All Posts Tagged With: "Howard Baetjer"

The Fatal Conceit

The politicians are confident that they can wisely spend trillions of your dollars. The arrogance of the political class is stunning.

17Jun2009 | John Stossel | 9 comments | Continued

How Rapidly Should the Money Supply Grow?

I would like to make one correction to Howard Baetjer’s article “Inflation 101” (September). The author suggests that inflation results when the money supply expands faster than the rate at which goods and services are produced. The author correctly points out that this expansion of the money supply will lead to rising prices. But inflation [...]

22Jan2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

Were Missionaries Like Psychiatrists?
To the Editor:
People have misunderstood and maligned Christians for two millennia, but goodness, must Dr. Szasz compare us to coercive quacks? He writes in The Freeman’s July/August 2007 issue: “Consider this parallel between psychiatry and missionary Christianity. The heathen savage does not suffer from lack of insight into the divinity of Jesus, [...]

1Nov2007 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | Continued