Archive for David Smyth
Our School System: The Dream and the Reality
Mr. Smyth is a journalist and free-lance author in New Jersey. One night I had a dream. I dreamed that some of us got together in our small New Jersey town and abolished its public school system. We removed the public school system’s legal privileges, and ended its tax support. From then on, all schools [...]
1Nov1986 | David Smyth | 0 comments | ContinuedUntil Shrimp Learn to Whistle
Mr. Smyth is a journalist and free-lance author in Metuchen, New Jersey. Some things are so self-evident that they really require no proof. They are simply a matter of looking around you in your daily life to see how things work and how people act. For example, consider these questions, and answer them from your [...]
1Sep1983 | David Smyth | 0 comments | ContinuedCommanding the Tides
We do not expect the government to be able to repeal the laws of nature; why then do we expect it can repeal the laws of economics?
1Aug1958 | David Smyth | 0 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
