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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

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...The problem has been developing for many years: a sort of economic alcoholism in which society has depended upon government to solve all its problems. Governments have promised to do away with unemployment, to eradicate poverty, to mitigate the pain of old age and sickness, even to ease the consequences of banking and business mistakes. Such irresistible promises! It was exactly what everyone wanted. We became economic alcoholics, dependent on government, and have had no concept of who will pay the price for this happy addiction. (from a speech at Athens College in 1984)Antony Fisher
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.Milton Friedman
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