Richard Ebeling
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GovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Soviet Union Is Gone, but the Young Yearn for Socialism
by Richard Ebeling August 18, 2021It is as if the last hundred years of the socialist chamber of horrors has practically never happened.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
A Deficit of Clear Thinking About Loss of Freedom
by Richard Ebeling August 10, 2021Government budget deficits continue on America’s fiscal horizon as far as the eye can see, but they are merely symptoms of a deeper deficit that is lacking in clear thinking on the underlying increases in the size and scope of government.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Edwin Cannan: An Economist Who Protested against Big Government
by Richard Ebeling August 2, 2021Unfortunately, numerous economic fallacies and misconceptions seem to never die; they just return in slightly different forms at later dates.
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Budgets/TaxesConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
More Government Debt as Far as the Fiscal Eye Can See
by Richard Ebeling July 28, 2021The U.S. government will, again, face an official debt limit starting on August 1, 2021, unless Congress once more raises the limit on what Uncle Sam can borrow.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Appreciating F. A. Hayek’s Insights on Money and the Business Cycle
by Richard Ebeling July 13, 2021Fears are once again afoot that a new period of rising price inflation is upon us, and with justifiable cause.
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ConstitutionEducationGovernmentPolitics
“Race Manners” Reinforce a Harmful Race Conscious
by Richard Ebeling July 7, 2021Over the last year, unmarked graves of hundreds of children of indigenous tribes have been uncovered in various locations in Canada.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
The Political Paternalists Take Aim at Milton Friedman
by Richard Ebeling June 24, 2021Being branded by identity politics warriors and systemic racism theorists as a “racist” or a “sexist” is a sure-fire way to have the cancel culture crusaders declare you beyond the pale.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity
by Richard Ebeling June 14, 2021Free men in free markets would then be at liberty to improve their conditions without the disrupting and distorting hand of political power and special interest.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Jacques Novicow, Sociologist of Peace and Freedom
by Richard Ebeling June 4, 2021Wars have been, perhaps, the worst man made plague for all of recorded history, causing untold numbers of deaths and massive physical destruction.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Inflation Is a Dangerous Way to Get Rid of Debt Burdens
by Richard Ebeling June 1, 2021Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2022, will include a budget deficit of $1.6 trillion, or almost one-third of planned government spending.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Monetary Inflation’s Game of Hide-and-Seek
by Richard Ebeling May 18, 2021The recently reported rise in the Consumer Price Index in April of this year to an annualized rate of 4.2 percent has set off alarm bells about the possible danger of serious and rising price inflation looking to the months ahead.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Frank Knight and the Place of Principles in Economics and Politics
by Richard Ebeling May 13, 2021American politics is currently based on three premises: power, pragmatism, and plunder.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Biden’s Agenda of “Democratic” Paternalism and Planning
by Richard Ebeling May 3, 2021Joe Biden has spent his first 100 days spending trillions of dollars, and in his address before Congress last week, he announced that he wants to spend a lot more.