Interventionism

The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.

What a warped view of how the market economy works, to think that savings and foreign investment can cripple an economy.

"Why is it that people who rightly criticize the income tax are so quick to accept a national sales tax on consumption?"

Government-controlled fiat money is fraudulent money.

Study of the past, it is assumed, discloses the shape of things to come. Any attempt to reverse or even to stop a trend is doomed to failure.

Peter Ubel has written an informative and useful book, but not entirely for the reasons he thinks. He presents a very well-written and easy-to-understand account of behavioral economics;

Consider our corrupt Federal Reserve System as the ultimate cause of our economic woes.

Falling prices, far from being deflation, are actually the antidote to deflation.

Ultimately, then, the effects of Earth Hour boil down to dim rhetoric. Maybe as much attention should be placed on humanity's hot air footprint as its carbon one.

"If carbon dioxide is classified as a pollutant, then every breath we take can be regulated by government." That sums it up perfectly.