Tag Archives: Great Depression

The Political Issue of the Year

By DCT | Published: January 1, 2012

by Burt Folsom on December 28, 2011 What has been the political issue of 2011? Class Warfare. The idea that politicians can tax the rich and then give that confiscated wealth to the middle class and poor, in order to win elections with the votes of those receiving the federal funds. Certainly that idea is [...]

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Why the Crisis Hasn’t Ended

By DCT | Published: July 15, 2009

Mises Daily by Joseph Keckeissen | Posted on 7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM This is a partial re-post of the original. To read the complete post click here. Why is the world still in acute misery, even expecting the worst yet to come? All that would have been necessary to halt the continuation of the present freefall [...]

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The Flat Tax Is Not Flat and the FairTax Is Not Fair

By DCT | Published: April 5, 2009

Mises Daily by Laurence M. Vance | Posted on 4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM [This talk was given at the 2009 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute.] Our current income tax system, inaugurated in 1913 with the adoption of the 16th Amendment, began with a 1 percent tax on taxable income above $3,000 ($4,000 for married [...]

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Open Letter from One Non-Economist to Another

By DCT | Published: March 31, 2009

Mises Daily by Matthew J. Novak | Posted on 3/31/2009 12:00:00 AM Dear Dr. Drew Westen, I read your commentary this morning, as many have undoubtedly done. The economy is a very interesting and pressing current affair. I realize you may receive volumes of email regarding what you have written, so I hope you will [...]

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Is Another Great Depression Inevitable?

By DCT | Published: January 25, 2009

One of our goals at For Freedom’s Sake is to provide the underlying principles, philosophical ideas, facts, and the best and most reliable scholarship available on freedom to our readers.  In doing so, we hope to enable you to navigate through all of the noise and misinformation which blurs our ability to see our nation’s [...]

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