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"Come
può accadere che le istituzioni che servono
al benessere comune e sono estremamente significative
per il suo sviluppo sorgano senza una volontà
comune intenzionata a formarle?"
Carl
Menger
"A
society that does not recognize that each individual
has values of his own which he is entitled to
follow,
can have no respect for the dignity of the individual
and cannot really know freedom."
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Friedrich Hayek said of his book The Fatal Conceit that "it is a work for which one has to be an economist, but this is not enough!"
Hayek's Challenge is a success, and Caldwell proves himself capable of presenting Hayek's ideas — in all fields — with both depth and clarity.
National Review Online |
| domenica, febbraio 29, 2004
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Economics, Philosophy, and Politics. Hans-Hermann Hoppe interviewed by Emrah Akkurt, Turkey-Association for Liberal Thinking. To be published in a forthcoming special issue of the economic journal Piyasa on socialism.
Mises Institute
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Si dice spesso che Keynes e il New Deal salvarono il capitalismo. In realtà, le sue idee hanno profondamente alterato ciò che chiamiamo capitalismo”. Lew Rockwell in “Speaking of Liberty”, pag. 72.
"La maggior parte degli economisti, sulle orme di Keynes, considera erroneamente come deficienze proprie del sistema di libero mercato quella che in realtà è l'incapacità del libero mercato di funzionare correttamente a causa delle interferenze governative".
Usemlab |
| mercoledì, febbraio 25, 2004
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Per la prima volta, quest'anno, l' 'Index of Economic Freedom' verrà presentato anche in Italia, in un evento organizzato congiuntamente dall'Istituto Bruno Leoni e dalla Heritage Foundation. Il 26 febbraio prossimo, alle ore 11, presso la Sala Conferenze 'Giovanni Spadolini' della Biblioteca del Senato, a Roma, ne discuteranno il ministro della difesa Antonio Martino, il senatore Franco Debenedetti, l'onorevole Giancarlo Pagliarini, l'Avv. Tito Tettamanti insieme a due analisti della Heritage Foundation, Marc Miles (a lungo stretto collaboratore di Arthur Laffer) ed Ana Eiras.
Istituto Bruno Leoni |
| mercoledì, febbraio 25, 2004
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Articoli
Etica d’impresa ed etica personale, di Robert Sirico
Quando La Pira combatteva Costa e don Sturzo, di Dario Antiseri
Le colpe degli economisti, di Ettore Gotti Tedeschi
Libri
Matteo De Girolamo, Da Sturzo a Novak. Itinerari etici di capitalismo democratico, Edizioni Dehoniane, Roma 1998 (nuova edizione), di Flavio Felice
Pierre Manent, Storia intellettuale del liberalismo, di Andrea Cacciuttolo
Dario E. Vigano, I sentieri della comunicazione. Storia e teoria, di Massimo Baldini
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The United Nations appears eager to assume greater control over the Net, not because of its failures, but because it undermines members' authority. That sounds like the best reason ever to make sure a United Nations for the Internet never becomes a reality.
Heartland Institute |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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Suddenly, he is the most unpopular German chancellor in modern history. Gerhard Schroeder's six-year honeymoon is over. Since winning re-election by only 6,500 votes in September 2002 he has seen his poll ratings plummet to 25 percent. .... What went wrong?
Tech Central Station |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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Whenever I hear the words 'universal health care' -- as I did during Sunday night's Democratic debate in Wisconsin-- a shiver goes down my spine. You see, I grew up in Great Britain, where the National Health Service supposedly provides top-quality health care to all Britons, free at the point of delivery.
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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As George Bush's first term nears its end, Powell's tenure as top diplomat is approaching its nadir. On the high-profile issues of the day, he seems to have almost no influence within the administration. And his fateful briefing one year ago before the U.N. Security Council -- where he attached his personal credibility to claims of Iraqi WMD -- has destroyed his once-considerable standing with the Democrats, not to mention our European allies, most of the United Nations, and the media. At times, Powell has taken his fate with resigned humor. Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in The New Yorker last year of a diplomatic soiree that Powell attended on the eve of war, at which a foreign diplomat recited a news account that Bush was sleeping like a baby. Powell reportedly replied, 'I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.'
