Higgs on Crisis & Leviathan
Your lecture of the week this week is a wonderful critique of government’s ratchet effect in times of crisis. Robert Higgs is a powerhouse at cutting through the bullshit…
The ACA
“C” referring here to Coffee. Eric Peters explains why philosophically, the fiat amounts to little more than theft. This one is a truthiness overload: If government – using its magical powers – can make health care “affordable” why not make everything people need (and hell, everything they want) affordable? It’s a little mean-spirited to lower…
DetailsALERT X 3 – Fukushima, FCC Overreach, Government Plants
Three very large news items have broken this week that have very obviously been going on for a long time: Fukushima radiation is rapidly approaching our coast. Government monitors will be put in newsrooms across the country. The O Admin is backing away from the story now, meaning this will be done covertly rather than…
DetailsRe-thinking “This Time It’s Different”
If you spend much time reading economic debates, you have surely run across the furor and satisfaction resulting from the works of Keynesians Reinhart & Rogoff, about public debt and its affects on the growth and stability of nations. The researchers showed many things about debt causing signifiant threat to the well-being od the citizens…
DetailsLibertarians Need God
Libertarianism needs more that “freedom” to survive. The culture needs an understanding that can only be found beyond the here and now, or the project will fail. Your lecture of the week expounds this idea, explaining why GOd is essential to any view that government shouldn’t control it all…