Michael Matulef

We’re are at the point of history where most April Fool’s jokes are indistinguishable from totally real things that happen regularly now. 😅

The ruling class, through their State, manipulates, distorts, corrupts, and undermines the economy so that when it coughs, they can cry "disease" and when it faulters, they can cry "it cannot live," and fool the economically illiterate to embrace it and reject voluntary exchange.

My latest piece with @mises

The challenge, then, isn’t to beat the machines but to learn to work meaningfully alongside them.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

The real lesson is to accept scarcity, respect prices, and seek your comparative advantage in a world where AI is just another tool—not to retreat into a lonely, inefficient attempt to do by hand what your tools could help you transcend.

Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment Published Today by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on March 2, 2026 propertyandfreedom.org/2026/03/rothba… Stephan Kinsella and I are pleased to announce the publication of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026) free and online today, March 2, 2026, on the occasion of Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was one of the world’s greatest champions of the human liberty. In his honor, and to commemorate his 100th birthday, on March 2, 2026, the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) has assembled this collection of tributes to and commentary on him and his work by PFS members, including many who knew him personally. This book is released in digital form today, March 2, 2026, on Murray’s 100th birthday. Print, in both paperback and deluxe hardcover, and kindle/epub/pdf versions will be made available shortly. For more details, see the book’s landing page. We hope all admirers of liberty and Rothbard will enjoy this book and join us in sending well wishes and gratitude Murray’s way, wherever he may be.nb @propfreedom, @saifedean

AI will (potentially) replace 40% of jobs in the next decade. Schools are still teaching kids to memorize state capitals. The gap between what's coming and what we're preparing for has never been wider.

Regardless of the advancements in AI, the central question does not change: given scarcity, what should you do with your time, and what should you let the tools do?

Crucially, no one needs to know this pattern in advance. No one has to sit down with a spreadsheet and assign roles. The market is the discovery process that finds and constantly updates the pattern of comparative advantages.

Whenever people differ—and they always do—in skills, tools, knowledge, and circumstances, there exists some pattern of specialization and exchange that makes all of them better off than they would be alone.

We trade not because we are poor and lack things, but because trade expands the range of ends we can achieve.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means, as De Tocqueville described it, “a new form of servitude.” - F. A. Hayek

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O estado moderno não obtém o seu poder do consentimento dos governados. Ao invés, fabrica crises e depois recorre à coerção para exigir obediência, manufactura o caos até que se implore por grilhões. mises.pt/para-de-lutar-…

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A terrific piece by @MichaelMatulef describing how the coercive state expands its authority through division, and manufactured crises. The best part is there's a solution, something each of us can do to exit the game. This article is well worth the read! mises.org/mises-wire/sto…

@brian_trollz We don’t need a coercive state monopoly for any of that. The real question is why we still pretend the most dangerous monopoly on earth is the only way to get those services.

1) Property protection 2) Judicial arbitration 3) Environmental protection 4) Basic infrastructure 5) Collective protection (arguably part of 1) Wtf else do we actually need government to do?

My latest with @mises

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The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience. | Michael Matulef mises.org/mises-wire/sto…