I’m working on an obit now of John Kenneth Galbraith, who has died at the age of 97.. I’ll be respectful, but truthful. After all, he did oppose the war in Vietnam. However, he did believe communism to be the superior organization of society.
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Maybe. On behalf of the Free Enterprise Fund, Mr. Starr is challenging the burdensome and tyrannical Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Of course, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is an absolute monster given that it has the powers of subpoena and disciplinary action. Starr & Company are challenging the powers of this board as a violation of “the Constitution’s mandated separation of powers among the three branches of government.”
“It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment: and a utilitarian therefore must consider them as vices. But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions..... a Pandora’s box of other dangers, no less mischievous than alcoholism and morphinism.” Ludwig Von Mises, “Liberalism,” 1927 (From Wall Street Journal of April 28, 2006)
A colleague of mine recently e-mailed me about Exxon’s profits:
After spending 20 mins trying to log in (when did life becoming nothing but a series of log ins?) I finally got to the Wall Street Journal article everyone is pinging me about, in which Mary O’Grady quotes Mises. Indeed the article opens with the following Mises quote:
Here is a comment on the new premium tumbler that says: because it uses leather, we are supporting slavery of defenseless animals.
According to an article in Variety magazine, megastars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are among the possibilities for the lead roles in a new movie version of Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged. Says the article,
Economist and philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe made similar comments about the Social Security system. For Hoppe, subsidies for sickness or disability lead to more sickness and pain, discourage work, individual effort and solidarity and foster a hedonistic society whose members’ main goal is to live off of everyone else.
