We Need Mencken Now
"Beyond his brilliant writing style, Mencken's great contribution was his courage to write what he thought."
"Beyond his brilliant writing style, Mencken's great contribution was his courage to write what he thought."
We don't need government to assist us. In fact, we don't want its "help." We only want the freedom to do our work and the freedom for you to assist us in it with an investment in the future.
By serving customers as an entrepreneur, or following in Murray's footsteps as a scholar and teacher. Austrian economics is the intellectual backbone for the freedom movement.
Your high-publicity stunts before Congress, at the National Academy of the Sciences, the IPCC, and in the press will put you directly in the crosshairs of just such a maniac, I fear, especially if you don't quit while you're ahead.For the sake of science, Dick, for the sake of collegiality, for your own sake, give it a rest. You know as well as I do that the issue isn't global warming. The issue is what side of the bread our butter is on.
We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible.
The Fed is there to print all the money the federal government will need. There is no limit on its power to do so. We aren't taxed. For that reason, people are not scandalized by the numbers or the corruption. We don't even call it that. There is nothing about the numbers that seems real.
So there you have it: a theory of causation (lack of regulation) and a proposed solution (more regulation). Are we supposed to believe that in a properly and full regulated world, there would be no unexpected accidents or any regretable malfunctions?
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.
The seemingly impressive Swedish boom will certainly be revealed as a fraud — just as the whole story of the success of the Swedish economic model is a fraud.