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James Alexander Webb

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Jim Webb writes from the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, has a background that includes: math teacher, real estate sales, real estate development, and environmental engineering. Has a B.S. in Economics from University of Maryland with graduate studies in Monetary Economics at the American University in Washington D.C. which included study under Robert D. Auerbach author of Deception and Abuse at the Fed. He was chapter president of Society for Rational Individualism at the U. of Md. 1968-69 and by then had discovered Austrian Economics and had the fortune to attend some of Walter Block’s late night sessions with Murray Rothbard on W. 88th St. He plays flute in a Celtic band. He has posted manuscripts on economics at depictonomics.com.

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It's Not All Trump: Congress Is a Disaster Too

Blog10/27/2018

Congress has no small part in the endless cycle of debt, spending, and rising bureaucratic power.

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Daylight Saving Time: A Government Annoyance

Big GovernmentU.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

03/11/2016Mises Wire
Is there anything the state won't micromanage? Back in the 1970s, the Feds passed "emergency" legislation imposing daylight saving time. We're still living with this pointless and annoying mandate today.
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