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Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[ From the Libertarian Forum , June 1971] New Yorkers have recently had to suffer yet another irresponsible blackjacking at the hands of power-drunk labor unions. This time it was the bridge tenders and garbage-incinerator workers who, angered at the state legislature’s balking at their receiving pensions that no private industry could afford,
Mises Daily
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Ben O'Neill
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“The notion that ‘Mother Earth’ would ever have cause to complain of its treatment at the hands of humans is pure mysticism.” I’ll bet you forgot to buy a card and gift, didn’t you? Boy, is your face red! Did you even know it’s International Mother Earth Day today, citizen? Socialist despot Evo Morales and his buddies at the United Nations sure
Mises Daily
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Robert P. Murphy
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In the wake of the stock-market plunge and S&P downgrade, economic pundits of all stripes are rushing to explain events. But as so often happens in economics, “believing is seeing.” Keynesians, monetarists, and Austrians can all look at the slow-motion train wreck and feel vindicated by the data. Naturally, I agree with Jeffrey Tucker that of the
Mises Daily
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Art Carden
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[This article originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of the Freeman as “The Great Depression and World War II.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Keith Hocker, is available for download .] The current economic climate has a lot of people talking about the Great Depression. In particular, it has been said by people of divergent
Mises Daily
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Jim Fedako
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The flame must have burned dull, since it burned unnoticed. Then without warning it brightened, revealing the face of a criminal. I called my children in close. “Let’s go home,” I said in a low voice. We withdrew from the parking lot, disappointed frowns marching homeward, while I turned to keep an eye fixed on the lonely car and its driver. The
Mises Daily
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Leonard E. Read
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[ The Free Market and Its Enemy (1965)] Any individual who has become aware of the free market and its miraculous performances must realize that its opposite — socialism — is growing by leaps and bounds. This growth, at the moment, is not so much in formal takeover (nationalization of the modes of production) as in political control and the
Mises Daily
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Kel Kelly
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The AMA Monopoly While most people believe that our healthcare industry is one comprised of free markets, it is anything but. The industry is completely distorted by government manipulation. [1] To start with, the American Medical Association (AMA) has had a government-granted monopoly on the healthcare system for over 100 years. It has
Mises Daily
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Ryan P. Long
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Ron Paul’s recent reply to a question posed to him by Wolf Blitzer reveals an interesting litmus test for whether or not a person accepts the fundamental premise of modern (Keynesian) macroeconomics. As Politico reports , Appearing on CNN ahead of the speech, Paul was pressed by Wolf Blitzer on how eliminating about 221,000 government jobs across
Mises Daily
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Stephen Mauzy
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Mexico is rapidly withering. Its very life is being siphoned off by a hopeless war on illegal drugs. If ever there was an abject display of government pigheadedness and stupidity, it is this ridiculous insistence on banning the unbannable. In the past five years, Mexico tallied 34,600 homicides related to its government’s war on illegal drugs.