What a pleasure to be able to promote two different freedom loving gentlemen through one video. Lawrence Reed, president of The Foundation for Economic Education, is interviewed by Pete Eyre one of the courageous members of Motorhome Diaries. Watch the video and then visit www.fee.org (or click on the FEE link on our home page) [...]
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The Foundation for Economic Education & Motorhome Diaries
Posted in Battle for Liberty Also tagged Jason Talley, Liberty Larry Reed, Motorhome Diaries, Pete Eyre, Ryan Maddox 3 Comments
Give Up? Are You Kidding?
B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]
Posted in Individual Liberty Also tagged Declaration of Independence, George Washington, Lawrence W. Reed, liberty, Thomas Paine, Tyranny Leave a comment
Peter Schiff called “Extremist” by Time Magazine
Peter Schiff has been right because he is a solid student of the Austrian School of Economics. His views are solid and scientific. What is amazing here is the Time interviewer, as does everybody else, knows that Schiff has been right on his predictions about the collapse of the economy but still says that the [...]
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Austrian School of Ecnonmics, Mises Institute, Peter Schiff, The Great Depression, Time Magazine Leave a comment
The Goal Is Freedom
GOVERNMENT BIAS By Sheldon Richman • Published: 17 April 2009 on the Foundation For Economic Education Website. Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief.” He is a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (“Fascism”). Anyone discussing social and economic problems with a hardcore free-market advocate hears a string of indictments [...]
On the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, Part I
If you really want to understand the causes of the boom and bust cycles of our economy you need to study the Austrian schools, theory of the trade cycle. Donald Boudreaux, chairman of the economics department at George Mason University, does an excellent job of boiling it down, for the non-economist, into the basic concepts [...]
“You May Get Medical Care or You May Not…It May Not Be Your Choice”
The dangers of socialized medicine are real and your choices will be limited. To see just how dangerous health care reform is, that was hidden in the stimulus bill, see, “Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan,” a commentary by Betsy McCaughey posted February 9th on Bloomberg.com. The details are, to say the least, [...]
“FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS”*
By Leonard E. Read A professor writes, “It seems to me that it is quite an unworthy goal for businessmen to go to work for the sake of bringing profit to the stock-holders.” The head of a large corporation bemoans the bad image of business and contends that the first consideration of American business is, [...]
Posted in Economics 101, Free Markets Also tagged Adam Smith, Leonard Read, The Freeman, The Wealth of Nations, Thomas Jefferson Leave a comment
A Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty
By Lawrence W. Reed, President of Foundation for Economic Education For Freedom’s Sake is announcing our first in what we hope to be an inspiring series of articles and posts on the men and women who heralded the ideas of liberty and/or survived tyranny and lived to tell their stories for which we may be [...]
Posted in Individual Liberty, Tyranny Also tagged Cambodia, Communists, Dr. Haing Ngor, Dr. Lawrence Reed, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Survivor of Tyranny, The Killing Fields Leave a comment
