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Below you'll find a list of all posts from October, 2015

Great National Purposes Means Less Freedom

Executive Summary: This September 2015 marks seventy-five years since the end of the Second World War. In commenting on this …

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Putin’s nationalist turn

Putin’s latest global moves should be seen in the context of a possible ouster from power back home With the …

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How to avoid bad decisions in business

Bad decisions happen. Resources are invested in new products that flop. Wrong people—underperformers—get hired and promoted. Mergers end up diluting …

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Freedom and Government Part II

INTRODUCTION During the early part of the decade of the 1980’s, I wrote a series of articles entitled “Freedom and …

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Freedom and Government Part I

INTRODUCTION During the early part of the decade of the 1980’s, I wrote a series of articles entitled “Freedom and …

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Worried about health care. Canadians are.

"A recent EKOS opinion poll summarized the palpable dissatisfaction with Canada’s health-care system rather well in its title, “Canadians Worried …

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Video: Professor Joseph Salerno on Money and the State

On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Dr. Salerno spoke to a to a full house at The auditorium at The Harry …

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Richard Ebeling’s new book, Monetary Central Planning and the State released

For over a decade now, the American economy has been on a rollercoaster — an economic boom between 2003 and …

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Crony Capitalism The Cause of Society’s Problems

Executive Summary Critics of capitalism constantly insist on the “failure” of the free market, from the news pundits to the …

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There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent -- William Graham Sumner's famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged -- but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty. The second seeks equality of outcome and is entirely antithetical to liberty.Milton Friedman
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