By now, Americans are beginning to get the news about how unreliable or shall I say made up, the statistics are regarding the “stimulus jobs” really are. My post yesterday, “Even Obama’s Make-Believe Jobs Are Not Real,” gratus, Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and The Washington Examiner, which provided an interactive map pointing out [...]
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Will Transparency Disappear?
Also posted in President Obama Tagged Cato Institute, CEI, For Freedom's Sake, Jobs Destroyed, Obama, Stimulus Plan, The Washington Examiner Leave a comment
Even Obama’s Make-Believe Jobs Are Not Real
In general, I am a hopeful and optimistic person when it comes to everyday life, relationships and life’s trials. However, I have become very skeptical and cynical when it comes to politics and political leaders (of all stripes). Since George W. Bush “suspended his free-market principles” to save the free-market economy by launching the huge [...]
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The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has just published its November issue of The Freeman. As our readers know, FEE is one of our favorite liberty defending educational organizations. In this issue of The Freeman topics range from government health care, government motors, the cash for clunkers fiasco, hedge funds, the stealth expansion of government [...]
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Government-Managed Capitalism: A Love Story
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty through its Action Media division is putting out some really nice video’s regarding individual liberty and free-markets. The video “Government-Managed Capitalism: A Love Story” was recently posted and is available for viewing below. A short introductory blurb for this video put together by the folks [...]
Political Arrogance And Intellectual Dishonesty Captured On Video
This has to be one of the most amazing interviews I have ever seen. Congressman Pete Stark (D) CA, demonstrates why we must not entrust our liberties and future to the political leaders of government. Stark is arrogant and incompetent regarding free-markets and the concept of wealth. He actually says that the national debt is [...]
Freedom or Free-for-All?
Lawrence Reed became the president of FEE on September 1 2008. To honor the occasion, we reprint his first “Ideas and Consequences” column, which was originally published in The Freeman in April 1994. Imagine playing a game—baseball, cards, “Monopoly,” or whatever—in which there was only one rule: anything goes. You could discard the “instruction book” [...]
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The Case for Economic Freedom – Part 2
Originally published in the Freeman By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9 Basic Values Considered Inasmuch as my own value systems and my own assumptions about human beings are so important to the case, I want to sketch them for you. To begin with, the central value in my [...]
The Case for Economic Freedom – Part 1
Originally printed in The Freeman: By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9 My economic philosophy is here offered with full knowledge that it is not generally accepted as the right one. On the contrary, my brand of economics has now become Brand X, the one that is never selected [...]
Don’t Let the Fox Guard the Chicken Coop
Posted by Peter Boettke on June 16, 2009 at 01:03 PM Posted on The Austrian Economists When asked to sum up his contributions to public economics, James Buchanan jokingly suggested that “Don’t the the fox guard the chicken coop” might capture his basic point. Among the many brilliant insights in Buchanan’s work, his insistence on [...]
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The Ongoing Desctruction of Free-Markets – The Case of Whole Foods
Defining the Extent of the Market: the Whole Foods Case Mises Daily by Art Carden | Posted on 6/2/2009 12:00:00 AM On June 28, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission issued a formal “administrative complaint” to block the proposed merger between premium grocers Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Market. They claim that it would reduce [...]
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