Tonight I will show that no government can successfully turn on its owncitizens when they own guns. No government in history turned on its ownpeople as malevolently or on as large a scale as Hitler’s Third Reich. Itkilled seven million of its own citizens, six million of them Jews — andthe Nazis could not have […]
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The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is an excellent time to reflect on and give thanks for one’s blessings. We were doing so with friends when conversation turned to the adoption of neglected children. We implicitly agreed that one important measure of a society is the care it provides for needy children. This reminded me […]
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From The Bozeman Daily Chronicle Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Is it just me or do people in the “Occupy” movement seem mostly interested in occupying their time? They’d be better off trying to occupy that vast empty space between their ears; but why bother when someone will give you a slogan and armband for free. […]
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Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) was founded in Switzerland in 1947 by Frederic Hayek, a young Milton Friedman, and 35 other scholars, mostly economists. They met to discuses the growth of governmental intrusion and the future of classical liberalism. MPS had a strong commitment to responsible liberty but not to any political party. “Its sole objective […]
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From The Wall Street Journal Online September 29, 2011 This Saturday, government price controls on debit card interchange fees (which card issuers charge to merchants) go into effect. The controls are the result of the Durbin amendment to last year\’s Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. They were enacted at the behest of big-box retailers such as […]
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Reframing is a psychological term meaning that the reaction to any situation is found in the frame in which it is viewed. Reframing life’s rewards will be a requirement of satisfaction for those who mature in our changed economy. The future isn’t what it was. It’s likely you’ve heard people in their 50s and 60s […]
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There are three basic types of entrepreneurship, for-profit, intellectual, and social. Google exemplifies the first, The Copenhagen Consensus the second, and Warriors and Quiet Waters the third. All require a good organization and good management to be effective. Organizations are created to achieve some purpose. The motivation may be a good cause, for example healing […]
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From NCPA Health Alerts, September 7, 2011 There are not very many good things you can say about a deep recession. But from a researcher’s point of view, there is one silver lining. This recession has given us a natural experiment in health economics — and the results are stunning. But, first things first. Here […]
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FREE just completed a summer conference, co-sponsored with MSU, for federal judges—2011 marks the twentieth year of this program. Several asked how this series began. Here’s an overview and a prediction for Bozeman. Its attractions are an increasing strong magnet for healthy, successful people. The foundation of the judges program began in the 1980s. I […]
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Many quite normal people, not just the paranoid, believe America will spiral downward and drown in a sea of debt. The August 5th downgrade of U.S. bonds stoked their fears. Much of the debt problem is based on entitlements, commitments to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Prescription Drug Act. As Rep. Barney Frank of […]
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