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Campaign For Liberty Blog

• McCain Bill a Threat to Health Freedom

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 4:44pm PST

  By Anthony GregoryRepublicans once championed liberty against overbearing federal interference in the realm of dietary supplements, but the man who helped bring us McCain-Feingold is now pushing a bill that would assault this precious freedom. But many Americans have begun to stand against it....

Mises Economics Blog

• Geithner: U.S. will never lose Aaa debt rating

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 3:48pm PST

  We can all sleep soundly, the Treasury Secretary told ABC News that a downgrade of US debt "will never happen to this country." |...

• Mortgage Bankers Association selling their building

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 2:34pm PST

  The Mortgage Bankers Association is selling their building in Washington DC for $41.3 million, which sounds like a lot, except the trade group bought the building for $79 million in 2007 with the help of a $75 million loan from PNC Financial. A ...

Homeland Stupidity

• More Spending is Always the Answer

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 2:12pm PST by Ron Paul

  Last week, the House approved another increase in the national debt ceiling. This means the government can borrow $1.9 trillion more to stay afloat and avoid default. It has been little more than a year since the last debt ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Doug French on Radio FreeMarket

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:50pm PST

  Here is an interview with Doug French on fractional reserves on RadioFreeMarket. |...

• Two Product Changes

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:28pm PST

  Human Action now has a new cover, 3.0 one might say. In any case, it is very sleek and good looking, with an astonishing price of $35. The associated products such as the Study Guide and Audio will conform in time. ...

• Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010): Arts. 1 and 2: Moundsville Reconsidered; Austrian Business Cycle Theory and 100 Percent Reserves

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:06pm PST

  Two new articles published today in Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010): 1. "Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on Hyperreality at a Small Town Prison Tour", by Allen Mendenhall Abstract: In 2007, I toured Moundsville Penitentiary, a tourist spectacle that was once--and fairly ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• Ron Paul Interview

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:06pm PST

  By Matt HawesDr. Paul will be interviewed on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight around 9:23 pm eastern. Update: The interview has been canceled for this evening.  Stay tuned for any news on rescheduling....

RedStateEclectic

• Government Health Care Killed John Murtha

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:01pm PST by Angela Thorn

  According to Politico: The 77-year-old Democrat underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove his gallbladder at Bethesda Naval Hospital last Thursday but then, after his release, sought care at the Virginia Hospital Center over the weekend. The congressman’s spokesman declined to say ...

Mises Economics Blog

• C.S. Lewis Society Newsletter with Calls for Papers

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 12:33pm PST

  Here. It includes calls for papers for a number of very interesting-looking conferences. |...

EconLog

• Bipartisan Health Care Reform: My Bottom Line

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 12:09pm PST by Arnold Kling

  (February 8, 2010 08:09 PM, by Arnold Kling) If I were a Republican, I would use any health care summit to set the following conditions for agreeing to support a bipartisan health plan. 1. All Medicare savings must be used to shore up Medicare. None ...

• Pricing the Apple iPad

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:54am PST by Arnold Kling

  (February 8, 2010 07:54 PM, by Arnold Kling) Megan McArdle writes, One estimate is that the cheapest iPad costs $270 to manufacture. Throw in advertising, transportation, distribution, and so forth, and maybe they can cut the price $100 if they're willing to make a slim ...

Mises Economics Blog

• The Revolution Continues: Revamped Online Resources from FEE

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:07am PST

  The Foundation for Economic Education has revised its online library (HT: Lawrence Reed). A quick scan suggests a treasure trove of useful material. This reinforces my belief that we're living in the middle of an intellectual revolution. As more material like this goes online ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• "How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery for the Medical Debate"

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:05am PST

  By Matt HawesReason TV takes a look at how prices have come down over time and quality has improved in the Lasik eye surgery market due to less government interference. [www.youtube.com] It's time to try true reforms, as called for ...

RedStateEclectic

• The Amazing Julian Simon (1937-1998) - (3/3)

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:48am PST by Georg Thomas

  Writes F.A. Hayek in 1981:Dear Professor Simon,I have never before written a fan letter to a professional colleague, but to discover that you have in your Economics of Population Growth provided the empirical evidence for what with me is the ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• Obama to Continue Health Care Talks

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:26am PST

  By Matt HawesAccording to the U.K.'s Guardian: Barack Obama will make a fresh push this month to get his troubled health reform package through Congress by holding a meeting with both Democrats and Republicans aimed at finding common ground. The half-day of discussion, to ...

RedStateEclectic

• The Amazing Julian Simon (1937-1998) - (2/3)

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:05am PST by Georg Thomas

  In his Wall Street Journal obituary in honour of Julian Simon, Ben Wattenberg wrote in 1998:His keystone work was "The Ultimate Resource," published in 1981 and updated in 1996 as "The Ultimate Resource 2" (Princeton University Press). Its central point ...

• The Amazing Julian Simon (1937-1998) - (1/3)

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:05am PST by Georg Thomas

  A great independent mind, American scholar Julian Simon, age 65, died unexpectedly on February 8, 1998. ”Fortunately for this planet,” Mr. Simon said in response to the Global 2000 Report, ”these gloomy assertions about resources and environment are baseless.” ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Argentina update: Civilized Coordination from Yale.

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:33am PST

  Argentina President Christina Kirchner found some Yale-trained talent in her own backyard to serve as central bank president. "Everyone knows that I am convinced that the central bank and the monetary, exchange rate and financial policy are fundamental for deepening the development policies," ...

• Did Goldman Sachs push A.I.G. over the edge?

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:20am PST

  A very interesting New York Times article explores the business relationship between Goldman and A.I.G.. "Well before the federal government bailed out A.I.G. in September 2008, Goldman's demands for billions of dollars from the insurer helped put it in a precarious financial position ...

• Are Rothbardians unreasonable?

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:17am PST

  In a post on "Libertarian Schisms," economist Arnold Kling tries to figure out whether he's a Rothbardian or a Hayekian. To do so, he asks himself several questions, the first of which is: 1. How are willing are you to talk about compromises ...

RedStateEclectic

• Gary Johnson on ReasonTV

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:02am PST by Laura Ebke

  Nice condensed version of this interview: ...

Liberty Maven

• Ron Paul Introduces Free Competition in Currency Act

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 8:54am PST by Mike Miller

  A few weeks ago, Ron Paul introduced one of the Downsize DC Agenda bills. Throughout 2009, DC Downsizers ALONE called for Congressman Paul to re-introduce the three “Honest Money” bills using our “End the Inflation Tax” campaign. We had specifically called for the Congressman not ...

RedStateEclectic

• Ruining a Country and a World

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 8:35am PST by Laura Ebke

  While America is practicing a global military imperialism China is pursuing a spectacular global economic imperialism. Ironically, America's militarism is being financed indirectly by China buying up America's debt. Where China and other countries are ascendant economically the US is a failed industrial state, having ...

lowercase liberty

• new tools for old books

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 8:32am PST by bkmarcus

  If I were still an active programmer, I’d try to automate this: Amazon.com has thousands of public-domain books for the Kindle. They are garbage. They are poorly formatted and riddled with typos. They were all computer generated, never proofed by human beings. Project Gutenberg ...