Tag: Capitalism
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Burton Folsom, writer on capitalism, to speak in Wichita
Here’s a message from AFP-Kansas and the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy. Please join Americans for Prosperity-Kansas and the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy for a policy luncheon in Wichita next week, featuring noted author Burton Folsom Thursday, March 26, 12 p.m. Wichita Country Club, 8501 East 13th Street The luncheon costs $25…
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Articles of Interest
American Capitalism, Kansas budget, Phill Kline, corn.
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Some misunderstand what they criticize …
But it doesn’t stop them. Over at the Kansas Jackass blog, it appears there’s been a discussion about libertarianism and how it doesn’t work. I think however, that the Jackass and some of his sycophants are misinformed about a few things.
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Financial crisis caused by government
Did the “excesses” of capitalism cause the current financial crisis? First, we really don’t have capitalism in the United States, at least not any reasonable semblance of laissez faire capitalism, as explained in my post The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisis, based on the work of Professor George Reisman.
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Leave the New Deal in the history books
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal contains an editorial (Leave the New Deal in the History Books) that contains a summary of the effect of the New Deal.
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The bailout reader
The events taking place in the financial market offer an illustration of the soundness of the Austrian theory of money, banking, and credit cycles, and Mises.org, which has long warned of precisely the scenario playing itself out today, is your source not only for analysis of these events but also the economic theory that helps…
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Global warming rope-a-dope
Walter Williams reports that the science behind global warming is not as solid as alarmists and zealots present it to be.
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I, Pencil turns 50!
The Foundation for Economic Education has a new version of I, Pencil to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Click here to view the announcement and read this short book.
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Jeff Fluhr decided
A few weeks ago in the post Jeff Fluhr’s Decision I wrote that the the new president of the Wichita Downtown Development Corporation had a choice to make: “Mr. Fluhr needs to decide if he’s on the side of open and transparent government, or whether he’s in favor of crony capitalism and the good ol’…