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2011 Year-End Appeal
Posted in News on 13 December 2011
Stats: 159 views and No Comments Dear Friend of FEE, A short time ago, a good friend and supporter of FEE explained the importance of what we do. I could not say it better myself, so I share his thoughts with you: What FEE truly offers are intellectual lifelines for people who are drowning in the contemporary educational system. The painful [...]
Posted in News on 13 December 2011
Stats: 159 views and No Comments Dear Friend of FEE, A short time ago, a good friend and supporter of FEE explained the importance of what we do. I could not say it better myself, so I share his thoughts with you: What FEE truly offers are intellectual lifelines for people who are drowning in the contemporary educational system. The painful [...]
FEE in Ghana: Kofi Akosah
Posted in News on 23 November 2011
Stats: 164 views and 1 Comment FEE’s friends come from dozens of countries around the world but among the more notable activists is 34-year-old Africanus “Kofi” Akosah of Accra, Ghana. We are proud of an association with Kofi that has resulted in hundreds of publications on liberty and free market economics being put to good use by Ghanaians and others in [...]
Posted in News on 23 November 2011
Stats: 164 views and 1 Comment FEE’s friends come from dozens of countries around the world but among the more notable activists is 34-year-old Africanus “Kofi” Akosah of Accra, Ghana. We are proud of an association with Kofi that has resulted in hundreds of publications on liberty and free market economics being put to good use by Ghanaians and others in [...]
Happy Capital Day!
Posted in News on 3 September 2011
Stats: 437 views and 2 Comments Any good economist will tell you that as complementary factors of production, labor and capital are not only indispensable but hugely dependent upon each other as well. Capital without labor means machines with no operators, or financial resources without the manpower to invest in. Labor without capital looks like Haiti or North Korea: plenty of [...]
Posted in News on 3 September 2011
Stats: 437 views and 2 Comments Any good economist will tell you that as complementary factors of production, labor and capital are not only indispensable but hugely dependent upon each other as well. Capital without labor means machines with no operators, or financial resources without the manpower to invest in. Labor without capital looks like Haiti or North Korea: plenty of [...]
Seminar Students Take FEE’s Message to Radio Audience in Arizona!
Posted in News on 31 August 2011
Stats: 80 views and No Comments This past July, nearly 200 high school students from many states attended FEE’s Freedom Academy I or Freedom Academy II. (About 400 more attended our college student seminars in Atlanta and New York). Each seminar was an intensive, five-day experience full of lectures and activities intended, as FEE’s strategic plan puts it, “to educate, inspire [...]
Posted in News on 31 August 2011
Stats: 80 views and No Comments This past July, nearly 200 high school students from many states attended FEE’s Freedom Academy I or Freedom Academy II. (About 400 more attended our college student seminars in Atlanta and New York). Each seminar was an intensive, five-day experience full of lectures and activities intended, as FEE’s strategic plan puts it, “to educate, inspire [...]
A Few Thoughts On What Must Be Done
Posted in From the President on 26 January 2011
Stats: 317 views and 4 Comments We must stop judging the character of our government officials by the words they utter or their preachments about helping people with the earnings of others. You can self-righteously declare your solidarity with this or that “needy” special interest and beat your breast about “compassion” until the cows come home and still, at the same [...]
Posted in From the President on 26 January 2011
Stats: 317 views and 4 Comments We must stop judging the character of our government officials by the words they utter or their preachments about helping people with the earnings of others. You can self-righteously declare your solidarity with this or that “needy” special interest and beat your breast about “compassion” until the cows come home and still, at the same [...]
Realignments to Remember
Posted in From the President on 6 October 2010
Stats: 562 views and 4 Comments In American political history, major electoral realignments typically happen against the backdrop of at least one of the following conditions: an unpopular war, a recession or depression, reckless fiscal policies or bigger-than-usual scandals in Washington. Victory for the party on the outs in the balloting early next month may be truly seismic because all four [...]
Posted in From the President on 6 October 2010
Stats: 562 views and 4 Comments In American political history, major electoral realignments typically happen against the backdrop of at least one of the following conditions: an unpopular war, a recession or depression, reckless fiscal policies or bigger-than-usual scandals in Washington. Victory for the party on the outs in the balloting early next month may be truly seismic because all four [...]
Remembering Ralph
Posted in From the President on 8 September 2010
Stats: 375 views and 3 Comments Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education, with offices in Irvington, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The cause of liberty lost a stalwart with the passing last evening (September 7, 2010) of Ralph Smeed of Caldwell, Idaho, at the age of 88. No one in the Gem State was ever more [...]
Posted in From the President on 8 September 2010
Stats: 375 views and 3 Comments Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education, with offices in Irvington, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The cause of liberty lost a stalwart with the passing last evening (September 7, 2010) of Ralph Smeed of Caldwell, Idaho, at the age of 88. No one in the Gem State was ever more [...]
Daily Liberty Checklist
Posted in Articles on 23 February 2010
Stats: 2,463 views and 13 Comments FEE President Lawrence W. Reed provides a checklist for those looking to spread liberty in their daily lives.
Posted in Articles on 23 February 2010
Stats: 2,463 views and 13 Comments FEE President Lawrence W. Reed provides a checklist for those looking to spread liberty in their daily lives.
A Special Thanks to Friends of FEE
Posted in From the President on 7 January 2010
Stats: 132 views and 3 Comments Thank you once again for being our partners for a noble cause. We promise you we will do our best (and get better at it every year), that we will not waver from the principles we share, and that our faith in our friends will never flag. Best wishes for the new year!
Posted in From the President on 7 January 2010
Stats: 132 views and 3 Comments Thank you once again for being our partners for a noble cause. We promise you we will do our best (and get better at it every year), that we will not waver from the principles we share, and that our faith in our friends will never flag. Best wishes for the new year!
Mercer University: A School That Knows Its Economics
Posted in Schools on 5 January 2010
Stats: 194 views and 1 Comment With so many campuses devoid of solid teaching that stresses the critical role of free markets and private property in economic progress, Mercer University is another welcome island in a sea of confusion.
Posted in Schools on 5 January 2010
Stats: 194 views and 1 Comment With so many campuses devoid of solid teaching that stresses the critical role of free markets and private property in economic progress, Mercer University is another welcome island in a sea of confusion.
