commercial purposes in the Seattle area, the 5th Street Theater is forced by labor union rules to pay excessively high wages ($98 per show) as compared with what they the now-defunct San Diego Symphony. Instead, they draw on overseas talent because European musicians have not priced themselves out of the market. American union
into global welfarism (nearly $100 billion in current dollars), they said, saved European economies after the Second World War. One reporter, Garrick Utley of NBC, would artificially support “full employment” policies. And since American labor union groups were intimately involved in choosing who got the money, the lion’s share
to the desires of special interest groups such as environmentalists, labor unions, and favor-seeking international corporations. But, it turns out, even the Italy’s Renato Ruggierio, whom the Clinton administration regards as a tool of the European Community, the U.S. will continue to disparage the institution that U.S.
the mass movement trying to prevent the U.S. from intervening in another horrific European war. Isolationism meant the desire to keep the troops out of harm’s way. But to use China as the preferred enemy in a renewed Cold War. It includes labor unions who want to stiff-arm American consumers into not buying Chinese products. It here and there who benefit. They go so far as to compare China to the old Soviet Union, as if our only option is a nuclear showdown, or, in the case of William
During the years of his private seminar, Mises tutored an entire generation of European intellectuals in economics and the social sciences. These men would later An experienced archivist, Karner has written widely on prison camps in the Soviet Union. He was the first Western academic to be granted complete access to the archive the Technical University of Berlin, where he also studied philosophy, law, and European intellectual history. A biography of this magnitude is a long-term endeavor,
greatest bloodbath—ostensibly to maintain the boundaries of an existing federal union, as if those boundaries possessed some sacred status. Wilson, on his own propelled the country into a grotesquely senseless, shockingly barbarous clash of European dynasties in which the United States had no substantial national interest.
that it was central to the war. After the South was conquered, the swollen Union Army was not dismantled but rather put to other purposes. Under the principle Its Carthaginian terms bred intense resentments, and virtually guaranteed another European-wide conflict in the future. Yet the allies continued to insist upon the
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