Listen, YAF
[First published in the Libertarian Forum, August 15, 1969.]
Who Killed the Constitution?
The question posed by the title of this book raises a further question, as the authors are well aware. If the Constitution is indeed dead, why does this matter? American conservatives have in past days been accused of “Constitution worship”: why should we care whether actions of the government conform to this particular legal document?
Regular Folks Who Hate War
What Kauffman has done here is more than merely sketch a history, though it is wonderful and detailed history. He has fashioned a new way to look at the makeup of the politics of war. I found it interesting that during the 1990s, it was the Republicans who emerged as the anti-nation-building party as the Democrats embraced their Wilsonian heritage. After 9-11, the roles switched yet again, and today the Republicans are guilty of trafficking in the worst forms of jingoism.
Anti-Obamanomics: Why Everyone Should Be in Favor of Reducing Taxes on the “Rich”
What Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have in common is the conviction that prosperity can be achieved by consuming the means of production. But capital accumulation and economic progress depend on saving and innovation and these in turn depend on the freedom to make high profits and accumulate great wealth.
Is Gold Money?
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Is gold money? Many would say so, and a web search returns tens of thousands of additional affirmative responses. If you want to start a fight with a gold bug, take the opposite view.
But is it so?
America’s Economic Myths
Mainstream economists and so-called experts have filled the minds of most Americans with many economic myths that are constantly reinforced by the media and repeated on the streets. These myths are erroneous at best, sometimes based on half truths. The majority of them are just false. We will examine the most common ones and proceed to explain the reality behind these myths.
Prudence or Principle? A Critique of Carpenter
[Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America. By Ted Galen Carpenter. Cato Institute, 2008. Xi + 258 pages.]
Invade the world: check
Murray Rothbard used to joke that the United States should just get it over with and invade the whole world. It seems like the US has already done so. See the map. Just a few more countries to go, and troops will be everywhere on the whole planet.
Fannie, Freddie Failure Would Be World ‘Catastrophe’
Bloomberg reports that a former central banker with the Bank of China has made some dire statements about the GSEs:
BEIJING -- A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China’s central bank.
Disarm: The Lesson of the Georgia Fiasco
George Bush, with the clock ticking down the last months of his presidency, nearly started yet another war that might have escalated in the manner of World War I: a diplomatic failure backed by arms that resulted in a superpower clash.
It is a wonder that the world has survived his “war on terror,” which turned out to be a war on American liberty and anyone in the world who got on his nerves. His confrontation with Russia in defense of a belligerent little client state of the United States could have sealed his fate and ours too.
