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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Bankruptcy of Conservative Political Paternalism
by Richard Ebeling February 17, 2021Political paternalists presume to know better than each one of us how we should live our lives, and want to use the power of government to impose their visions on the rest of us
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In spite of the declared “independence” of the Federal Reserve from the political control of either Congress or the White House, America’s central bank is a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible for setting monetary policy.
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FeaturedGovernmentLiberty
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2020Coronavirus is causing a fundamental shift in the way Americans live their lives. The question is: what comes next?
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
Business Ethics and Morality of the Marketplace
by Richard Ebeling November 20, 2019Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button.
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Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.
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FeaturedGovernment
Classical Liberalism and the Limits to Compromise
by Richard Ebeling January 7, 2019The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions.
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EconomicsGovernment
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism
by Richard Ebeling August 14, 2018After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyInternet/Telecom
The Hidden War: Trump’s Battle Against Regulation
by Liam Sigler July 25, 2018Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.”
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Crony Capitalism: Banks Make Money By ‘Making Money’
by Darren Brady Nelson May 29, 2018When will Paul Krugman adapt to reality?
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Economics
Reasons for Anti-Capitalism: Ignorance, Arrogance, and Envy
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2018Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed?
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLibertyPolitics
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 2
by Richard Ebeling November 13, 2017The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLibertyPolitics
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 1
by Richard Ebeling November 13, 2017One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and impact of “capitalism” on society.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
Free Markets, Not Government, Improve Race Relations
by Richard Ebeling September 5, 2017Politically we seem to be living in some trying times.