Friday, October 31, 2008

The S-Word

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So the S-word has surfaced in the presidential campaign. One candidate accuses the other candidate of being a socialist because he would r...

What Greenspan Missed

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made headlines around the world with this admission: “[T]hose of us who have looked to the se...

What Does Supporting the Free Market Mean?

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Dean Baker is far from a libertarian, but he often knows the score. Here's what he wrote in "Beat the Press" yesterday: NYT re...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Nationalizing Banks, Impoverishing Society

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My article on the Wall Street bailout in the American Conservative is now online. Read it here .
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Government Is Already an Income-Transfer Machine

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Isn’t it a little late for John McCain and the Republicans to start worrying about government redistribution of wealth? McCain claims to be ...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Who Needs Evidence?

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Around the corner from FEE's offices, on Main Street in Irvington, N.Y., there's a life-size statue of Rip Van Winkle awakening fro...
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What Hath Ayn Rand Wrought?

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Alan Greenspan says he is shocked to have learned that his free-market philosophy has a flaw. Banks wouldn't protect their stockholders...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

An Echo, Not a Choice

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Republicans talk about the burdens of regulation, which leaves the impression that they are for free markets. But this is wrong. Free market...
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Into the Bog

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It's still hard to tell if Joe the Plumber would pay more taxes under Obama or McCain. I've heard both sides argued. Whatever. It...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Capitalism or Freedom

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"These measures are not intended to take over the free market, but to preserve it," George W. Bush said in Orwellian tones Tues...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

The Republican Albatross

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At lunch I watched Jonathan Alter of Newsweek interviewed on MSNBC about his latest column in which he writes a near-obituary for the McCain...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Theory and Crisis

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What might be even more distressing than the current buildup of the corporate state in response to the supposed economic crisis is the way s...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Barack Harold Obama

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I don't think Republicans would be using Obama's middle name if it weren't Middle Eastern-sounding. Do you? Cross-posted at Libe...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Sorry, Sorry Performance

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John McCain couldn't even coherently explain his proposal for health insurance! I ran his "explanation" back on my DVR. It mad...
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Good Maverick, Bad Maverick

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Answer me this: why do those crowds at Sarah Palin rallies go nuts every time she invokes McCain's maverick record, when his quintessent...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The Freeman, October

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The Freeman , October 2008 , is off the press and online at FEE's website . The cover article by David Henderson is titled, "Let...
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Fannie's Folly

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Today's New York Times has an informative article on how the government egged Fannie Mae on to buy ever more high-risk mortgages during ...
Saturday, October 04, 2008

Frankly, He's a Criminal and Should be in Prison

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If you want to see the criminality of the U.S. government in all its glory, observe that Rep. Barney Frank , one of the men responsible for ...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

The Debate

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Some cable commentators, Joe Scarborough, for one, think Sarah Palin deep down is a libertarian. It must be really deep down because there w...
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The Pretense of Regulatory Knowledge

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Advocates of the free market are sometimes parodied for their seemingly all-purpose answer to any problem: Let the market handle it . What ...
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