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Archives for October 2012
What Should I Ask the Atlanta Fed President?
A member of my Liberty Classroom asks in our discussion forums: So, the Atlanta Federal Reserve President, Dennis Lockhart, is coming to my school to give a lecture on the Fed’s role in monetary policy. Does anyone have any good suggestions for questions I should ask him… Read More
The War on Drugs Revisited
IN THE MAIL: The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom , by Laurence M. Vance.
Without College Everyone Would Be an Idiot, Right?
I’d like to quote this whole article from Yahoo News, and so I highly recommend you read it, but I especially like this passage, which considers how people might acquire knowledge in a world without the presumption that everyone should go to college. Why, wouldn’t we all be… Read More
A Libertarian Puzzle
A reader writes: I am writing from India, a country cloaked in Socialist government policies. I came across Austrian School of Economics on the Internet, and was surprised that even after studying Economics for five years, my coursework included not a shred of any work… Read More
Not All ‘End the Fed’ People Quite Get It
Several days ago I managed to get myself drawn into a Facebook exchange with someone who opposes the Federal Reserve and the current banking system in general for not quite the right reasons. Thus the Fed is a “private bank,” it does not put enough… Read More
Debate Analysis
Dan McCarthy at The American Conservative writes: …Romney, meanwhile, minimized the policy differences between himself and Obama: he won’t cut taxes on the rich; he says, “you can’t have a free market without regulation”; and he insists that his repeal-and-replace alternative to Obamacare won’t keep… Read More
Why Does the GOP Keep Nominating People Like Romney?
I discuss this and other issues in a conversation with Dan McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative .
Answering the Same Old Arguments Against Sound Money
My remarks at the Mises Institute ’s Mises Circle in Manhattan.
Social Media During Debate
The folks at The Bubble, our forthcoming documentary, are doing live social media during tonight’s debate. Like on Facebook and follow on Twitter . Hashtag #whatdebate.