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David Stockman on his Book and the Bailouts
Greenspan took the Federal Reserve, which for years had been run by far more cautious and conservative men, and turned it into a machine for fine-tuning every aspect of the economy.
Obamacare and Other Disasters
David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.
Lilly Ledbetter Re-considered
The real problem in our current regulated market is that due to government intervention in a cartelized tire industry, we now pay more for tires and there are fewer of them.
Without the State, Who Would Invent Tang?
During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Obama made his now famous claim that “you didn’t build that” in reference to the infrastructure that businesses use to provide goods and services to customers.
A Political Hell on Wheels
The first Transcontinental’s were all creatures, not of capitalism or the private markets, but of government.
Two Sides of the Same Debased Coin
Crony capitalism and Keynesianism are just two sides of the same debased coin.
A Very Special Year
Celebrating anniversaries for the Austrian School of economics. One hundred years ago, Ludwig von Mises began his career as an intellectual leader and creative genius with his groundbreaking The Theory of Money and Credit. Fifty years ago, Murray Rothbard took his own place in the ranks of creative geniuses, and inaugurated the modern Austrian movement with his great treatise Man, Economy, and State. And thirty years ago, Lew Rockwell, with the help of Margit von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Ron Paul, and heroic donors, created the first institution solely dedicated to Austrian economics, the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
