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Mises Daily
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Tom Lehman
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal is a perfect example of how bad economic arguments in support of good ends can be easily twisted and used to confuse the general public (Gwendolyn Bounds, “ Argument for minimum-wage boost ,” 7/27/04, p. B3). When we engage in poor reasoning and faulty economic logic in support of a noble cause, we can
Mises Daily
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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
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Ninos P. Malek
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People engage in fierce competition everyday. Entrepreneurs strive to create the next Microsoft, employees fight their way up the corporate ladder to become the next Donald Trump, and competitive athletes train their bodies to reach the level of a Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods. We can all appreciate the drive and spirit behind the competitive
Mises Daily
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Erich Mattei
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The self-identified champions of civil rights have prided themselves, for almost half of a century, on the violent eradication of ‘employment discrimination’ and pledge allegiance to affirmative action initiatives and other government imposed programs of the like. A recent headline about opposition to a new Louisiana state job application presents
Mises Daily
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Christopher Westley
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Frank Quattrone sent a 22-word e-mail to his employees reminding them of an existing policy. Now he is going to jail for it. In this latest surreal ordeal of one of the prominent private sector players of the investment boom of the 1990s, the feds successfully brought criminal charges against a man for actions that were clearly of a civil nature,
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Ken Lay, Martha Stewart, and now Frank P. Quattrone must have been the culprits who caused the recession of 2001 and are also responsible for the relatively poor performance of the economy since then. We can think of no other reason as to why the U.S. Government has embarked upon numerous criminal investigations of business firms and their
Mises Daily
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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