All Posts Tagged With: "federal government"
Stop the Bad Guys
It’s not too much of a simplification to say that modern American conservatives believe the national government to be ignorant, bumbling, and corrupt when it meddles in the U.S. economy, but sagacious, sure-footed, and righteous when it meddles in foreign-government affairs. Nor are the boundaries of acceptable simplification breached by saying that modern American “liberals” [...]
25May2011 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 19 comments | ContinuedComparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession
President Obama has often remarked that the Great Recession (2008–10) is the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It’s interesting to study the many parallels between the Great Recession and the Great Depression. Causation. The main causes of both crises lie in actions of the federal government. In the case of the Great Depression, [...]
20May2010 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 47 comments | ContinuedOpponents of the "Crown Jewel"
There was a time when self-reliance wasn’t such a tough sell. Today, however, the thought of dismantling Social Security strikes most as somehow un-American. It is, after all, the “cornerstone of the New Deal.” It saved the poor and elderly from indigence and provided dignity in a monthly paycheck. Legend has it that 70 years [...]
1Sep2005 | Jude Blanchette | 1 comment | ContinuedA New Old American Concept of Political Liberty
It is odd that a libertarian should have a conception of political liberty at all. Isn’t it the case that there is a permanent war between freedom and politics? Surely any reduction in the political sphere produces a concomitant increase in individual liberty. Has not choice in the market, characterized by personal autonomy and spontaneity, [...]
1Mar2002 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Civil War’s Tragic Legacy
The Civil War produced at least two important outcomes. First, although it was not President Lincoln’s intent, it freed slaves in the Confederate States. Second, it settled the question of whether states could secede from the Union. The causes of and the issues surrounding America’s most costly war in terms of battlefield casualties are still [...]
1Jan1999 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedNonessential Government
Mr. Bandow, this month’s guest editor, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). You might not have noticed, but the federal government closed down a while back. The sky didn’t fall. The world didn’t end. People didn’t die in the streets. In [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedLetters
Unquestionably, one of the most effective forms of communication is a thoughtful letter written to a person in answer to his own question. The staff members of the Foundation for Economic Education write thousands of such letters each year. Some of these are, in effect, short articles on “general interest” subjects not fully covered in [...]
1May1955 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 1 comment | Continued-
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