Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009), first American Nobel Prize laureate (1970) has died, at the age of 94. I was lucky to meet him at the M.I.T on the glorious day of November 9, 1989, the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the day that symbolized the end of the world system of the communist slavery. We are all advised
Fidel Castro is dead, and the mainstream media in the US and elsewhere are beside themselves with grief over their fallen hero. If you are not sickened by the disease of Castrophilia, it is obvious that there is nothing good to say about this mass murderer, except that he was lucky enough to live into his 90s. I’ve been to Cuba several times.
[This week marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Yuri Maltsev. Dr. Maltsev had been an economist in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, and defected to the United States in 1989. This article is an adaptation of a lecture written by Dr. Maltsev for the 2011 Austrian Scholars Conference in Auburn, Alabama.] The opening lines of the state
Patrick Barron, Professor of Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa pointed my attention to the following article: The Chemist’s War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/ Here’s a quote from the article: Frustrated that
Our booming green-industrial complex built up by administrations of both parties in the US is effectively using the United Nations, its thirty two “sister” institutions — such as the World Bank, UNESCO, and numerous “tribunals” — and hundreds of training and research centers. This huge international bureaucratic buildup is already employing over a
[Esta semana se cumple un año de la muerte de Yuri Maltsev. El Dr. Maltsev había sido economista en la Unión Soviética bajo Gorbachov, y desertó a los Estados Unidos en 1989. Este artículo es una adaptación de una conferencia escrita por el Dr. Maltsev para la Austrian Scholars Conference de 2011 en Auburn, Alabama]. Las primeras líneas del himno
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