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Again, the question libertarians can’t answer
This is getting quite a bit of play. Another statist writer who has taken it up is E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post, whom I regard as an utterly…
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American academic (born 1972)
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“Well, if libertarianism is so good….”
Tom Woods smacks down a Salon writer who claims to have posed “the question libertarians can’t answer.”
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Key books to read
Tom Woods provides here a good list of the books you need to read if you want to understand economics and the impact of government intervention.
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Placing too much faith in the Fed?
The headline for James C. Cooper?s latest Business Week column proclaims: ?Inflation? Not to Worry.? The writer presumably bases that assessment on Cooper?s assessment of the Federal Reserve?s ability to…
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If you?ve read Thomas Woods? latest book ?
? about the causes of the financial meltdown, these headlines in the latest Business Week might give you pause: The Fed?s Tricky Balancing Act (with the article under a different…
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The Fed?s role
James Cooper explains in the latest Business Week that it?s hard to predict when the Federal Reserve will turn off the money spigots. If that doesn?t worry you, you might…
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The Left’s great brainpower at work
Ever since the economic implosion began (and actually before it began), a few economists explained what what happening and why through the Austrian theory of the business cycle. In a…
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Best president of the 20th century
Tom Woods argues in this essay that it was Warren Harding. Of course, he’s derided by leftist pseudo-intellectuals as a “do nothing” failure, but doing nothing during the 1920-21 recession…
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If you think the stimulus package is bad …
… a graphic in the new Atlantic might raise your eyebrows. It focuses on the role of the Federal Reserve. For more on the Fed’s contribution to our current economic…
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What caused our economic meltdown?
You’ll not be surprised to learn that free-market thinker Thomas Woods rejects the arguments emanating from the Left that suggest unfettered markets created our current economic woes. But you might…
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Central banking and the boom-bust cycle
Tom Woods does an excellent job of explaining the connection here. A smart-aleck line that opponents of gold use is that it’s wasteful to devote resources to digging gold out…
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Yes, it’s tooth fairy economics
Tom Woods, author of the new book Meltdown (Regnery Publishing) contends here that the Obama economic program is tooth fairy economics. He refutes the Keynesian argument that during a recession,…