Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh

Contrary to Big Govt Spin, Libertarian-minded Predicted Crisis

We keep hearing from pundits on television, from Wall Street execs, and from politicians that "nobody saw this crisis coming." That's nothing short of the usual sping and lies we get from the status quo. Quite to the contrary, proponents of the libertarian-rooted Austrian School of Economics (a school of thought vs. an actual institution) have been warning about a serious crash for a long time. Not only did they warn of this crisis we're now enduring, they warned in advance of the inter...

Government’s Solutions to Economy Will Fail

With all that's been transpiring in the economy in recent weeks, we thought this picture hit the nail right on the head.  Click the image for your own copy.

Election Rules Enforced Selectively: Texas Standoff

Just moments ago, Bob Barr and our campaign manager, Russ Verney, stood on the steps of the Supreme Court of Texas to rally a crowd of supporters and answer questions from the media. Today, we filed an emergency stay to prevent the Texas Secretary of State from printing ballots until after our case was decided. For a quick recap, earlier this week we filed a lawsuit to remove both John McCain and Barack Obama from the Texas ballot. Texas election code §192.031 requires that the "written c...

Interventionist Candidates

Libertarians do not believe in global interventionism like the Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like to call libertarians "isolationists" -- a deliberate and simple-minded distortion of our views that unfortunately finds an audience among the masses more inclined to see the world in shades of only black and white. It's the same line of thinking reasoning that has many NeoConns in the Bush administration and those among McCain's advisers that can be summed up as you're either with us ...

A message on bailouts from a good friend of liberty

Dear Friends: The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived. We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the mali...