MSN |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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A federal court has ruled that privately held 321 Studios must stop making software that allows users to copy DVDs, handing Hollywood's major movie studios a victory in their ongoing battle against copyright piracy. ... The case had tested the limits of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects copyright holders from illegal copying of movies, music, books and TV shows, among other creative content. 321 Studios had argued its software protected DVD owners because it gave them the ability to make copies in case their original DVDs were destroyed and the company claimed the DMCA allowed the copying DVDs if copies were designed for the sole use of the owners
CNN Money |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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The market tribunals that oversee telecommunications and the electric power sectors will have to be disbanded and
dismantled along with their regulatory frameworks. This would then allow unrestricted market competition to fulfill its role as a market driven regulator.
Le Quebequeois Libre |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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Last fall Istook was offended by ads in Washington's Metro system .... So he did what any intolerant, power-mad politician would do: He wrote legislation to ban the speech he did not like, not only from Metro buses, trains, and stations but from every mass transit system in the country that receives federal funds.
Reason Online |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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For decades, opinion pollsters have shown Americans prefer lower taxes and less government spending. Why then do the politicians tax and spend more than the people say they want? The answer is that for any spending program there is a concentration of benefits and a dispersion of costs.
Cato Institute |
| lunedì, febbraio 23, 2004
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Dopo il testo di Ralph Raico, il secondo degli Occasional Papers presentati dall'Istituto Bruno Leoni, è uno studio di Antonio Martino (Professore di economia politica e attualmente ministro della Difesa) dedicato ai temi della concorrenza fiscale: “Federalismo fiscale: una proposta radicale”. Il testo – disponibile sul sito www.brunoleoni.it - offre un’aperta difesa di quel federalismo competitivo che valorizza in ambito istituzionale le logiche della responsabilità e della concorrenza.
L’autore evidenzia i benefici derivanti ai cittadini dall’essere parte di comunità minuscole. Citando uno studio di Robert Summers, egli mostra che l’efficienza istituzionale delle realtà di limitate dimensioni favorisce straordinari successi sul piano economico. In questo quadro, ai paesi grandi (o anche medio-grandi, come nel caso dell’Italia) non resta che la strada di una trasformazione federale, che permetta di por fine ad un sistema nel quale la tassazione è quasi totalmente decisa e gestita “dal governo centrale, che devolve poi parte del gettito agli enti locali”. Per Martino, in effetti, questo sistema è pessimo perché conduce ad un “divorzio” tra le decisioni di prelievo e quelle di spesa, così che l’ente locale è totalmente deresponsabilizzato e spinto a chiedere quanti più soldi e a spendere in maniera indiscriminata; oltre a ciò, il sistema attuale realizza una redistribuzione delle singole spese locali sull’intera popolazione, così che nessuno appare davvero motivato a reagire contro iniziative pubbliche dissennate.
Martino propone, quindi, di prendere in considerazione la proposta dell’economista Dwight Lee, il quale ha suggerito che entro una società federale (l’America di oggi, l’Italia di domani) la potestà impositiva venga sottratta al centro e affidata esclusivamente agli enti locali. Nel caso italiano, nessuna tassa verrebbe imposta e gestita da Roma, poiché ogni competenza in tale materia sarebbe attribuita ai governi locali, liberi di definire entità e modalità del prelievo. Ai governi locali, ovviamente, resterebbe l’obbligo di versare al centro una quota predeterminata (una percentuale fissa delle proprie entrate: il 30%, ad esempio), che consenta di assolvere ai suoi impegni.
È chiaro che una simile logica si muove esattamente nella direzione opposta rispetto a ciò che sta avvenendo in Europa, dove le logiche centraliste vanno suggerendo una progressiva “armonizzazione” delle politiche fiscali (che eliminerebbe la libertà di “optare” per questo o quel regime fiscale). Il commento di Martino, al riguardo, è quanto mai eloquente: “A chi ci accusasse di voler dar vita alla concorrenza fra ‘paradisi fiscali’, converrà ricordare che un paradiso fiscale è certamente preferibile ad un inferno fiscale”.
Lo sappiamo da tempo: il fine della teoria liberale è la tutela della libertà individuale, e lo strumento fondamentale per ottenere tutto ciò, senza dubbio, è la libera concorrenza. Questo testo di Antonio Martino ci aiuta a tenerlo bene presente anche quando si parla di federalismo e concorrenza istituzionale.
Antonio Martino, Istituto Bruno Leoni
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| giovedì, febbraio 19, 2004
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American Forces Won't Be Withdrawn for Years. In an interview published in Spain, Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said that U.S. troops will be engaged in maintaining order for at least another year. And once those policing duties have been completed, American forces can expect to be garrisoned in Iraq for "years, not months." Cato's director of defense policy studies, Charles V. Peña, maintains that the longer American forces remain, "the more Iraqis will come to resent a foreign occupier."
