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Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2014

Saluting Our Past and Embracing Our Future

Posted with the kind permission of Lawrence W. Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). See the original …

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How to Lose a Constitution—Lessons from Roman History

Posted with the kind permission of Lawrence W. Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). "On Saturday, August …

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The new jihadist threat

First published at the Business Standard and posted here with the kind permission of the author. Across West Asia, the …

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What matters is income mobility not inequality

Posted here with the kind permission of the author. See the original article here… Support the Fraser Institute here… Given …

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Böhm-Bawerk: Austrian Economist Who Said “No” to Big Government

First published at EPICTiMES. We live at a time when politicians and bureaucrats only know one public policy: more and …

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130 environmentalist groups want to end “hegemonic capitalism;” blame it for climate change

First published at How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business and posted here with the …

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Thought to Ponder

My views on government spending can be summarized by the following parable. If you spend your own money on yourself, you are very concerned about how much is spent and how it is spent. If you spend your own money on someone else, you are still very much concerned about how much is spent, but somewhat less concerned about how it is spent. If you spend someone else’s money on yourself, you are not too concerned about how much is spent, but you are very concerned about how it is spent. However, if you spend someone else’s money on someone else, you are not very concerned about how much is spent or how it is spent.Milton Friedman
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