendrickson was convicted of contempt of court. She was recently sentenced to...

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Martin Keegan on the Evolution of Private Cooperation

How and why do we cooperate? Often we cooperate because the government forces us to. We also cooperate to make a profit. But what about cooperating to do things that are we think are just, you know,...

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Video: Poverty Solutions Without Politics – Syed Kamall

Syed Kamall started his talk to Libertarian Home by saying that he knew quite a few of the people in the audience. But this was not to ingratiate himself with us. His point was that although he is...

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How can I do in 2016 what I did not do in 2015?

There are plenty of roundups up the year and previews of next year floating around at the moment. Any brand which desires your long-term engagement (and they all do) is making sure to tell you what...

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Let’s imagine an alternative to the NHS in this best of all possible worlds

The NHS is on strike today with 4000 operations cancelled in a dispute over pay and conditions. The government’s contract negotiations with junior doctors became more bitter recently with the...

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Railway privatisation in America

By Tom WalkerThe history of railways in Britain follows a similar pattern that found throughout Europe and much of the world. The railways were built by private companies, which later merged and...

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The EU is insular; we need to build a global marketplace

The Remain campaign is based almost entirely on the benefits of the Single Market. As I have previously pointed out, remaining in the Single Market is likely to be central to Brexit transition...

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Bitcoin – A Textbook Example of Investing Psychology

Bitcoin seems unstoppable. Since I last wrote about it in June, the price has doubled again. And with every new high, the bitcoin community gets more emboldened in their view that bitcoin is changing...

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Why Intrinsic Value Matters To Crypto Currencies

Crypto currencies were one of the big stories of the now ending year 2017. These once geeky little software projects have truly hit the mainstream, and exploded in price. Bitcoin valuations are now...

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The Bond Bubble Has Burst

I am calling it. What we are seeing in the markets right now is the start of the next big financial crisis. The huge bubble in government debt has begun to burst. It took a few years, but investors...

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