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Category Archives: Economics
Tom Palmer and the Morality of Capitalism at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Last week, Cato senior fellow and Atlas Economic Research Foundation executive Vice President, Dr. Tom Palmer visited the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to provide a moral defense for free market capitalism. The event, hosted by the Young Americans … Continue reading
New LearnLiberty Video Released Today
The LearnLiberty team at the Institute for Humane Studies has just released their first “counterpoint” video featuring a LearnLiberty style response to popular anti-market videos on the internet. Today’s video features Prof. Art Carden addressing The Story of Broke, a new installment … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Economics, News
Tagged Learn Liberty, LearnLiberty, LearnLiberty.org, The Story of Broke, The Story of Stuff
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Sorry to Cramp Your Stimulus, But…
When I read Paul Krugman’s latest defense of Keynesian economics a few days ago, I was shocked and amazed that even Krugman fans and devout Keynesians would swallow his latest strange and rambling defense of stimulus. It doesn’t take an economist to … Continue reading
Injured Economic Patriotism
It’s official: America has taken a nose dive in the economic freedom index. The Fraser Institute recently released their annual Economic Freedom of the World report, and the US dropped from 6th to 10th. When I saw the news start popping … Continue reading
Fed’s “Solution”: Continue With the Problem
The following op-ed by was originally published in the Amarillo Globe-News on September 3rd, 2011: Recently, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared on “Meet the Press” in an attempt to reassure the American people that there was no chance that the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Economics, News, SFL
Tagged Federal Reserve, Inflation, National Debt
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On Earthquakes, Aliens, and Economic Growth
After the recent Virginia earthquake, an instantaneously infamous status update popped up on a fake Paul Krugman Google+ account that said, “People on Twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, News
Tagged aliens, Bastiat, Broken Window., Earthquake, Krugman, Paul Krugman
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Is the Cost of Living Really Going Up?
Check out the latest LearnLiberty video released today. The video features Professor Steve Horwitz discussing the myth that the cost of living has continually risen over the last 100 years. Tweet
Would Matt Damon Support Government Movie Theaters?
Recently, reason.tv reporter Michelle Fields interviewed actor Matt Damon at the “Save Our Schools March” in Washington, D.C. The former Students For Liberty Campus Coordinator questioned Damon about the tenure system that guarantees jobs for teachers of any quality. Personally, … Continue reading
Are We Richer than We Think?
This video from The Fund for American Studies has been making its way all around the free market blogosphere this past week. Stossel blogged about it, as did Peter Robinson, and Dan Mitchell. In fact, Students For Liberty was among the first … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Economics
Tagged CEI, Census Bureau, Dan Mitchell, Internet, Lee Doren, Michelle Fields, Moveon.org, Peter Robinson, Robert Reich, Stossel, TFAS, wealth
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How Can Libertarians Make the Blind See the “Not Seen”?
“In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other … Continue reading
