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Mar 25th, 2011 |
By Don Cooper |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
American Fear
Whether they realize it or not Americans live in a constant state of fear every day. I’m not referring to the fears of everyday life like losing a job or having an accident of some kind, but rather a more sinister and devious fear; a fear that Americans only ...
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Tags: government, taxation, tyranny
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties |
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Mar 18th, 2011 |
By Gary North |
Category: Economics, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Do you trust men with guns and badges to provide long-term economic growth? Or do you trust the free market?
When push comes to shove — recession — most people trust guns and badges far more than they trust the free market.
Do you trust the Federal Reserve System to maintain prosperity? ...
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Tags: central planning, Gold, gold standard, government, Milton Friedman
Posted in Economics, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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Mar 5th, 2011 |
By Steven Greenhut |
Category: Featured, Politics
You might have noticed that there’s been a little turmoil in Madison, Wisconsin, of late.
With the public employee unions making themselves heard in a fight against Governor Scott Walker, we thought this would be a great time to talk to Steven Greenhut.
Steven is the author of Plunder: How Public Employee ...
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Tags: california, government, government employee unions, Wisconsin
Posted in Featured, Politics |
6 comments
Mar 4th, 2011 |
By Robert Higgs |
Category: Featured, Politics
All animals experience fear — human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of size, speed, or other attributes. Fear alerts us to dangers that threaten our well-being and sometimes our very lives. Sensing fear, we respond by running ...
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Tags: fear, government, imagined threats
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Feb 28th, 2011 |
By Thomas DiLorenzo |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The main reason so many state and local governments are bankrupt, or on the verge of bankruptcy, is the combination of government-run monopolies and government-employee unions. Government-employee unions have vastly more power than do private-sector unions because the entities they work for are typically monopolies.
When the employees of a grocery ...
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Tags: bankruptcy, government, monopoly, power to tax, unions
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Jan 28th, 2011 |
By Scott Lazarowitz |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The Economic Collapse Blog has this list of examples of how European-style “austerity” is already hitting the U.S., including cities closing schools and fire stations, and states eliminating whole state agencies and raising taxes. That includes the state of Illinois whose legislature has passed a “temporary” 66% personal income tax ...
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Tags: America, freedom, government, the State
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Dec 1st, 2010 |
By Simon Black |
Category: Featured, International, Politics
In 43 BC, over 2,000 years ago, warring consuls Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were duking it out with each other over control of Rome following Julius Caesar’s assassination the prior March.
Each had legions at his disposal, and Rome’s terrified Senate sat on its hands waiting for the outcome.
Ultimately, the three ...
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Tags: expatriation, government, invisible lines on a map, police state, Rome
Posted in Featured, International, Politics |
28 comments
Nov 8th, 2010 |
By Robert Murphy |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Last week’s episode of 60 Minutes featured a 13-minute segment on “taxing the rich” in order to cure the government’s debt problem. In addition to being an outrageously biased story, the coverage was filled with more economic fallacies than I can address in a single article.
“Progressive” Income-Tax Codes Lead to ...
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Tags: government, millionaire tax, progressive taxation
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
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Nov 1st, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Politics
Louis: So, Doug, about the Tea Party?
Doug: Consider what seems to be brewing in the Tea Party movement. It’s just a straw in the wind, of no real significance itself, but a foreshadowing of something ominous. All the false hope this Tea Party movement is creating impresses me as similar ...
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Tags: Glenn Beck, government, religion, republicans, tea party
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Aug 23rd, 2010 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, International, Politics
If Henry David Thoreau was right when he wrote, “That government is best which governs least,” then Australia got itself the best government in the world on Saturday.
Of course technically speaking, Australia didn’t elect a government. And that government which is not a government cannot govern at all. Thus, “not ...
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Tags: Australia, China, Federal Reserve, government, Mineral Resource Rent Tax
Posted in Featured, International, Politics |
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