Neither Brown Nor Red
"The film brilliantly portrays how the Right prepares the way for the Left — in both the United States and Russia."
"The film brilliantly portrays how the Right prepares the way for the Left — in both the United States and Russia."
We have become the people our founding fathers warned us (and tried to protect us) against.
Whether one calls oneself a Communist, Socialist, New Dealer, or just plain "democrat," one begins with the premise that the individual is of consequence only as a servant of the mass idol.
Central economic planning and laissez-faire capitalism are completely incompatible concepts — by definition.
The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.
Ultimately, then, the effects of Earth Hour boil down to dim rhetoric. Maybe as much attention should be placed on humanity's hot air footprint as its carbon one.
The Austrian arguments, to repeat, are deductive. They are not statistical.
Given how many Keynesian economists predicted a return to depression conditions when World War II spending came to an end, and that what we instead got was the single most robust year the private economy has ever seen, isn't it a little strange that not one of these economists went back and reexamined his premises?
From the standpoint of both politics and history, this proof [of the "impossibility" of socialist planning] is certainly the most important discovery by economic theory.