Jacques Chirac seems to be on the verge of waging all out war against the gravest possible threat to his country: ultra-liberalism (hint: that’s what Misesians favor). He has announced that ultra-liberalism is the “communism of our time” because it poses a threat the Euro social model in which politicians and bureacrats run people’s lives.
[This article appeared in the New Individualist Review, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 1964, pp. 29-36, and is reprinted here as a prescient look at the errors of the old conservative critique of libertarianism and conservatism’s vulnerability to the statist temptation.]
At this site, the SEC seeks public comment on the occasion of the first full year in which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been in effect. As the notice says, comments are solicited from companies subject to the Act, auditors, investors, and members of the public. The URL was given in this op ed in the Wall Street Journal (apologies to those lacking subscriptions to wsj.com) by SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson.
Thank you David at Cantillon’s Paradise for the plug for Mises University, which all students interested in Austrian Economics should indeed attend.
Our times are much like the 1930s, when it was widely assumed that there are only two viable ideological positions: communism or fascism. Liberalism of the old school was considered to be a failure, and not even worth considering.
Kyle Markley obtained press credentials as a blogger and ask the Treasury Secretary the unaskable question: why not make Social Security voluntary and otherwise let people opt out? Secretary Snow’s reaction: shock! shock! If you have followed Markley’s blog over the last year, you know that he wanted very badly to favor Bush’s SocSec plan but has, step-by-step, emerged as a major critic. For starters, there is no plan...
