All Posts Tagged With: "9/11"
Parasite Economics
Contemporary anti-market voices characterize market economies as “parasitic” and traders as “parasites”: “Experience has shown that capitalism is the real source of basic evils in society. . . . Social parasites suddenly emerged with billions. Thus, it became clear to all that U.S. capitalism was a big trap and suicide. As a result, the majority [...]
1Jun2002 | David M. Levy | 2 comments | ContinuedThe War on Charity
“Congress is going to rebuild Afghanistan for billions, and they can’t take care of 3200 people,” complained Kenneth Foster, husband of one of the September 11 victims, at a public hearing earlier this year. In his view, and that of many other victims’ families, who vigorously applauded his remarks, the September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund [...]
1Jun2002 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Return of Activist Government?
In the New York Times of December 13, 2001, John D. Donahue joins the crowd that is presently arguing—or hoping—that the events of September 11, 2001, have cleared a path for the “revival” of big, all-knowing government. I do not wish to argue, here, why that might be undesirable. I do contest Donahue’s historical construction [...]
1May2002 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica’s Worst Enemy
I know a woman in her mid-80s who’s doing quite well for herself. She maintains a house and large yard, cooks for her grandkids, and enjoys her bridge club. Yet, given the way our culture works, it’s not unthinkable that Big Brother might someday send her a .38 for her birthday and invite her to [...]
1Mar2002 | George F. Smith | 1 comment | ContinuedMaking Terrorists Pay
If there is one lesson the United States must teach after the September 11 atrocities, it is that terrorism does not pay. Washington should allow, indeed encourage, victims of terrorism to go after the assets of the perpetrators. A pregnant widow of one of the victims of the World Trade Center attack was the first [...]
1Feb2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s Unpatriotic to Raise Prices After a Disaster?
One issue that caused a minor controversy after the terrorist attacks on September 11 was so-called price gouging. On his popular TV show, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly made a big deal of it with Jennifer Granholm, attorney general of Michigan, and Dan Mogin, a consumer lawyer from California. O’Reilly accused the Sheraton Hotel at [...]
1Feb2002 | Ninos P. Malek | 0 comments | ContinuedSome Questions
I’m writing these words in the early-morning serenity of my home, two weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. All appears peaceful, fine, and as it was before September 11. My son, Thomas, is upstairs sleeping the sweet sleep of a child too young to comprehend what is happening. The world that he understands is [...]
1Jan2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedTerrorism Is Good for the Economy?
Following the disastrous attack on New York, Washington, and our country, the purveyors of economic quackery began spilling gallons of ink in describing how they think the tragedy will affect the U.S. economy. One of the most prominent views to emerge, and also the most wrongheaded, is the idea that the destruction of the World [...]
1Dec2001 | Roy Cordato | 1 comment | ContinuedNo Silver Lining
We often see such comments after a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake. I never expected to see it after the horrors of September 11. But there was Paul Krugman, Ph.D. in economics and a New York Times columnist, writing it on September 14 for all the world to see: Ghastly as it may seem to say [...]
1Nov2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThey’re Just Dying to Be Rescued
Karen Selick is an attorney and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright 2000. Belleville, Ontario, Canada—Why don’t abused women want to defend themselves? Three times within the past year, and many times previously, I have been consulted in matrimonial cases by women who have told credible and terrifying stories of violence, stalking, and death threats [...]
1Dec2000 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedJust Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection
Richard Stevens is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and author of Dial 911 and Die (Mazel Freedom Press, 1999). Underlying all “gun control” ideology is this one belief.” “Private citizens don’t need firearms because the police will protect them from crime.” That belief is both false and dangerous for two reasons. First, the police cannot [...]
1Apr2000 | Richard W. Stevens | 38 comments | Continued-
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