Cato Institute |
| giovedì, febbraio 19, 2004
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This remarkable treatise on Nazism and the total state was published by Yale University (New Haven, CT) in 1944 and reprinted by Arlington House (New Rochelle, NY) in 1969. It is now published by the Libertarian Press (Grove City, PA) and available from the Mises Institute's catalog ($11 for paperback). Selected reviews below.
Entire Text in PDF Edition availlable online
Mises Insitute |
| giovedì, febbraio 19, 2004
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In short, Greenspan has informed us that his low interest rate policy since January 2001 is finally starting to produce good results. But is it factually correct that the financial condition of consumers and businesses has improved to such an extent that economic expansion is likely to be sustainable?
Frank Shostak, Mises Institute |
| giovedì, febbraio 19, 2004
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The hegemony of the Left over the universities is so overwhelming that not even Leftists deny it. Whether the institution is public or private, a community college or an Ivy League campus, you can with absolute confidence predict that the curriculum will be suffused with themes such as...
Tech Central Station |
| sabato, febbraio 14, 2004
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A dispetto della retorica di cui sono ammantate, le regolamentazioni antitrust possono nuocere ai consumatori ed al diritto di innovare: lo sostengono Alberto Mingardi, Direttore del dipartimento "Globalizzazione e concorrenza" dell'Istituto Bruno Leoni, e Paolo Zanetto, Policy Advisor dell'IBL, in un "Briefing Paper" da oggi disponibile sul sito Internet www.brunoleoni.it.
Mingardi e Zanetto da una parte sottolineano il fallimento giurisprudenziale di molte decisioni antitrust prese dalla Commissione europea, dall'altra evidenziano i paradossi di verdetti quali quelli contro Ryanair e Microsoft (oggi presa di mira dal Commissario Monti).
L'unico crimine della software house di Seattle, scrivono Mingardi e Zanetto, è "l'eccellenza nel soddisfare i consumatori". Fra il 1988 e il 1995, nei mercati nei quali Microsoft propone i suoi prodotti si è vista una dimunuzione dei prezzi (-65%) più consistente di quella osservata nei settori nei quali invece essa non è in gioco (-15%).
"Limitare il 'diritto di innovare' e pensare i mercati staticamente", secondo l'IBL, "è una ricetta sicura per ridurre le possibilità della crescita economica, garantire soltanto quanti oggi producono un determinato bene (e non chi domani potrebbe inventarne di nuovi), penalizzare i consumatori".
Istituto Bruno Leoni |
| venerdì, febbraio 13, 2004
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Gli Stati Uniti fra conservatori e neoconservatori
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Bush fails to tie his tax cutting to anything resembling spending discipline. If it's a noble cause, then the president seems willing to spend the people's money on it. Besides his costly prescription-drug program, Bush wants to spend billions of tax dollars on new government initiatives ranging from a manned moon mission to programs for strengthening marriage to increased spending on existing programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts
National Review Online |
| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Have we forgotten our history? When Reagan put Marines into the middle of Lebanon's civil war, 241 perished in the terrorist bombing of their Beirut barracks. Reagan retaliated, but got out. He should never have gone in. Who runs Beirut or rules Lebanon is not our business. When we intervened in Somalia's civil war, we got 'Blackhawk Down' in Mogadishu and 18 dead Rangers. Again, we pulled out. We should never have gone in. When we planted a U.S.
army on Saudi soil after the Gulf War, we got 9-11. Now we have pulled out of there. How often must we be taught the lesson?
World Net Daily |
| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Many investors purchased absurdly overvalued stocks during the late '90s and have since suffered devastating losses. The explanation now given for this is that the stock market was in a "bubble" which has burst, but those buying stocks at the time were not able to identify the bubble.
Mises Institute
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| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Is the Middle East ready for democracy? President Bush's State of the Union address argued that Middle Eastern democracy is a realistic short-term goal. A more pessimistic view, asserted Bush, 'is mistaken, and condescending, to assume that whole cultures and
great religions are incompatible with liberty and self-government.' Unfortunately, it is President Bush who is mistaken. Although the goal is laudable, his administration will be gravely disappointed with its effort to establish a stable democracy in any Arab nation home to a large Muslim population. That's the verdict rendered by history, the contemporary reality of the region, and our own government experts.
