Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
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Some Unpleasant Federal Reserve Arithmetic
“While the Fed is trying to remove the punch bowl with its left hand by raising interest rates, it is trying to put the punch bowl back with its right hand by adding $20+ billion each month in new money to the financial system and periodic ‘assistance’ programs adding even more liquidity to the market.”…
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Punishing the Punishers
“If, though, the FBI, NEA, NPR, or the ‘Ministry of Truth’ receives an allocation of, say, only $10, the punishment for incompetence or venality has been fairly meted out, has it not? What could be more democratic than direct dollar democracy?” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The Collapse of the USSR Was One the Best Things that Happened to the Environment
“These proportions suggest that the collapse of the USSR was an incredibly cheap climate-change mitigation ‘policy.’ Indeed, the mitigation was itself a benefit to economic growth rather than a cost.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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To Consumers, All Costs are Transaction Costs
“Remember, transaction costs are triangulation, transfer, and trust.” ~ Michael Munger
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Cleaned by Capitalism and Soiled by Socialism
“There’s no question that the environment in which modern humans live is immeasurably cleaner, safer, and more pleasant than was the filthy and dangerous environment in which all of our pre-industrial ancestors lived.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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In Memoriam: Walter LeCroy
“After spending much of his life fighting for liberty and defending freedom, Walter passed peacefully in his sleep.” ~ Brad DeVos
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Cable News Likely to “Disappear” Within a Decade (and That’s OK)
“Schumpeter saw there would be a natural impulse to ‘conserve obsolescent industries,’ but he rightly understood this was generally a futile and self-defeating task.” ~Jon Miltimore
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Three Myths About Marx
“Findings suggest that political events, rather than intellectual renown, placed Marx on the map.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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If the Russian Revolution Never Happened, Who Was Karl Marx?
“What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Would anyone today even know who Karl Marx was?” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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Politics as Self-Interest: Housing Is the Exception That Proves the Rule
“The costs of NIMBYism hit renters, landowners, employers, and future generations hard. But of those groups, only landowners have the direct incentive to show up to support projects being built on their own land. ” ~ Jason Sorens
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Some Unpleasant Federal Reserve Arithmetic
“While the Fed is trying to remove the punch bowl with its left hand by raising interest rates, it is trying to put the punch bowl back with its right hand by adding $20+ billion each month in new money to the financial system and periodic ‘assistance’ programs adding even more liquidity to the market.”…
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Punishing the Punishers
“If, though, the FBI, NEA, NPR, or the ‘Ministry of Truth’ receives an allocation of, say, only $10, the punishment for incompetence or venality has been fairly meted out, has it not? What could be more democratic than direct dollar democracy?” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The Collapse of the USSR Was One the Best Things that Happened to the Environment
“These proportions suggest that the collapse of the USSR was an incredibly cheap climate-change mitigation ‘policy.’ Indeed, the mitigation was itself a benefit to economic growth rather than a cost.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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To Consumers, All Costs are Transaction Costs
“Remember, transaction costs are triangulation, transfer, and trust.” ~ Michael Munger
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Cleaned by Capitalism and Soiled by Socialism
“There’s no question that the environment in which modern humans live is immeasurably cleaner, safer, and more pleasant than was the filthy and dangerous environment in which all of our pre-industrial ancestors lived.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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In Memoriam: Walter LeCroy
“After spending much of his life fighting for liberty and defending freedom, Walter passed peacefully in his sleep.” ~ Brad DeVos
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Cable News Likely to “Disappear” Within a Decade (and That’s OK)
“Schumpeter saw there would be a natural impulse to ‘conserve obsolescent industries,’ but he rightly understood this was generally a futile and self-defeating task.” ~Jon Miltimore
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Three Myths About Marx
“Findings suggest that political events, rather than intellectual renown, placed Marx on the map.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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If the Russian Revolution Never Happened, Who Was Karl Marx?
“What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Would anyone today even know who Karl Marx was?” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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Politics as Self-Interest: Housing Is the Exception That Proves the Rule
“The costs of NIMBYism hit renters, landowners, employers, and future generations hard. But of those groups, only landowners have the direct incentive to show up to support projects being built on their own land. ” ~ Jason Sorens