Did Small Government Cause Our Current Problems?
This faith in the regulators is touching, to be sure, but it is also extremely naïve. We now have miles of regulations on the books and legions of regulators at work in scores of government agencies.
Keynesianism Loves the Total State
J.M. Keynes’s Famous Foreword to the 1936 German Edition of the General Theory
Historians write about economics with a fearful and trembling hand, but economists brashly and cheerfully tackle historical enterprises as if they enjoyed some special commissioned prerogative. What follows this brief introductory material is not an expository essay but a document for all to examine: economists, historians, and the general reader alike.
State Interference
I desire, in this paper, to give an explanation and justification of extreme prejudice against State interference, and I wish to begin with a statement from history of the effect upon the individual of various forms of the State.
Something to Chew On
I’m no Crunchy Con, but I confess to being sympathetic to the organic food movement in the United States. Although I do not always buy organic, I am glad that the market caters to the segment of the population that does. Locally-grown and otherwise farm fresh meat, vegetables, milk, and eggs often taste better and are healthier than the output of the mega-farm operations in other parts of the country, although you pay a premium for them.
Paul Krugman’s Identity Crisis
In 2009, Krugman stated that “deficits saved the world.” However, in 2003, when Alan Greenspan and the Bush administration were destroying this country’s balance sheet, Krugman was scared to death about inflation.
Want to Shrink the Economy? Limit the Labor Force
To help workers get new jobs, Thom Hartmann recommends forcibly limiting individuals’ entry into the market, and killing off future productivity — new wealth and new jobs, etc. He thinks we can create jobs by killing off jobs.
Rothbard Vindicated
“The Depression was the first time in the history of the U.S. that wages did not fall during a period of significant deflation.” –UCLA economist Lee E. Ohanian
Equality
The assertion that all men are equal is perhaps the purest falsehood in dogma that was ever put into human language; five minutes’ observation of facts will show that men are unequal through a very wide range of variation.
End the Fed Promotion
American Banking News is not where I would expect to see a promotion of Ron Paul’s new book, but there it is. And also this.
Inflation’s Moral Cost
The City Journal runs a wonderful piece on inflation’s moral cost by Theodore Dalrymple:
