Category Archives: Libertarianism – the Debate
The Apparatchiks
Ron Paul hits his stride
Ron Paul Strikes Gold Why the oft-marginalized congressman is the greatest threat to Obama’s regulatory plan.
American Socialist State
President Obama’s visit to Moscow this week may turn out to be a very good thing. Forget all this jibber-jabber about nuclear disarmament. There is no better reminder than the former Soviet Union for how the fantasies of a few … Continue reading
Forgetting What We Learned
ILLITERACY IN HIGH PLACES by Paul Craig Roberts If a person lives long enough, he can watch everyone forget everything they learned. Everyone includes Federal Reserve Chairmen, economists, Bank of America “strategists,” and even Bloomberg.com. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke … Continue reading
“Huh?”…asked the terminator
June 2 (Bloomberg) — Imagine a novel of more than a thousand pages, published half a century ago. The author doesn’t have a talk-radio show and has been dead for 27 years. As for the storyline, it is beyond dated: … Continue reading
How libertarian dogma led the Fed astray
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/705574f2-3356-11de-8f1b-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html The Federal Reserve has been hobbled by at least two major shortcomings that were primarily responsible for the current and several previous credit crises. Its failure to spot the importance of changing financial markets and its commitment to laisser … Continue reading