The Unbroken Window

Chances are that you are familiar with the names Bono, Bob Geldof and Jeffrey Sachs. Big personalities with big ideas for aiding the world’s poorest people are hard to overlook. The Norwegian Nobel Committee often recognizes visionaries with ambitious, expensive remedies for the world’s ills (e.g. George Marshall and his eponymous aid plan to Europe [...]

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My favorite holiday is upon us. It is my favorite for two reasons. First and foremost – we live in an extraordinarily wealthy and relatively free society, which means our level of security in the United States is unimaginably high compared to what our predecessors experienced. Second, the holiday celebrates the importance of property rights [...]

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Milton Friedman has passed away. I doubt I’d be an economist were in not for his incredible achievements. And there perhaps has been no better friend of liberty. While he will be missed, his ideas will endure – at least he lived to see the day that proved him right.
Here is a passage that summarizes [...]

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I am very frighted by the prospect of nationalized health care – many experts don’t believe it is politically feasible, but I wonder.
This is what Brad DeLong had to say about Hilary in the White House:
My two cents’ worth–and I think it is the two cents’ worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration [...]

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Sports Illustrated ran a column on how unfair it is that private high schools give scholarships to attract football players in New Jersey and elsewhere. Here is a letter I sent in response:
Editor
Sports Illustrated
The state of New Jersey and its towns lavish more money on public schools than any system in the United States , [...]

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It shouldn’t shock me that so many people get worked up over election day. When there are enormous rents to be had and to shower upon your cronies, who can blame people? Keep in mind however that this election, and all those in the future, is NOT about Democrats versus Republicans, or your ideas versus [...]

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