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For it to be a bubble, it would have to be unsustainable. While I agree that government subsidies of education are a waste of money, I think it's sustainably wasteful, unlike the housing bubble. If education were about improving your human capital (making you more productive by giving you useful knowledge, skills, etc), the current system wouldn't
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Tom DiLorenzo mentions a bunch of stuff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_AV5xlt8k Iirc, he mentions a few books on the subject in his lecture, but I don't remember what they were and don't want to watch the whole thing again. Tom Woods has an excellent discussion of the special interests behind military spending in Rollback (stuff like
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It's not that they want lower interest rates, it's that they want the newly printed money. The Fed prints money and loans it to the banks at very low interest rates, who then loan it out for more and pocket the difference. Because of the increase in the supply of loans, the interest rate goes down. But even if they could make more money with
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GMU Econ Society Debate: Separation of Health & State
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[quote user="NeoCon"]Ron Paul believes that "blowback" is the primary motivation behind the actions of nations.[/quote] No he doesn't. He has never said that. He's said that 'blowback' is the primary reason a few specific events happened, but he's never said anything like it being the "primary motivation
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but it does explain how a free nation might defend itself without violating the non-aggression principal. http://mises.org/journals/jls/20_3/20_3_2.pdf
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'The Endless Sufferings of Cairo, Illinois' http://mises.org/daily/5281