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Friedrich von Hayek: Nazism is Socialism

October 21, 2009

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The following article is likely hard to find; so I think it is good to post it here.  From BrookesNews.Com: Nazism is Socialism* Friedrich August von Hayek BrookesNews.Com Monday 19 October 2009 Published in the spring of 1933 Incomprehensible as the recent events in Germany must seem to anyone who has known that country chiefly […]

The not so efficient market

September 26, 2009

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Here’s an illuminating BrookesNews article on market crashes and efficiency reproduced below: Stock market crashes and market efficiency Gerard Jackson BrookesNews.Com Monday 21 September 2009 The share market crashes that reverberated around the world confirmed the prejudices of many (some of whom are paid to know better) as to the irrationally of markets. There was […]

A quick thought on libertarianism

June 24, 2009

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I’ve become increasingly libertarian in the past five years, though I am still socially conservative.  Sometimes I hear the platitude that libertarians are “socially liberal and economically conservative.”  Now, no doubt many of today’s libertarians do describe themselves in this way; but this platitude implies that libertarianism is necessarily socially liberal.  Is it the case? I […]

Harvard Law student castigates Barney Frank

April 7, 2009

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You can see the video here.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

March 26, 2009

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This video has been making the rounds on YouTube: He is my hero. Can’t we have someone like him in Congress? He has a blog, and you can see his wikipedia page here.

Reboot the public schools—D-Ed Reckoning

March 20, 2009

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D-Ed Reckoning is a fantastic blog on education in America. He has just shared some of his thoughts on how to make public schools better, and more efficient places for learning. Here is his first full post: The administration’s tentative rhetoric-heavy, action-light education policies aren’t going to work. Wishful thinking isn’t going to make up […]

Christianity doesn’t entail socialism

March 15, 2009

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From BrookesNews.com: Christian socialism: an oxymoronic doctrine Gerard Jackson BrookesNews.Com Monday 9 March 2009 As one would expect, Obama received overwhelming support from so-called progressive Christians, those self-righteous folk who think Jesus was social worker and the New Testament was written and published by the Democratic National Committee. The one thing missing from their fantasy […]

The old new deal

March 10, 2009

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Obama’s economic policy: the same Old New Deal Investor’s Business Daily BrookesNews.Com Monday 9 March 2009 Fiscal Policy: Fidelity Investments’ CEO calls President Obama’s economic plan “New Deal II” and says it won’t work any better than it did for FDR. We fear he may be right on both counts. “During the ’30s, Congress — […]

The economic train wreck

March 10, 2009

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Obama’s economic train wreck gathers speed Gerard Jackson BrookesNews.Com Monday 9 March 2009 It’s becoming increasingly clear to market players that Obama and his merry band of economic vandals are completely clueless about economics and the role of markets. These people are purely political. For them, economics is simply a matter of tax, spend and […]

On Obama’s latest gaffe

March 10, 2009

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A snippet from our Mr. Roach: Obama’s increasingly apparent leftism has many marks: unnecessary snubs of our British allies, a penchant for the most indefensible and ideological spending, the hoary politician’s trick of shifting costs to future generations, his incoherence on foreign policy, a lack of moral clarity in dealing with terrorists, and a petty […]

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