Published by the Foundation for Economic Education
November 20, 2009 | Subscribe via RSS
“The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to offer up to 20 more weeks of unemployment benefits to those who have been out of work a long time, after weeks of delay in which hundreds of thousands of Americans exhausted their government aid.” (New York Times, Thursday)
Government likes to break people’s knee caps then benevolently hand out crutches.
FEE Timely Classic
“Unemployment and Liberty” by Benjamin Zycher
In Print:
Barack Obama changed the rules when he intervened in the bankruptcies of GM and Chysler. There's no telling what the consequences will be for the economy. Also in this issue: A Nobel Prize we can rejoice over, a clunker of a government program, and a depression you never heard of.
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by Richard A. Epstein
by Bruce Yandle
by Paul Armentano
by Tyler Watts
by John Stossel
by Thomas Szasz
by Robert Higgs
by Art Carden
Reviewed by William L. Anderson
Reviewed by John Tamny
Comment by Mike Van Winkle on 5 November 2009:
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