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The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present an incredibly powerful interview with Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. The company’s flagship publication, FORBES , is the leading business magazine. Combined with international and licensee editions, FORBES reaches more...
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Filed under: Gold, silver, Ben Bernanke, U.S. dollar, gold standard, Utah Legal Tender Act, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, fiat money, U.S. economic policy, Ronald Reagan, health insurance, sound money, Lech Walesa, IRS, Heritage Foundation, tax reform, ObamacCare, Internal Revenue Service, Steve Forbes, taxes, free market, Princeton University, deregulation, health care
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A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market by Alex Merced Listen to Peter Kleins Lecture here You've might have read in previous posts on Liberty is Now that I am one of the Libertarians who criticize corporations role in the free market. Although Let me make a few quick...
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Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
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Sun, Apr 25 2010
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Filed under: Private Sector, FINRA, Entertainment, Federal Reserve, Consequence, Regulation, SIPC, Individualism, Magazines, Rating Agencies, Free Market, SEC, Reviews, FDIC, Collectivism
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) One of the roles of government, debated even among those of a libertarian or small government perspective, is that of regulating monopolies and ensuring competition. On a larger political scale, the debate may focus on how free or how socialized should a market...
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Damien Manier
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Tue, Mar 30 2010
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Filed under: capitalism, corporatism, corporate welfare, libertarian, free market, license, natural monopoly, public utility, privatization, patent, monopoly, competition
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the many following bills that modified and added to it has been a great affront to property rights and by extension individual sovereignty. Whether we examine the impacts of “equality of outcome” the Civil Rights Act...
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We tend to forget that government, politics, and economics are not the same thing. The word politics and the phrase political party don’t even occur in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Nor is the word economy even implied in either of these documents. In fact, George Washington, the...
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Mon, Feb 23 2009
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Filed under: capitalism, government, politics, greed, selfishness, nepotism, free market, materialism, hedonism, economics
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Over and over I keep reading about how the free market has died...how our current crisis is the result of free market forces. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The crisis that we are experiencing is one of interventionism . It always strikes me as comical when I read that our financial...
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http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/09/cracking-down-on-market-manipulation.html
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Advertising receives a lot of criticism. So I decided to put down my thoughts. Below is a fictional conversation that tries to get my views across: Don't you hate how these big corporations make us buy their junk? What do you mean by "make us"? You know, they make us buy through advertising...
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It's very common to hear something like the following: "How can someone like Adam Sandler make $20 million per movie, while a teacher makes a pittance?" This is usually followed by a declaration on how everyone's priorities are messed up, and how (somehow) Capitalism is to blame? Today...
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The War on Drugs This one has been going on for a long time. I started with this one, not because of personal preferences of any kind, but because this is the basis for so much federal intervention into the everyday lives of the citizens and it is the one I am most familiar with. The model to enact federal...
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Filed under: immigration, illegal, libertarian, big government, excuses, funding, Terrorism, war, free market, drugs
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Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button Everyone has probably seen the commercials for the office supply company were all the person has to do is push the “easy” button and all their problems are solved. Every time I see that commercial I think about what Rothbard said in “Toward a Theory of Strategy of...
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Some people in the movement seem to want to hold on to the relics of the past as if their lives depend on it. I believe this is due to an inability to comprehensively come up with new approaches to age old problems. Of course, that is only a part of it. There is also the refusal to face the reality of...