(republished from “A View from the Trenches“, September 30th, 2012) Click here to read this article in pdf format: September 30 2012 This week, we want to follow up on some thoughts from our last two letters, where we deduce the impact of
Archive for September, 2012
Labor Unions and Worker “Rights”
In light of various measures to declaw the more harmful provisions of pro-union laws, the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers has put out a memo to the association’s officers and presidents lamenting over what he sees
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Democracy and Force
[This article is excerpted from Liberalism, Chapter 1] 9. Critique of the Doctrine of Force The champions of democracy in the eighteenth century argued that only monarchs and their ministers are morally depraved, injudicious, and evil. The people, however, are
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Mises Meet September
The Toronto meet is being held at Paupers Pub – Thursday, September 27th, 2012 7:00pm until 11:00pm At Paupers Pub 539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6 First Floor, at the back. Speakers include Chris Horlacher Books will be
Austrian A/V Club - Bob Murphy on QE3 and Canadian Fiscal Sanity
Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.
The BBC on F.A. Hayek
Masters Of Money: Friedrich Hayek A look at the life of Hayek and his economic views - including interviews with Peter Schiff, Bruce Caldwell, John Papola, Ron Paul and others. Jeffrey Sachs is particularly clueless… and Paul Krugman is unbearable
Climate Alarmism: Our Sanity and Wallets Need a Break
Reprinted from The Moral Liberal Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts†and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the
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What Happened to Virtue?
In the midst of the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon famously advised President Hoover to “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate†instead of propping each industry up with tax dollars. This liquidation doctrine would “purge the
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No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
From the Wikipedia description: No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority is an 1867 essay by American individualist anarchist, political philosopher and legal theorist Lysander Spooner. It is one of his most famous political tracts. In this lengthy essay, Spooner
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Markets Make Us Smarter and Better
Reprinted from Laissez Faire Today Airlines are loaded with passengers who surf the Internet while soaring through the air, chatting in real-time to anyone else on the globe, posting in social media, shopping, and downloading and reading books on a
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New York Times Propaganda and Fallacies
Perusing the New York Times editorial page on any given day should give any reader of average intelligence the indication that only zombies of men aimlessly barking one liners of “tax the rich†and “support the middle class†actually take
The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Article originally appeared in The Free Market-Volume VI, No. 10, October 1988. Reprinted from Mises.org On August 2, 1988, President Ronald Reagan announced that he had changed his mind about the pro-union plant-closing bill. He had vetoed it three months
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Ohhh Henry on Free Trade and China
If the Canadian and Ontario governments had not wiped out people’s incomes and savings with taxation and inflation then they would not be placed in the position of having to decide whether to allow foreigners with higher savings rates to
Ohhh Henry on Immigrants, Government Workers, and Unions
New immigrants are not an essential ingredient in economic growth. The only essential ingredient is the formation of capital through savings. A large taxation burden caused by, among many other things, supporting immigrants (giving them free housing, welfare, health care,
How to Interpret the Quebec Elections
On September 4th more than 71% of eligible voters cast their ballots to elect a new government in Quebec. The result: Pauline Marois’ PQ (Parti Québécois) barely got a hold of power with 54 seats (and less than 32% of
Liberalism and the State
[This article is excerpted from Liberalism, Chapter 1] 6. Private Property and Ethics In seeking to demonstrate the social function and necessity of private ownership of the means of production and of the concomitant inequality in the distribution of income
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Gold is money?? You don’t say…
Republished from George Washingtons blog on Zerohedge Deutsche Bank analysts Daniel Brebner and Xiao Fu have just released a new report saying that gold is money (via Business Insider): While it is included in the commodities basket it is in fact
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The Brilliant but Confused Radicalism of George Orwell
[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell (1903–1950).” Reprinted from Mises.org] Eric Arthur Blair, who is best known under his pseudonym, George Orwell, was born 107 years ago this month in
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An evening with Art Carden
The Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada presents a talk by Austrian Economist Art Carden. “An Economist’s Perspective on Environmental Issues” Art Carden is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, a Senior Research Fellow with
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The Case Against Reinstating the Bank of Canada
There is a legal case against the Bank of Canada going on right now. It seems that “we” own the BoC and can have the government direct the Bank to loan money “interest free” to finance government’s activities. There are
