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The New Deal for the Youth?
“It’s time for Canada to offer a new deal to its young people.” That’s how the uber-liberal state worshippers at the Broadbent Institute introduced a new plan to fix the Great North’s ailing economy...
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How the Food Police Undermine Human Intentionality
One of the key things that separates humans from animals is the ability to make plans and then act on those plans. That humans have intentions is the basis of all morality, economics, and law. As such,...
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A Lifeboat for Jerome Murdough
In his Ethics of Liberty, libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard makes short work of popularly employed “lifeboat situations.” Devising untenable situations to trip up ideologues is a common tactic of...
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The New Inquisition
There have always been things that “society” at large, meaning governmental authorities with the power to enforce their ideas, have considered more important than the individual liberty of the...
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How the Drug War Failed Philip Seymour Hoffman
Reprinted from Mises.org Now that sufficient time has passed since the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, it is time to assess if there is anything positive that we can learn from this tragic and...
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Re: Jeremy Stein to Resign From Fed Board to Return to Harvard Now, no one would ever call Harvard professor Jeremy Stein an Austrian school economist, so it is illuminating how even his modest...
View ArticleMy letter to the NY Times re: Ignoring the elephant in the room
Re: Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality Dear Sirs: The latest assault on economic science is led by the usual suspects–politicians, labor unions, intellectuals, and not-for-profit...
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Let a Thousand Home Businesses Bloom
Reprinted from FEE.org Imagine you’re out of work. But you’ve got capital in your talents, your home, and your family and friends. You might try to start a microbusiness at home to earn a little extra...
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The Food Police Turn to the Bottle
Continuing my “meddling bureaucrats trying to tell us what to eat” series, I recently discovered that the FDA is planning to start requiring nutrition labels on alcoholic beverages. Apparently they are...
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The Obsession With Flight 370
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that I am insensitive to the fate of the 239 persons aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and to their families and friends, let me...
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The IMF is Dead Wrong on Low Interest Rates
In its just-published World Economic Outlook the IMF trumpets the view that the real level of equilibrium interest rates worldwide has declined substantially since the 1980s and is now in slightly...
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Re: US, Japan Fail to Clinch Trade Deal Dear Sirs: One of the great economic fallacies of our time is that free trade is beneficial to a country only if its trading partner also adopts free trade....
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Are Foreign Workers Stealing Canadian Jobs?
As nations compete to win the global talent race, the benefits of high skilled immigration seem clear to policy makers and leaders in Canada. However, when it comes to low skilled immigration, much...
View ArticleAchieving the betterment of labor without government coercion
In Florida Tomato Fields, a Penny Buys Progress Florida tomato field workers toil under harsh conditions for low pay. It seemed that the tomato growers could dictate whatever labor terms they chose,...
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Will Facebook Bring Down the Government?
Reprinted from GaryNorth.com I am going to ask a rhetorical question. When was the last time you saw a positive political cartoon for Obama? It is not just Obama’s problem. How many positive cartoons...
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Some Basics of State Domination and Public Submission
Reprinted from Independent.org Familiarity may indeed, as the saying goes, breed contempt, but it also breeds a sort of somnolence. People who have never known anything other than a certain state of...
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Technology Against the State
One of the first proverbs of the Chinese essay Thirty-Six Stratagems is “kill with a borrowed sword.” It means you should attack an enemy using their own strength against them. Such a tactic has the...
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How Regulated is Canadian Agriculture?
The 2014 Farm Bill has been passed. While some are complaining that the newest iteration of the Bill did not retain enough of the provisions from the previous, 2008 version, some are claiming that even...
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The Truth in Non-Intellectuals
According to a new poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, average Americans are becoming increasingly wary of Uncle Sam’s prominent role in global affairs. Almost half of those...
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Review: The Rule of Nobody
In his new book The Rule of Nobody, author Philip K. Howard argues that a relentless piling up of laws and regulations has made our government inhuman, inefficient, and incapable of fulfilling its core...
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