Richard Ebeling
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EconomicsFeatured
If America Were Totalitarian, Where Would You Want to Live?
by Richard Ebeling September 29, 2022How free is America, really, today? What is the direction toward which we seem to be continuing to head?
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Those who value the free and prosperous society must continue to articulate the case for the limited government, free market system, even if it seems sometimes that few are listening.
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The laissez-faire variation on the liberal theme never really had a chance, because except for a small handful like Ludwig von Mises, it had few champions, even in the market-oriented liberal camp.
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EconomicsFeatured
Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks
by Richard Ebeling May 9, 2022Free markets, not government, plan for and adapt to the future.
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EconomicsFeatured
Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer
by Richard Ebeling April 26, 2022Our task is to do all in our power and ability to revive an understanding of and inspire a desire to preserve, restore, and extend the ideal and practice of the truly free society.
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EconomicsFeatured
Paternalists Plan a New International Political Consensus
by Richard Ebeling March 23, 2022In the midst of the various crises that are enveloping the world, the political paternalists keep dreaming their dreams of socially engineering a new, centrally planned world.
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For decades the social engineering economists have insisted that their cases for government intervention, regulation, and income redistribution were merely “pragmatic” proposals to overcome the inefficiencies and “failures” of the market economy.
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EconomicsFeatured
Government Planning Brings neither Freedom, Prosperity, nor Equality
by Richard Ebeling February 9, 2022Liberty is, once again, under attack by a new collectivist counter-revolution determined to bring down the remaining ideas and institutions of the free society.
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EconomicsFeatured
Civil Liberties, Economic Freedom, and Property Rights
by Richard Ebeling January 5, 2022Property rights and economic freedom are the key ingredient for promoting civil liberties and a free society.
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EconomicsFeatured
Remembering the Soviet Nightmare that Ended Thirty Years Ago
by Richard Ebeling January 4, 2022Socialism always fails – as the complete collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago perfectly illustrates.
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FeaturedPolitics
Biden’s $3.5 Trillion “Make Big Government Even Bigger” Plan
by Richard Ebeling October 12, 2021President Biden’s Build Back Better Plan will only serve to build up government power over its citizens to an even greater degree.
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EconomicsFeatured
Biden’s Demagoguery that Government Spending is Costless
by Richard Ebeling October 6, 2021Biden’s money printing spree enabled by the Federal Reserve will have drastic long-term consequences.
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American policy makers have learned nothing from twenty years of failure in Afghanistan, and have traded individual liberty for false promises of security.