After the Obama administration bailed out General Motors by purchasing a 60.8% ownership share in the company for $49.5 billion, President Obama said, “We expect taxpayers will get back all the money my administration has invested in GM.” (I do like the way the president takes responsibility for the investment.) Now, the president’s administration has
All videos from January’s Mises Circle, “The Police State: Know It When You See It.” See also, “Whatever Happened to Peace Officers?” by Jeff Deist and “Mussolini’s Idea of the State and Its American Defenders” by Lew Rockwell.) )))
Mises Institute Associated Scholar (and author of The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture) Paul Cantor writes:
He’ll be there to discuss Abe Lincoln after The Daily Show savagely attacked Napolitano recently for this sort of thing:
Bruce Bartlett, who’s almost twice my age, and apparently had some sort of “important” job back when I was in grade school, says I’m “living in the past” for talking about the transcontinental railroad:
It’s not just the auto industries of Canada and the United States that are plodding along towards a slow demise. The auto industry in Australia will soon be a piece of history, according to Iain Marlow writing for The Globe and Mail.
Radicalizing Rawls: Global Justice and the Foundations of International Law.
Herbert Spencer was born into a nineteenth-century world where the traditional logic of imperialism interacted with new developments like the Industrial Revolution, and new ideas like free trade and liberalism that emerged out of the Enlightenment of the previous century. The key to understanding Spencer’s importance is to realize that he was a radical proponent of laissez faire, individualism, natural rights, and capitalism.
