If you’re like me, you’re breathing a sigh of relief now that President Obama has reassured us that the federal government “has no interest in running GM.” Whew! I was getting nervous there for a second, but it’s nice to see that President Obama is really a moderate at heart who understands that car companies [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 26, 2009
Snow on Thursday
In an effort to (finally) deliver on his promise to make government “more transparent,” President Obama is taking questions from you, the studio audience. This Thursday he even plans to deliver pre-recorded “answers” to a few of them, as long as they are deemed to be suitably sycophantic. And just to make sure that nothing [...]
March 24, 2009
Until They Try to Take It
Not that the Constitution matters these days, but it does contain a clause (located in the Bill of Rights, just after the First Amendment and just before the Third) that states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall [...]
March 22, 2009
Winging It
With the exception of the World Wars, the Great Depression provided the government the single greatest opportunity to expand its control over the lives of average Americans. FDR’s New Deal imposed a raft of policies intended to force the market into behaving according to the dictates of the political class, rather than according to the [...]
March 8, 2009
Inflation and the War Machine
A few weeks ago I drove down to Houston to attend the Mises Circle. It’s an annual seminar put on by the Mises Institute, and the topic this year was inflation. It was a really good event, and the audio and video is available on Mises.org for anyone who’s interested.
One of the speakers was [...]
