French libertarian, François-René Rideau (who apparently runs Bastiat.org ) offers advice on his blog for communicating monetary economics to cute young actresses: In a bus to NYC early in January 2005, I meet this gorgeous girl who is reading a course in Economics. The textbook is open on a praise of the Fed and its role in regulating the
Dear President Harter, I should like to include myself among those who have come to the defense of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe. If the freedom to teach is not as important as the freedom to learn, then there is little hope for the university as a place of dialogue and debate, where serious issues may be considered and scholarship pursued. These
Dear Dr. Alden and Dr. Robins: Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s exceptional erudition, scholarship, and intelligence are a matter of public record, and have been for years. He is one of the very few academics of whom it can be said that his thinking has changed lives (including the lives of readers whom he has never even met) for the good. Those of us around
There’s no point in writing up another article on Larry Kudlow’s recent analysis of Bush’s proposed budget, since my points would be the same as the last time I did it. As before, there is the trick of removing big-ticket items in order to make the rate of growth of everything else low: Beyond this important threshold, Bush deserves credit for his
Word has been spreading lately that the Bush Administration is planning to tax all life insurance death benefits. Although he would probably like to, the proposal I have seen indicates that only certain narrow life insurance transactions would be taxed. This is contrary to the administration’s rhetoric, and a new tax of any sort is always harmful,
I found a humorous article on MSN Money entitled “ The 9 weirdest tax write-offs .” It will get your creative juices flowing on ways to minimize taxes as we enter the tax season. My favorite quote from the article (on an interesting approach to depreciation deductions) is: Then there was the client who approached Manhattan CPA Marc Albaum about a
Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV , from The Rebel Yell. This is a particularly instructive--and scary--article. Finally, the name of the student who accused Hoppe, Michael Knight, is revealed. Some of his comments are really a sad statement on the egalitarian, entitlement mentality of today’s brainwashed crop of sniveling, totalitarian-minded
There’s something strange about this article in the Washington Times , linked by FEE this morning. It has the promising title of “Tax Burden Shift Seen as Lopsided” and it does complain that the rich are paying too much: good point. But the substance of the quotes from DC conservatives is not that the rich are overpaying but rather that the poor
For all those who have followed the Hoppe controversy, it is a good time to listen to his complete lecture on “ Time Preference and Its Implications “ delivered at the Mises University. It is thorough, brilliant, innovative, and even funny: clearly a danger to conventional ways of thinking. Here are many more Hoppe lectures
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