Articles in the Featured Category
Can the U.S. Spend Its Way to Prosperity?
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 18 March 2009
Stats: 96 views and No Comments The New York Times editorial page excoriated the European and Japanese governments--for not spending enough money. The newspaper is in near bankruptcy, yet it still advises governments to spend, spend, spend. It is not enough to mock these editorials, given that it seems I might be piling onto yet another ...
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 18 March 2009
Stats: 96 views and No Comments The New York Times editorial page excoriated the European and Japanese governments--for not spending enough money. The newspaper is in near bankruptcy, yet it still advises governments to spend, spend, spend. It is not enough to mock these editorials, given that it seems I might be piling onto yet another ...
Understanding the “Stimulus”
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 11 March 2009
Stats: 97 views and 2 Comments The more I follow the “debate” about President Barack Obama’s “stimulus” package and his plans for the U.S. economy, the more I realize that most people are missing the fundamental issues. While I wish the public debate really was about the efficacy of borrowing a trillion dollars and spending the ...
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 11 March 2009
Stats: 97 views and 2 Comments The more I follow the “debate” about President Barack Obama’s “stimulus” package and his plans for the U.S. economy, the more I realize that most people are missing the fundamental issues. While I wish the public debate really was about the efficacy of borrowing a trillion dollars and spending the ...
The Great Depression
Posted in Articles, Economics, Featured, History on 5 March 2009
Stats: 31,828 views and No Comments Articles About the Great Depression "News Flash: FDR Didn't Restore Prosperity," by Sheldon Richman "Rome and the Great Depression," by Lawrence W. Reed "The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman," by Ivan Pongracic "The Great Escape from the Great Depression," by Robert Higgs "Mysteries of the Great Depression Finally Solved," by Mark Skousen "The Great Duration, ...
Posted in Articles, Economics, Featured, History on 5 March 2009
Stats: 31,828 views and No Comments Articles About the Great Depression "News Flash: FDR Didn't Restore Prosperity," by Sheldon Richman "Rome and the Great Depression," by Lawrence W. Reed "The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman," by Ivan Pongracic "The Great Escape from the Great Depression," by Robert Higgs "Mysteries of the Great Depression Finally Solved," by Mark Skousen "The Great Duration, ...
Is Deflation a Threat to Our Economy?
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 4 March 2009
Stats: 408 views and 1,433 Comments Even though President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have done everything but promise American families their own printing press to crank out money, the chattering classes claim that the deadly threat to the economy is not inflation, but rather deflation. For example, recent Nobel Prize winner Paul ...
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 4 March 2009
Stats: 408 views and 1,433 Comments Even though President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have done everything but promise American families their own printing press to crank out money, the chattering classes claim that the deadly threat to the economy is not inflation, but rather deflation. For example, recent Nobel Prize winner Paul ...
Rome and the Great Depression
Posted in Articles, Featured on 24 February 2009
Stats: 2,467 views and 21 Comments Commentators on the present financial crisis have noted some interesting parallels to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Even if we survive Washington’s spending spree, Congress and the Obama administration could still tip us into catastrophe if they sharply raise taxes or tariffs as Congress did in 1930 and ’32. ...
Posted in Articles, Featured on 24 February 2009
Stats: 2,467 views and 21 Comments Commentators on the present financial crisis have noted some interesting parallels to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Even if we survive Washington’s spending spree, Congress and the Obama administration could still tip us into catastrophe if they sharply raise taxes or tariffs as Congress did in 1930 and ’32. ...
Clichés of Socialism Number 1
Posted in Cliches of Socialism, Featured, From the Archives on 19 February 2009
Stats: 200 views and No Comments This article "Complex Society Requires Complex Government" was originally published by FEE as part of a series titled "Clichés of Socialism". In it Leonard Read exposes the fallacy that the more complex society becomes, the more government it requires. Download File
Posted in Cliches of Socialism, Featured, From the Archives on 19 February 2009
Stats: 200 views and No Comments This article "Complex Society Requires Complex Government" was originally published by FEE as part of a series titled "Clichés of Socialism". In it Leonard Read exposes the fallacy that the more complex society becomes, the more government it requires. Download File
The Fallacy of the Short Run
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 18 February 2009
Stats: 82 views and No Comments In his classic, Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt wrote that every generation must learn to engage in sound economic thinking for itself. This is because the fallacy of the short run in economic matters constantly manifests itself in new forms, as demonstrated in Lawrence Reed’s “7 Fallacies of Economics.” Reed ...
Posted in Featured, Not So Fast! on 18 February 2009
Stats: 82 views and No Comments In his classic, Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt wrote that every generation must learn to engage in sound economic thinking for itself. This is because the fallacy of the short run in economic matters constantly manifests itself in new forms, as demonstrated in Lawrence Reed’s “7 Fallacies of Economics.” Reed ...
A Trillion Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
Posted in Articles, Featured, From the President on 17 February 2009
Stats: 89 views and 14 Comments The pork-laden national disgrace being sold as a “stimulus” bill may say more about the country that swallows it than it does the fools who passed it. If Americans can be suckered into shackling themselves and future generations with trillions in new debt, shame on us. The turpitude of the subsidy-seekers ...
Posted in Articles, Featured, From the President on 17 February 2009
Stats: 89 views and 14 Comments The pork-laden national disgrace being sold as a “stimulus” bill may say more about the country that swallows it than it does the fools who passed it. If Americans can be suckered into shackling themselves and future generations with trillions in new debt, shame on us. The turpitude of the subsidy-seekers ...
Lawrence W. Reed in National Review
Posted in Featured, News on 16 February 2009
Stats: 3 views and No Comments As part of a President's Day celebration, FEE President Lawrence W. Reed was invited by National Review Online to contribute his thoughts on Grover Cleveland and why he should be considered one of the best presidents in U.S. History.
Posted in Featured, News on 16 February 2009
Stats: 3 views and No Comments As part of a President's Day celebration, FEE President Lawrence W. Reed was invited by National Review Online to contribute his thoughts on Grover Cleveland and why he should be considered one of the best presidents in U.S. History.
Keynes Returns
Posted in Featured, The Goal Is Freedom on 13 February 2009
Stats: 285 views and 20 Comments Keynes is all the rage these days. Our House of Commons and Lords--sorry, House of Representatives and Senate--are brimming with Keynesians, and more than one news commentator has boldly declared (as we've heard before), "We're all Keynesians now." (An exception is Newsweek, whose cover blares, "We Are All Socialists Now," but ...
Posted in Featured, The Goal Is Freedom on 13 February 2009
Stats: 285 views and 20 Comments Keynes is all the rage these days. Our House of Commons and Lords--sorry, House of Representatives and Senate--are brimming with Keynesians, and more than one news commentator has boldly declared (as we've heard before), "We're all Keynesians now." (An exception is Newsweek, whose cover blares, "We Are All Socialists Now," but ...
