[From The Life of Colonel David Crockett, compiled by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884). Included in Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina B. Greaves (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975).]
In the middle of his earnest if muddled article “Taking Back America from the Libertarians,” Patrick Deneen veers suddenly off course to perpetrate a vicious and gratuitous calumny against Ludwig von Mises, F.A.
The stock market rejoiced on Monday with stories such as this CNBC “breaking news” headline:
The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds.
But here’s the interesting thing: this isn’t actually “news.”
Many were justifiably outraged yet also puzzled at how the police officers on the scene could so callously ignore the dying pleas of George Floyd saying he couldn’t breathe.
