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Free Market Burns — Fire Department Doesn’t Help

By: Alex Schibuola
10/19/2010

This post was coauthored by Jered Piepenbrink and Alex Schibuola. On October 3, a home burned to the ground in Obion County, Tennessee, though it…

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A Potentially Bold Fiscal Policy Experiment in U.K.

By: Alex Schibuola
10/15/2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron plans to cut 192 independent government agencies in an…

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Fun Fiscal Policy Fact

By: Alex Schibuola
10/15/2010

Table: Real growth rates of GDP, government expenditures, and federal tax receipts (year-end). The conventional wisdom is that the Hoover administration cut federal spending and…

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The Problem with Stephen Menendian’s Libertarian Straw Man

By: Alex Schibuola
10/14/2010

I really enjoyed this article by Stephen Menendian of Race-Talk. The author’s complete lack of knowledge of libertarian or classical liberal thinking is…

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Economic Illiteracy and Stopping Foreclosures

By: Alex Schibuola
10/11/2010

Express, a publication of The Washington Post, notes that as a result of a stoppage in mortgage foreclosures: “Prices might stabilize because so many homes…

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10:10 = Economic Illiteracy

By: Alex Schibuola
10/07/2010

10:10 Video: Blowing Up Children (Viewer Discretion Advised) What an inspiring film — people who refuse to cut their personal CO2 emissions are sentenced…

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Free Market Burns — Fire Department Doesn’t Help

A Potentially Bold Fiscal Policy Experiment in U.K.

Fun Fiscal Policy Fact

The Problem with Stephen Menendian’s Libertarian Straw Man

Economic Illiteracy and Stopping Foreclosures

10:10 = Economic Illiteracy