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A few years ago a House of Representatives Subcommittee on Publicity and Propaganda in the Executive Departments, under the chairmanship of Represe

There's no such thing as a free search. But there are a group of professionals out there driving the price as low as possible, and they certainly earn my admiration.

The incident points out another lesson in political science, namely, that the state never achieves complete ascendancy over society (if it did, society would disintegrate and the state would collapse from lack of nutrition), and that there are always critics and rebels.

When looking for a thorough and logically consistent analysis of broad market forces and the role of the Federal Reserve in promoting an unsustainable boom in long-term production, Tom Woods‘s Meltdown remains the best choice.

Within the space of days, we've been provided, courtesy of the Fed itself, with footage that perfectly distills the complete failure of Fed forecasting and planning, and audio that encapsulates splendidly the only thing that the Fed actually accomplishes: the destruction of money.

In the UK as well — thanks to nationalization, price controls, and government rationing of healthcare — thousands of people die needlessly every year because of shortages of kidney dialysis machines, pediatric intensive care units, pacemakers, and even x-ray machines. This is America's future, if "ObamaCare" becomes a reality.

Insufficiently educated in the history of economic thought, they do not realize that Keynesianism — down to the most technical details, like the concept of the foreign exchange multiplier — is mercantilism or, more precisely, John Lawism pure and simple.

The precept of methodological individualism has shown its usefulness in the explanation of the origin of money.

To make things even worse, the unintended adverse consequences of government "solutions" undermine the premier example of unintended positive consequences in society — the "invisible hand" of market mechanisms that arise from self-ownership and lack of coercion.

I wonder if Paul McCulley has ever entertained the idea that massive fiscal and monetary bailouts actually retard recovery?