All Posts Tagged With: "nationalization"
Gaining a Nation, Losing the Republic: Reconstruction, 1863–1877
A dead president, carpetbaggers, scalawags, burning crosses, white hoods, an occupied South, Boss Tweed, Thomas Nast cartoons, the New York Democratic machine, and an imprisoned Jefferson Davis—all provide vivid images of the dozen years following the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s forces at Appomattox in April 1865. As every historian knows, often to his chagrin, [...]
23Mar2011 | Bradley J. Birzer | 7 comments | ContinuedToo Big to Fail
“Once you lose your freedom to fail, you also lose your freedom to succeed and you cease to be a free society.” —U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas In March 2008 the investment banking firm Bear Sterns failed and the federal government quickly stepped in. The public was inundated with the phrase “too big to fail” [...]
2Mar2009 | Michael Heberling | 8 comments | ContinuedPrivatize the Banks!
Rather than focusing on ways in which we can further involve the government in the financial system, we need to find ways to extricate banks from government’s deadly embrace. Banks, at least the behemoths, were public-private partnerships before the crisis. Deposit insurance, access to the Fed’s lending, and the implicit (now explicit) government guarantee for [...]
25Feb2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNationalization of the Mortgage Market
Breaking down the mortgage market breakdown and how it’s all the government’s fault.
1Dec2008 | Robert P. Murphy | 7 comments | ContinuedEurope: Still a Laggard Economy
There have been increasing signs of optimism from European economy watchers. After some years in the doldrums, with slow growth and rising unemployment, things appear to be looking up: labor markets are more efficient; growth was good for 2006; and the euro is doing well against the dollar after years of weakness following its inception [...]
1Mar2007 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedTruman’s Attempt to Seize the Steel Industry
In U.S. history many of the most drastic incursions on private property rights have sprung from the conjunction of a threatened work stoppage, owing to a union-management dispute, and the government’s desire to expedite a war-production program. Such a conjunction underlay the government’s nationalization of the railroads, the telegraph lines, and the Smith & Wesson [...]
1Mar2004 | Robert Higgs | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Creed of a Conservative
Mr. DeArmond, writer and business consultant on personnel training, is a contributor to numerous periodicals and the author of books such as Executive Thinking and Action and How To Sell and Unsell Ideas. For five years he was Associate Editor of Nation’s Business, under Merle Thorpe’s editorship. Merle Thorpe —a positive force for the free [...]
1Sep1956 | Fred DeArmond | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Collectivist Menace
Mr. Jebb is a British educator, editor, and journalist.The most potent factor in the growth of collectivism is the tendency of all governments to increase the area of their power. It is their besetting sin. In Britain three forces have contributed in varying degrees to this growth: trade-unionism, the Labour Party, and academic Socialism. The [...]
1Aug1956 | Reginald Jebb | 0 comments | ContinuedA New Scheme
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. A new scheme is afoot by which the people of the United States—rich and poor alike are likely to become trapped into financing national socialism abroad. This is the pattern: It all starts innocently enough. Private investors here would gladly pour [...]
1Feb1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Railroads Of France
Mr. Rothbard is a free-lance writer and has taught economies at The City College of New York. Ever since railroads were established by private enterprise, they have been a favorite candidate for nationalization. France offers a typical story of government operation of the railroads. France took its first halting step toward nationalization of railways in [...]
1Sep1955 | Murray N. Rothbard | 0 comments | Continued-
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