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- 2001
Mises Daily
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Jay Chris Robbins
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New regulations that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has handed down in the wake of last Tuesday’s murderous attack include several that are arbitrary, burdensome, and unlikely to make our airplanes or airports any safer. Some of these rules have left pilots, passengers, and security experts scratching their heads. Abolishing curbside
Mises Daily
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Dale Steinreich
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The mischief done by bad ideologies, surely, is much more pernicious, both for the individual and for the whole society, than that done by narcotic drugs. If one abolishes man’s freedom to determine his own consumption, one takes all freedoms away. The naive advocates of government interference with consumption...unwittingly support the case of
Mises Daily
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Nicolas Bouzou
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In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case Against a New International Financial Architecture. By David DeRosa. (Bloomberg Press: 2001) $19.56. David DeRosa’s latest book, In Defense of Free Capital Markets , has been hailed by such eminent economists as Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz, and Steve Hanke as one of the best libertarian
Mises Daily
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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California is a beautiful state with a (mostly) mild, sunny climate, which is one reason why so many people live there. But who would want to move there, it is often asked, if one had to endure chronic water shortages, earthquakes and now, “rolling blackouts?” These events are typically blamed on either Mother Nature or the free market, but in
Mises Daily
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Tibor R. Machan
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As reported in The New York Times [link requires registration] an emerging and relatively novel school of economic theorists is now making a pitch for more government regulation of the economy. In particular, Professors David Laibson of Harvard University and Sendhil Mullainathan of MIT are making some waves with their idea that economic
Mises Daily
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Karen De Coster, CPA
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Propose that energy needs be met through more production, and up will go the cry from the left: not production but conservation! Have these people had a new idea since the New Deal? In 1943, the Government Printing Office for the Office of Price Administration made a placard that read: “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler!” Hence, supporting
Mises Daily
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Karen De Coster, CPA
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Waiting To Inhale . By Alan Bock. (Seven Locks Press, 2000, 286 pages) $18.95. Alan Bock, senior editorial writer for the Orange County Register , knows marijuana. Bock has covered California’s medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215, since the movement began in 1996. His book, Waiting to Inhale , gives its readers a smoking inside look at
Mises Daily
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Ninos P. Malek
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NOTE: The Mises Institute neither buys nor sells kidney, nor any other bodily organ, nor are we prepared to receive bodily organs as in-kind gifts. On April 18, the Fox News Channel reported that the federal government, led by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, is trying to rally support for organ donations. Even celebrities are supportive of this
Mises Daily
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Douglas Carey
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Sometimes we notice anomalies in our relatively well functioning economic system, and we wonder how they could exist. For instance, how is it possible that fully 25% of all airline flights were either delayed or canceled last year? How can California be having electricity shortages and rolling blackouts when their electricity market was