Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Mises and Mussolini

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In fairness to Ludwig von Mises (whom Michael Lind uses, cynically and dishonestly, as example of libertarian softness on fascism; see post ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Michael Lind’s False Alternative

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Michael Lind writes at Salon.com: “Having denounced liberals as crypto communists for half a century during the Cold War, the American righ...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

TGIF: Social Cooperation, Part 2

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Only individuals value, choose, and act, of course, but in an important sense the resulting social whole is greater than the sum of its indi...

Op-Ed: Federal Reserve Grabs New Powers

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While inflation hawks understandably keep a close watch on the Federal Reserve’s money-creation activities, an equally worrisome Fed activit...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Chris Matthews Takes Two Hits

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Hey, I neglected to post my two latest offerings, both of which show my favorite cable talking head is full of baloney: "TGIF: Progre...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

You Hear That?

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Media message to candidates: It's okay to oppose government spending and debt, but if you oppose war and empire, we'll marginalize t...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Budget Cutting, Washington-Style

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HT: John Stossel

Op-Ed: Politicians in a Panic

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You can almost see the panic on their faces. The politicians, central bankers, and court economists seem to be thrashing around like bad swi...

TGIF: Social Cooperation

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At FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics Seminar last week, more than one speaker mentioned that Ludwig von Mises considered a different title f...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Face It

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Unless you want world government, you're already an anarchist. We're just haggling over the level. Published with Blogger-droid v1.7...
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Days of Infamy 66 Years Ago

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Today is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of President Harry Truman's two acts of butchery against J...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Entrepreneurial Anarchy

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There are security problems in anarchy and outside it. The difference is that in anarchy solving those problems earns entrepreneurial profit...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

AA+

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There are worse things in the world than fear of lending to the US government. Here's one: eagerness to lend. Published with Blogger-dro...
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Friday, August 05, 2011

Op-Ed: A Cheer and a Half for the Tea Party.

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Were it not for the Tea Party, the debt-ceiling controversy might never have taken place. Kudos on that count alone. The rest of the op-ed, ...
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TGIF: The Debt Sky

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Since the sky is now apparently the limit, I rechristen the debt ceiling “the debt sky.” But seriously — no, that was serious. The rest of ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

TGIF: The New Fed

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“Things are seldom what they seem.” –W.S. Gilbert, “H.M.S. Pinafore” Nowhere is this more true than in government – which means we have to w...

Op-Ed: “Shared Sacrifice”: Obama's Demagoguery

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The most offensive claim made during the debt-ceiling controversy is that there’s a moral equivalence between cutting government spending an...
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Default ... or Renege?

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Via Don Boudreaux, Roger Garrison notes that one cannot choose to default. As he wrote to Boudreaux: You mention, though, that the governme...
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I've Figured It Out

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The bond rating is a gauge of taxpayer docility. Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4
Thursday, July 28, 2011

How I Feel about the Government's Debt

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From the incomparable Lysander Spooner: This business of lending blood-money is one of the most thoroughly sordid, cold-blooded, and crimina...
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