Floy Lilley

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08/18/2011 Mises Daily Floy Lilley

In the 1970s you could not find bottled water here in these United States. But by 2009 bottled water was a $21 billion business.

Revisiting the Anthrax Crisis

07/06/2011 Mises Daily Floy Lilley

Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed.

Kudos to Both the Online Experience and the Intro to Logic Class

03/17/2011 Mises Daily Floy Lilley

Logic hasn’t always been such a poor stepchild. It was once required material for every educated adult.

Media

The Fraud of Global Warming

09/24/2008 Floy Lilley

Here are inconvenient truths that counter the fallacies of Al Gore's documentary film - An Inconvenient Truth. Man is not causing catastrophic global warming. Carbon Dioxide is the stuff of life, not a pollutant.

The Economics of Recycling

11/21/2009 Floy Lilley

Recycling happens naturally when there is market demand for waste items like plastic, paper, metal or glass, but mandated recycling does more harm than good. When do you know that recycling is worthy? You know when some person or business asks to buy your particular waste from you, not when some authority forces you to recycle.

Zamyatin Foresaw Totalitarianism and the Politics of Sex

04/26/2010 Floy Lilley

We, this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the cocoon of the One State even as his lover faces execution. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the

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