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Joel Bowman

Joel Bowman is managing editor of The Daily Reckoning. After completing his degree in media communications and journalism in his home country of Australia, Joel moved to Baltimore to join the Agora Financial team. His keen interest in travel and macroeconomics first took him to New York where he regularly reported from Wall Street, and he now writes from and lives all over the world.

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Freedom Naturally: A Review of Morris and Laura Tannehill’s “The Market for Liberty”

May 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
It is at times useful to imagine how a truly laissez-faire society, one entirely emancipated from the shackles of state coercion, might exist and operate. Morris and Linda Tannehill examine this very idea in, The Market for Liberty: Is Government Really Necessary? Market for Liberty imagines a totally free society; one ...read more

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In Praise of Anarchy

Jan 24th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
Left alone, good people tend to do good things. And, when unobstructed by coercion, force, violence or any other tool employed by the state in order to foster and maintain a more “responsible,” “socially conscious” citizenship, most people tend toward being good people...all on their very own. Nowhere was this sentiment ...read more

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The Only Good Vote Is a Non-Vote

Nov 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
A reminder to all those trigger-happy voters out there: Remember, a vote of no confidence is still a vote and, for true freedom lovers, perhaps the most important one of all. To this editor’s mind, the only way to avoid being complicit in the crimes the victorious party will inevitably commit ...read more

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