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The Free Market 11, no. 9 (September 1993)   Old Right journalist Garet Garrett described the New Deal as a revolution against America’s tradition of private property, limited government, and the rule of law. Indeed it had all die earmarks. President Roosevelt ran against government spending and deficits, but once in office acted like a dictator.

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)   Did 12 years of Reagan-Bush corrupt the Right? “Whatever they might say in their after-dinner speeches or in their op-ed pieces,” writes former Wall Street Journal editorialist David Frum in his new book Dead Right , conservatives have “effectively thrown in the towel on government spending” and given up the

The Free Market 13, no. 1 (January 1995)   The phrase “End Welfare As We Know It” is a classic Clinton evasion. It sounds bold and “neoliberal” at first, but on close examination it collapses into nothingness. Almost any change in a policy qualifies as ending it “as we know it.” It could mean cuts. It could also mean more spending and

The Free Market 13, no. 3 (March 1995)   The Republican leadership and their advisers are confirming Murray Rothbard’s doubts. Writing in the Washington Post , Rothbard noted the vast ideological divide between the voters and those who control the Republican Congress. His prediction: the leadership will defend the old order of government control

The Free Market 13, no. 6 (June 1995)   The Nafta “debate” was hardly that at all. The treaty text—the blueprint for North America’s Maastricht—didn’t appear until very late. A handful of smart economists read the text, and concluded it was an unwise political and financial merger, not free trade. Assorted groups of populists, greens, and

... but , if there is some “disruption” that “severely” affects the economy, the President is hereby given all power for the purpose of “protecting and stabilizing the Nation’s economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial

Mary Anastasia O’Grady has written an interesting analysis of the Venezuelan mess in the WSJ today, and she quotes Mises on prices: Here’s how Chávez economics “works.” As petro-dollars pour into state coffers, the government takes them to the central bank to get new bolivars printed, which are then pumped into the economy through government

I was tooling through Digg’s front page last night and came across one of those irresistible top ten titles: “ 10 Sites the Violate Digg’s TOS.” Oh fun! Click. And then shock: The site linked , RyanUnderdown.com, listed Mises.org as #2! Huh? It was like the Twilight Zone. As I looked through the rest of the list, it was clear what was going on

I’m intrigued by this NYT explanation : “a surprising culprit: uncertainty created by the government’s push to increase the supply of biofuels like ethanol in coming years. In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush called for a sharp increase in the use of biofuels, along with some improvement in automobile fuel efficiency to

A visitor from Venus drops down to Earth last month right in the middle of the Don Imus conbobulation. And since someday he’s thinking he’d like to run a 30-minute talk show here on Earth, he’s wondering about the protocol. What’s the rule? Like on Venus radio it’s acceptable to refer to Martians as bug-eyed bellicose guys with zap guns who want