Dumb and Numbers

Mark Steyn writes about Obama’s budget fairytale and the “Buffet Rule”: If the alleged Sage of Omaha is as exercised about this as his public effusions would suggest, I’d be in favor of repealing the prohibition on Bills of Attainder, and the old boy could sleep easy at night. But instead every other American “millionaire” [...]

Hayek & Keynes Revisited

Posted this a while back in two parts, but it’s worth going back to: Part 1: Fear The Boom and Bust Part 2: Fight of the Century

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose Part V

Milton Friedman discussing Friedrich Hayek’s the Road To Serfdom back in 1994.  As relevant again today as ever. Part 1: Part 2: Part 2 is perhaps the more interesting of the two, especially around the 12 minute mark on.  Friedman points out that experience may be more important than the influences of books or television; [...]

Free To Choose Part 10: How To Stay Free

Milton Friedman on free markets, economics, and freedom. The last in the series, with some advice on how to avoid the road to serfdom. Though reading The Road To Serfdom might be a good way to learn how to avoid it.

Free To Choose Part 8: Who Protects The Worker?

Milton Friedman on economics, the free market, individual choice, and the labor market. One of the first things to consider is something that was mentioned waaay back here (on the old site): Minimum wages hurt the worker.  They protect politicians, who can say “I’m giving you a raise” while they spend employers’ money.  Except what’s [...]

Free To Choose Part 7: Who Protects The Consumer?

Milton Friedman on economics, the free market, consumer choice, and safety. The picture of the staggering amount of regulations cranked out by the federal government as of the 1970s is amazing.  Considering that they haven’t slowed down, it’s almost painful to imagine the number of laws you’re breaking right now due to regulations as interpretations [...]

Free To Choose Part 6: What’s Wrong With Our Schools

Milton Friedman on the application of free markets and individual choice to the school system. Note the responses from the American Federation of Teachers (union) president and the others who desire the current system to continue.  The current disaster is of course, for the children.  Anyone escaping crappy public schools would be bad, and making [...]

Free To Choose Part 5: Created Equal

Milton Friedman on economics, redistribution, the free market and economic equality. Note the exchanges at the end between Thomas Sowell and Frances Fox Piven.  Thomas Sowell being a wise, well-respected economist, and Frances Fox Piven, the mother of Cloward-Piven strategy, which seeks to overwhelm and collapse the state in order to make things “equal” for [...]

Occupy Wall Street – Summarizing Things in One Sign

Zombie’s second piece at PJ Tatler is “The entire Occupy Movement summarized in one sign“: And if anyone thinks this guy is a fake, Zombie has supporting documentation here, showing that this guy really is a leftist.  He’s not a clever Tea Party infiltrator.  He’s the real deal. Photoblogger El Marco has an excellent look [...]

Free to Choose Part 4: From Cradle to Grave

Milton Friedman, economics, and government.