Cato Institute
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| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Fair play is a bogus issue in trade. Fairness is important only when one has an obligation to provide service or consideration to some group of people, say, a teacher to one's students or an airline carrier to those who have been promised provision on some flight. Then, and only then, can the complaint, 'But it isn't fair,' have a bite to it.
LewRockwell.com
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| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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All government intervention impedes investment and the creation of new opportunities for good-paying work. It is more urgent than ever that the government get out of the way of the productive people of this country. The worst thing would be even more interference in the form of new trade restrictions. What we need is full free trade -- domestically and internationally.
The Future of Freedom Foundation |
| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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| The intelligence official ... suggested that not a single defence intelligence expert backed Tony Blair's most contentious claims on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction .... Brian Jones, the former leading expert on WMD in the Ministry of Defence, declared that Downing Street's dossier ... was 'misleading' about Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological capability. |
| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Federal and state wildlife officials raided Indiana's largest private hunting preserve and confiscated its business records, authorities and the owner confirmed .... 'I have no clue what
they are looking for. This is all political stuff; that's all it is,'" said the owner. |
| venerdì, febbraio 06, 2004
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Gregory Schneider's collection of essays is a must read principally for its emphasis on past and present diversity within the conservative movement.
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| mercoledì, febbraio 04, 2004
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger abandoned a core campaign promise in mid-December when he signed a fiscal-reform package that did not include a constitutional spending limit. The plan includes a bond to cover the state’s current budget deficit, but replaces the spending limit with a provision that merely strengthens California’s existing balanced budget amendment.
Heartland Institute |
| lunedì, febbraio 02, 2004
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Even before the release of the new federal budget, President Bush's budget chief Josh Bolten has begun the damage control. On one flank, the president is trying to ward off the increasing despair in his conservative base caused by his huge spending increases and big deficits. On another flank, the mainstream media are beginning to run front-page stories on the administration's fiscal irresponsibility.
Cato Institute |
| lunedì, febbraio 02, 2004
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Higher rates will serve two purposes. First, as already argued, they will slow the pace of investment in areas where investment has been too rapid and where inflationary problems are already apparent. Second, they will increase the private savings by providing increased incentives to save. Home building will not "collapse" as the Fed withdraws liquidity; higher interest rates will encourage private savers to increase their savings, which will then fund an appropriate and sustainable amount of new investment. Further, since rates on CD's and other fixed income assets will increase, savers will be rewarded with high incomes, which they can spend or invest.
by Dom Armentano - CATO INSTITUTE |
| lunedì, febbraio 02, 2004
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Berlusconi da tempo combatte una battaglia personale contro il potere giudiziario, un’istituzione in cui la sinistra esercita un’influenza pervasiva. Ma il processo non è il suo unico problema. Presto o tardi, dovrà spiegare agli elettori perché non è stato in grado di mantenere le sue promesse elettorali.
di Alberto Mingardi - Isitituto Bruno Leoni |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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In today's highly politicized world, a firm's profitability depends not only on its sales, but also on the severity of the regulatory environment in which it operates. In effect, business operates in two worlds: the private market (geared to attract Joan Consumer) and the political arena (which seeks Joan Citizen's support in fending off adverse regulatory or tax policies). A well-designed PR plan would both expand sales and enhance a firm's moral legitimacy.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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We have seen the temperature rise along the corridors of power in recent days as finance ministers, central bankers, and others have clamored to have their say on the current disruption in international capital and goods markets. This disruption has its roots in America's
Military Keynesianism and the Asian Mercantilist response it has elicited.
Mises Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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If you're traveling through Switzerland this summer, don't be surprised if you come across a road sign saying 'You are entering Schaffhausen. Millionaires welcome here.'" Find out why in this interesting commentary.
Tech Central Station |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Arnold is the best GOP communicator since the Great Communicator himself. Given the leftward tilt of California politics, Arnold has only two real assets: the bully pulpit and the veto pen. If he uses both, this Austrian-born Mr. Universe has a unique chance to break the Left's vise grip on Sacramento -- and put the bloom back on the state that was once, and not so long ago, golden.
Cato Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Just released, the 2004 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, provides a country-by-country analysis of economic growth, measured against 10 categories of economic freedom, including tax rates, regulations, government intervention in the economy, private property rights and the fiscal burden of government.
