Category: Economics (snooze)
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Monday “No Fed” Open Comments
The Ludwig von Mises Institute has an interesting question: Do we even need to have a Fed? For all the Fed’s imposing grandeur, Ben Bernanke is running our third (albeit longest-running) try at a central bank. This country has lived without a central bank before and, if given the chance, could do so again. Most…
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Thursday Sowell Open Comments
I found this interview, and I must admit that Thomas Sowell is probably one of the most intelligent men that I’ve ever seen. I think we’ve found an articulate, clean black man. And this one is intelligent, too! Even though he was a Marxist for years (which I didn’t know and I found quite surprising),…
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Friday Open Comments
Paulie K. is always good for a laugh when you don’t have anything else for the OC: “Have you left no sense of decency?” That’s the question Joseph Welch famously asked Joseph McCarthy, as the red-baiting demagogue tried to ruin yet another innocent citizen. And these days, it’s the question I find myself wanting to…