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I don’t think I’ve pushed this before, but “Master Resource,” a new free market energy blog, is in full sw

John Maynard Keynes once wrote that "the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

From Individualism and Economic Order (ironically under copyright),

The discussions over IP awakened a memory of an old NPR segment.

The monetary central planners never stop thinking of new gimmics to manipulate the money supply, price inflation and interest rates.

I am hesitant to compliment Tucker’s A Book that Changes Everything, given that he generously over-praise

I have been out of academia and working for think tanks for a while now, and so I may have a better ear for the changing climate than those of you

Often we opponents of socialistic, legislatively-created, utilitarian-based, property-redistributing, artificial, arbitrary, inconsistent, irrational, innovation-hampering, monopolistic, anti-competitive, and wealth-destroying intellectual property laws are accused of hypocrisy when we “copyright” our articles and books.

He was, and is, but he is not alone.