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| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Thus, if the ruling elite has its way, and it shall, as the American people have no opinion on the matter, or can even be bothered to think about it, we are faced with at least half a century of intermittent war and a further augmentation of the national security state that
has been draining our wealth like a voracious vampire since 1950. There is no secret as to how they will finance it -- by borrowing and inflating.
Mises Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Our preferred solution is a true free market in health care, one where anyone is permitted to provide any service he wishes, with consumers free to evaluate providers. But, indoctrinated with the notion that it is only government licensing that protects us from quacks, many Americans consider it absurd to argue that everyone should be legally allowed to practice medicine.
Foundation for Economic Education
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| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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One reaction to President Bush's plan for a permanent moon base and a trip to Mars is, 'Great! It's about time NASA stopped going around in circles in low Earth orbit and returns to real science and exploration.' Unfortunately, there's not a snowball's chance in the sun that the same agency that currently is constructing a downsized version of its originally planned space station, decades behind schedule, at 10 times its original budget, a few hundred miles up in orbit, will be able to build a station several hundred thousand miles away on the moon. If Americans are again to walk on the moon and make their way to Mars, NASA will actually need to be downsized and the private sector allowed to lead the way to the next frontier.
Cato Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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In our age of passionate longing for government omnipotence the formula laissez faire is in disrepute. Public opinion now considers it a manifestation both of moral depravity and of the utmost ignorance.
by Ludwig Von Mises |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Perhaps Kay’s findings will finally cause the American public to heed the Iraq war critics call to hold the administration accountable for the deaths of more than 500 American service personnel and countless innocent Iraqis (which, strangely, the American government cannot seem to estimate).
INDIPENDENT INSTITUTE |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Is the climate really warming? Weather satellites measuring atmospheric temperatures day in and day out from pole to pole report only a minute rise that extrapolates to about half a degree Centigrade by 2100. Is this rise caused by human activities, like the burning of coal, oil, and gas? That's difficult to tell -- climate varies naturally both up and down, so it could be partly non-human.
Heartland Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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It should serve as a caution to conservatives, libertarians and limited government advocates that if history is any indicator, governments that pursue an aggressive, grandiose foreign policy have never held the limited government line at home. This makes sense if you think about it. If one is to believe that the U.S. military or the U.S. State Department can construct free, dynamic societies from the rubble of nations with no history or tradition of liberal institutions, it isn’t such a leap to think that the U.S. government can likewise run an efficient prescription drug program, welfare system, or job training program here at home
FOX NEWS |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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... The concept of markets as the most efficient processors of information goes back to Friedrich Hayek, but attempts to design markets specifically as forecasting ...
Financial Times |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Many states adopted regulations requiring health insurance companies to accept anyone who applied for coverage and charge everyone within each group the same rates regardless of their age, gender, lifestyle choices, or health status. These regulations, called guaranteed issue and community rating, were intended to force healthy people to subsidize less-healthy people, and to make it easier for people without health insurance to get back into the
system.
Heartland Institute
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| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Most people now realize the failure of public schools, even those who seek only to reorganize a bad system. Parents certainly realize this fact, since private and home schooling is again on the rise. Apparently, many people find that paying twice for education is better than receiving little education at all. Economic theory shows us that private businesses cater to the needs of diverse consumers far better than bureaucracies.
Mises Institute |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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The House and Senate intelligence committees have unearthed a series of failures in prewar intelligence on Iraq similar to those identified by former weapons inspector David Kay, leading them to believe that CIA analysts and their superiors did not seriously consider the possibility Saddam Hussein no longer possessed weapons of mass destruction, congressional officials said.
Washington Post |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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The U.S. military has released three teenage Taliban conscripts from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flying them to their Afghan homeland where resettlement workers are trying to reunite them with relatives or family friends, Pentagon officials said yesterday. The detention of the three youths had generated protests which contended that imprisoning children, especially for significant lengths of time, is inhumane.
Washington Post |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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In front of the entire nation, the Republican House leadership dispensed with the empty platitudes about being the party of limited government and demonstrated that either they do not believe in such values as limited government, individual liberty, and free enterprise ... or they ... abandoned these principles to score a few short-term political points for the Bush administration.
by LewRockwell.com |
| domenica, febbraio 01, 2004
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Until recently, estate taxes (also known as death taxes) were the almost exclusive headache of the super rich, their tax attorneys, and their estate planners. But a strong economy, an ever-widening distribution of wealth--both good things--coupled with tax policy that has failed to keep up with economic growth have extended the reach of estate taxes well into middle-class America.
by HERITAGE FOUNDATION |
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