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The Free Market 28, no. (July 2010)   When the first Austrian Scholars Conference was held in 1992, we were at the very beginning of the Great Bubble Economy, brought to you by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke and their associates at the Fed. This shiny, bubbly “new economy” has finally gone the way of all bubble economies in history, deflating

The Free Market 24, no. 11 (December 2006)   After World War II, American politicians had the idea that Europe could be rebuilt through billions in aid and loans. The Marshall Plan did go through but not without the very vocal opposition of Henry Hazlitt, whose book, Will Dollars Save the World? showed that prosperity comes through saving, capital

Writes Markus Bergstrom I thought I should point out that the new HBO miniseries The Pacific by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg aired its first episode on Sunday. The Pacific is mainly based on the book With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge, and also features a character based on him throughout the series (although in the first episode he is only

On his blog, IdleWords.com, Polish-born Maciej Ceglowski (”as American as gooseberry pie,” but now living in northeastern Romania) tells the fascinating story of how the cure for scurvy was won and lost in a culture confident in scientific progress. Now, I had been taught in school that scurvy had been conquered in 1747, when the Scottish

Quoting Mises, Jack Crooks writes in the Asia Times : “In a country where voters know they can vote themselves the goodies and have accepted the term ‘war on terror’, it’s highly unlikely the US can get its fiscal side under control for many years to come. Thus the howls for China to do something with its currency grow

The big web story of the day is the FTC’s fight against spyware (or should we call it a War on Ads), charging a company with having deployed software that “changed users’ home pages, installed advertising and software programs on the users’ computers, and caused a deluge of pop-up windows to appear on computer screens — without the users’ consent.

A friend from Wall Street writes: “Eliot Spitzer wiped out $6B in market capitalization of Marsh and McLennan today. That is more damage than 4 hurricanes were able to inflict this year.” Ah, but consider the profits that can be earned from

The following mutually beneficial exchange takes place in Tom Sawyer , and the author concludes with a nugget of wisdom that seems to have been lost on intellectuals for a century or so: “Say -- what’s that?” [Tom asks Huckleberry Finn] “Nothing but a tick.” “Where’d you get him?” “Out in the woods.” “What’ll you take for him?” “I don’t know. I

From the New Statesman comes this claim: “The origins of modernist ideology further complicate the picture. The key figure was the Viennese architect and in-terior designer Adolf Loos, who coined the famous slogan ‘Ornament is crime’ in 1908. His own political affinities lay with the laissez-faire Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Frederick

Paula Marantz Cohen writes an excellent review of Diane Ravitch’s book The Language Police (from April 2003), which shows how today’s textbooks conjure up a world so sanitized of reality that they turn students into cynics. The politics of victimhood and absurd levels of PC predominates over learning and even plausibility. The book sounds