The NYT is already referring the “legacy” of the recession, with this an example: “Even as evidence mounts that the Great Recession has finally released its chokehold on the American economy, experts worry that the recovery may be weak, stymied by consumers’ reluctance to
It is a simple news report about regulatory changes, but the NYT figures that Ron’s book is important enough for a strong mention near the end. Times are changing.
Vincent Carroll of the Denver Post heard Obama speak of people who believe in completely unfettered markets, and went seeking such people. He couldn’t find them in any of the usual places, but he finally found one at the Mises Institute. You really must read Doug French’s comment . Don’t want to spoil
p>The guy who came up with the Major League Baseball logo was asked what he thinks about the obvious fact that other sports have copied it without credit or payment. UW: So many other sports leagues [ baseball , hockey , PGA , NBA ) have copied your approach for their logos. What do you think of that? JD: I think it’s great. Like they say,
Paul Starr, a senior adviser to the Clinton health care reform effort, wrote : “Despite the comprehensive benefit package and the extras such as prescription drug coverage for the elderly, we did not receive passionate support from the groups we were counting on. We did succeed, however, in mobilizing the opposition. The scale of the program and
MSNBC’s list of metro areas that are no longer “contracting as seriously as six months earlier” (is that really good news?) consists of 23 of 381 spots on the map. The trouble is that most are capital cities, and it is not hard to speculate why. The interactive map provides an interesting picture of nation’s economy sinking and
There are many reasons to be excited about Klein’s book. Guido Hulsmann mentioned in passing a few years ago just how rare it is for a new book to appear that focuses on pure theory in the Austrian tradition. Guido estimated that it happens about every ten to fifteen years. There are several reasons: a) writing pure theory is hard, b) the Austrian
When the Progressives, 100 years ago or so, made a push for universal compulsory schooling, and the state marched ahead to crowd out as many private alternatives to public school as possible, it was widely seen as a mechanism for social uplift. What the good rhetoric masked was the sheer totalitarian nature of the combination of state schooling
Declaration of Independence (1776): “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it” A Pledge to America (GOP, 2010): “Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to institute a new governing agenda and set a
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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