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New
president Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget serves notice that
if you thought government couldn't get any bigger or more intrusive,
think again. The budget "represents real and dramatic change," according to the President. But really the Obama
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LewRockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french111.html
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Friend of the ASI, active member and historian of the Mont Pelerin Society, died on March 14. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow of The Independent Institute and close friend, has penned an obituary. To quote from it:
He was an outstanding economic historian
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Adam Smith Institute Blog
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/misc/obituary:-r.-max-hartwell-200903273185/
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New president Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget serves notice that if you thought government couldn't get any bigger or more intrusive, think again. The budget "represents real and dramatic change," according to the President. But really the Obama
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Ludwig von Mises Institute
http://feeds.mises.org/~r/MisesDailyArticles/~3/Pypdtri9g4o/3365
Originally aired 2/08/2009. Economists Roberts Higgs, Independent Institute Senior Fellow, and Stan J. Liebowitz, Independent Institute Research Fellow, join the panel of the McCuistion Program on PBS to discuss causes of the current economic crisis.
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The speaker's list for the Council on Foreign Relations "A Second Look at the Great Depression" conference on March 30 is out, and it is a doozy--even the Heritage Foundation would never have dared to put forward a speaker's list so partisan, so biased,
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Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
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...predicting the Higgs, explains the behaviour of three out of the Universe's four fundamental forces. And although narrowing the Higgs hunting grounds is important, says Robert Roser, spokesman for the CDF experiment, "we'd rather find it, not exclude it"....
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Nature.com
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The disastrous reign of George W. Bush has ended, but left economic, environmental and other messes. Many of Obama’s promises must be put on the back burner because of this.
Almost nothing is safe in the budget. I’ve heard nary a word from the new
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The Cumberland Times-News
http://www.times-news.com/letters2/local_story_070221432.html
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For those wishing to delve a bit more deeply into how the ever-popular Keynesians are doing their best to stretch the current "mortgage derivative bank bubble" correction into another Great Depression -- and how economists of the Austrian school, from
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
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Yesterday on NRO, Conrad Black continued his crusade to redeem Franklin Delano Roosevelt from those who dare to ask embarrassing questions about the New Deal. Here’s the most embarrassing question of all: Why, despite everything FDR tried, did high
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The Corner
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDBjZDM1ZjA1NTJmNDk4ODIyZTIyMjIzOWRmMjQzMzc=
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4-Block World: President Barack Mugabe
(Clockwise from top) Acea Schomaker, the homemade bong, consisting of a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped plexiglas box, and Shadow, the six-month-old female cat.
URBAN CAMOUFLAGE The art of blending
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American Digest
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/via_wednesday_3.php
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There are many examples. How on his first visit Secretary of State Colin Powell was told that Syria had closed the terrorism offices in Damascus. He announced it. Then found out he'd been tricked. No problem. On next visit, Powell was told by President
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Yid With Lid
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/03/syria-fools-west-1000-times-shame-on.html
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Weekly "news" magazine, Newsweek has an unusual vision of the Middle East. In its latest Cover Story, "learning to live with radical Islam" It pushes some revisionist history:
The groups that advocate these policies are ugly, reactionary forces that
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Yid With Lid
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/03/newsweek-claims-israel-does-not-exist.html
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Mr. Chapman is a research economist affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute. He may be reached at john.chapman@aei.org.
The recent passage of the $787 billion malapropism known as the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" on
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TCS Daily
http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a7cfd81bbc1afdb773d0f699c62de447
Dennis Prager and Robert Higgs discuss Keynesian vs Free Market Economics as they applied to World War II.
Robert Higgs, Independent Institute Senior Fellow, economist, and author of the book Depression, War, and Cold War, discusses war, taxes and economic crises.
Deon Higgs ( Captain ) from Queens ny thought Rochester ny had cows lol . that was funny i was cracking up. i also thought the tyler perry look alike actor, Bryant Cromartie was hilarious when he said Gary had a ony tail. not a pony tail. it was all in fun . Cast members has great chemistry.
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Don't cut social programs to salvage the economy
Regarding the Feb. 9 Opinion piece, "Instead of stimulus, do nothing – seriously": The Founding Fathers exhibited the highest
regard and respect for the common good. Therefore, the phrase to "provide
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Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0219/p08s04-cole.html
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(CBS) In financial and investing circles, it is an article of faith that investors abhor uncertainty. Measurable risks are fine, but unknown risks can be deadly.
Unfortunately, both the Bush and Obama administrations are responsible for injecting a
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsOpinion/~3/p6FoeNSPHSM/main4809496.shtml
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Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I’ve read to fix our current economic mess. The title of his article
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The Oakland Press
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It’s not exactly new, but using the word “emergency” to justify political action — particularly new spending or new taxation — has emerged as the default rhetorical (and legal) trick of the modern politician.
Back on the campaign trail, candidate
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/02/15/government_emergency
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Tulsa World
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Robert Higgs, Independent Institute Senior Fellow and economist, appears on Fox Business to discuss the economic stimulus package. 2009.02.13 http://www.foxbusiness.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3570561&referralPlaylistId=1292d14d0e3afdcf0b31500afefb92724c08f046&maven_referrer=staf .
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Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor on Feb. 9 that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I’ve read to fix our current economic mess. The title of his
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Daily News Record
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Robert Higgs, Independent Institute Senior Fellow, economist, and author of the book Depression, War, and Cold War, appears on Fox Business to discuss the economic stimulus package.
