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- 2004
Mises Daily
Author:
D.W. MacKenzie
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The New Jersey legislature recently responded to calls for reforming state automobile laws. Some claim that these laws will increase competition. Given the track record of this legislature in regulating auto insurance, there are good reasons to be wary of this legislation. Does it really improve this situation overall, or is it just another payoff
Mises Daily
Author:
Carl F. Horowitz
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Private pensions in this country date back more than 100 years, that is to say, to a time when most people didn’t live long enough to collect them. Nowadays Americans take living comfortably to 75 and beyond to be an entitlement. Not that longevity in itself is something to complain about, but it does have a few downsides—like a gradually sinking
Mises Daily
Author:
Gregory Bresiger
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I’ve just returned from the Security Traders Association’s Washington conference, which had as its featured speaker Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson. My editor and I were naturally looking for exciting stories to fill the pages of Traders Magazine. In a sense, we obtained plenty of news. Donaldson gave us tons of
Mises Wire
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Gil Guillory
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The husband of an acquaintance has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on a guily plea of importing endangered orchid species. Although this has been unfolding for months, I just found out last night. The whole affair was very well summarized by the pollenatrix back in a March entry . My heart goes out to George and his wife Kathy, the
Mises Daily
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Christopher Westley
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Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the Bush Administration is the great chasm between its rhetoric and its actions. There is much difference between the faith in civic virtue declared in George W. Bush’s inaugural address and the attacks on civil liberties found in the Patriot Act. Similarly, Candidate Bush’s campaign speeches on a humble
Mises Daily
Author:
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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Freedom can stand or fall on issues large (wars, depressions, natural disasters) or small (a hundred thousand regulations that manage our daily life). Regulations on food labeling count among the small issues. It is a tricky issue for market advocates because bad labeling might actually count as breach of contract and thereby require legal
Mises Daily
Author:
Shawn Ritenour
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Recently Tom Lehman lamented one of the frustrations free market economists often face when reading economic journalism: opposing bad policy for the wrong reasons.One of the earliest memories I have of feeling this pain was in college and reading that the first President Bush wanted a decrease in the capital gains tax because it would result in