Alabama Governor Bob Riley has become a paradigm of state interventionism and tax-and-spend policies. Historically, Governor Riley has carried out his big-government policies with the help of his attorney general, Troy King. Together they helped to expand the government’s control towards a police state. Recent events have disrupted the rather
“These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have.” New Rule: neomercantilists, neoconservatives, and statists are no longer allowed to call themselves “free marketers.” People who call themselves free marketers such as Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are the primary threat capitalism faces.
[See also [AuthorName]’s coda to this article: “More on the Expatriation Tax.” ] In the past, the government was forced to show a modicum of restraint with respect to levying taxes for fear that citizens would simply leave the country and move to a more favorable location. In fact, the threat of the citizenry emigrating en masse is arguably one of
I recently decided that I am going to pay for as many things as is practicable using only two-dollar bills. I will now attempt to explain my purely symbolic gesture and the reactions I have received so far. A few weeks ago I determined that I should be doing something to express my dissatisfaction with current monetary policy, and get people
“The scalper provides a type of scheduling insurance.” Dozens of people among the throngs of jubilant fans hold crudely made cardboard signs featuring the words “I Need Tickets.” Strangely, these people who, to an outsider, appear to be in desperate need of tickets for the big game, hold numerous tickets high above their head so everyone can see.
Students at Eastern Carolina University took advantage of a rare opportunity on 20 January. The campus received an uncharacteristically large amount of snowfall and the University was forced to cancel Tuesday’s classes. Students elected to head outdoors and recapture their early childhood by engaging in an old fashioned snowball fight. Reports
I have always liked the content found at The Motley Fool but today’s headline really made my day. The Daily Walk of Shame: The Fed “Much of the blame for our economic crisis can be pinned on the monetary policies. Even worse, the “cure” for an ailing economy always seems strikingly similar to what caused the problems to begin with, at least
In the current economy, most people are trying to make cuts in their home budgets. One of the first places frugal Americans begin is with restaurant expenditures. Many people have become almost completely dependent upon others to prepare all of their meals. If you are looking to save some cash and consider yourself helpless in the kitchen there is
There is quite a mystery surrounding the $81.5 million donated to fifteen colleges by a donor insisting upon complete anonymity. This mysterious donor has insisted that the recipient schools make no attempt to ascertain her identity. Recently, I was listening to an NPR interview on the subject. In the interview the “expert,” Melissa Berman,
I am certain that everyone watching Bernanke’s testimony on Capitol Hill is as concerned for Chairman Bernanke’s health as I am. It seems that our reluctant savior has a very severe case of Alzheimer’s. Thus far the substance of Dr. Bernanke’s testimony can be summarized by his most frequent quote “I do not recollect.” No one really expects this
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.