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President Barack Obama insists that the massive $800 billion stimulus package is necessary to avoid "catastrophe." Indeed, during his first primetime news conference, Obama said bigger was better, and pointed to Japan's failed stimulus packages as a
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/CrFUMcXzs0Q/131661.html
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Parties Now Neck-And Neck On Generic Congressional Ballot
Are Republicans winning the public relations battle over spending in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus package? Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week's edition of the
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Red County
http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2009/02/the-right-stuff---2122009/
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Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor (2/9/2009) that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I've read to fix our current economic mess. The title of
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Capitalism Magazine
http://www.CapMag.com/article.asp?ID=5418
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1. Outside of the obvious pork and special interest goodies, what are the biggest problems you see with the stimulus package?
The creation of new bureaucratic and regulatory structures, restrictions on creation of liquidity. The genius of the
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/GOWtjP_dZQc/131632.html
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Dr. Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Oakland-based Independent Institute, penned an article in The Christian Science Monitor (2/9/2009) that suggests the most intelligent recommendation that I've read to fix our current economic mess. The title of
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Creators Syndicate
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Will the US economy right itself if left alone?
Regarding the Feb. 9 Opinion piece, "Instead of stimulus, do nothing – seriously": Permit me to respectfully respond to author
Robert Higgs's commentary. Child labor laws, unemployment insurance, Social
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Christian Science Monitor
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8:49 they were put there after 9-11.
I want my Capitol to be safe and I'm glad they are there so take a hike.
The Senators are furious with J D because he had them vote to cut money for the disabled and Gov. Crist had to save these poor people. Now J D
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The Buzz: Florida Politics
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tampabaycom/blogs/buzz/~3/536441168/kottkamps-frequ.html
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The answer is no, of course, as Crisis and Leviathan author Robert Higgs explains in a superb article about the so-called stimulus for the Christian Science Monitor:
Our greatest need at present is for the government to go in the opposite direction,
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Hit and Run
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/Ee9BhBpWaZo/131591.html
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government has never done anything right---ever. beware yall
Meek is an idiot in Congress who supported Nancy Pelosi's pork filled "stimulus bill".
He won't even make it out of the primary.
Hard headed accountant type?
Is that what constitutional
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The Buzz: Florida Politics
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Newsweek’s “” piece seems designed to provoke, and it’s working. The most interesting response so far comes from Robert Higgs:
I don’t recommend the Newsweek article. Although the writers, Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas, have absorbed a number of true
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Will Wilkinson - The Fly Bottle
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/willwilkinson/VeUZ/~3/534969709/
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The
so-called , described most comprehensively by Robert Higgs, is the
phenomenon of rapid government growth in the face of crises, followed
by a lack of its proportional reduction in the post-crisis stage.
Hitherto investigated primarily through the
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LewRockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/wisniewski1.html
me[robert higgs] and scott taylor singing about 2 secs of use somebody by the Kiings of leon... then we kinda just b pricks lol
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Keynes' followers rooted out almost all of the animal spirits...that lay at the heart of his explanation for the Great Depression...They...minimized the intellectual distance between The General Theory and the standard classical economics of the
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EconLog
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/02/akerlof_and_shi.html
Presented by Robert Higgs at "Our Enemy, Inflation," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 24 January 2009.
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A national crisis -- the bigger and scarier the better -- always provides a good excuse for a leader to grab more power for himself and his political gang or, in the case of the United States, the federal government.
It happened most obviously with
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Salem Statesman-Journal
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090119/OPINION/901190311/1046
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A national crisis -- the bigger and scarier the better -- always provides a good excuse for a leader to grab more power for himself and his political gang or, in the case of the United States, the federal government.
It happened most obviously with
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/01/15/bho_should_crib_from_rwr,_not_fdr
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A national crisis -- the bigger and scarier the better -- always provides a good excuse for a leader to grab more power for himself and his political gang or, in the case of the United States, the federal government.
It happened most obviously with
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_606457.html?source=rss&feed=7
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…real or imagined to scare the public. Step 2. Ask for both a larger and more intrusive government to address the crisis. Step 3. When the crisis is over hang to as much of the additional government and power that was granted. This, in a nutshell, is
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Outside the Beltway
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Economist Robert Higgs writes that a number of economists who have called themselves “free market” endorsed one statist scheme after another that lead the U.S. economy into the tank. Although he won’t mention names, nonetheless, they are legion,
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Newsvine
http://populistamerica.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/02/2267348-free-market-economists-and-economic-ignorance
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Robert Higgs, my favorite crisis prophet, has wisdom for the self-styled free-market economists who freaked out during the past few months:
Back in my
days as a professor, I always endeavored early in the course to
teach my students the fundamental
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EconLog
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/01/the_crisis_prop.html
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Crisis and Leviathan author Robert Higgs goes to town on the free market economists ("you know who you are") who have "gone over to the dark side in recent months." Some snippets:
It now appears, I am saddened to report, that these free-market experts
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/bXJDmIhOh5c/130755.html
12/18/2008 CCHS vs ST Mary's
CCHS 12/19/2008
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This is the fifth installment of "Providing Relief
from the Crisis." Read editor-in-chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s
introduction here.
The current financial crisis has led to unprecedented peacetime
government intervention in the national economy.
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American Spectator
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/12/15/the-highway-to-serfdom
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