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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State

by John W. Whitehead September 25, 2015

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman Caught ...

Low Interest Rates Cannot Save a House of Cards

by Richard M. Ebeling September 24, 2015

When is the price of some marketable good or service at or near zero? When either the supply of it is so plentiful that virtually any demand, no matter how great, can be satisfied. Or when no matter how large or small the supply of it may be, ...

The Libertarian Angle: FDR’s New Deal Destroyed Free Enterprise

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 22, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard discuss the New Deal and its effects that we are still feeling today. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Gambling with Federalism

by Laurence M. Vance September 21, 2015

The relation between the fifty states and the national government under the U.S. Constitution is a federal one in which power is divided and shared between the states and the national government. Or at least it is supposed to be a federal relationship. James Madison succinctly explained this simple federal system of government in Federalist No. 45: The powers delegated by the ...

Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead September 17, 2015

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society ...

Austrian Economics, Monetary Freedom, and America’s Economic Roller Coaster

by Richard M. Ebeling September 16, 2015

For over a decade, now, the American economy has been on an economic rollercoaster, of an economic boom between 2003 and 2008, followed by a severe economic downturn, and with a historically slow and weak recovery starting in 2009 up to the present. Before the dramatic stock market decline of 2008-2009, many were the political and media pundits who were ...

The Libertarian Angle: What Ever Happened to Silver Coins?

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 15, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard discuss monetary policy and the nature of money. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11

by John W. Whitehead September 10, 2015

“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta What began with the

The Human Cost of Socialism in Power

by Richard M. Ebeling September 9, 2015

The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history. Some historians have estimated that as many as 200 million people may have died as part of the dream of creating a collectivist “Paradise on Earth.” Making ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Intellectual Roots of Free Enterprise

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 8, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard give a short overview of the the history of economic thought the philosophy of individual liberty. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Why Are Republicans So Upset about Obamacare?

by Laurence M. Vance September 3, 2015

Although Republicans have talked incessantly about repealing Obamacare since the day it became the law of the land, they were for Republican versions of it before they were against it. They are for Republican versions of it right now. And they wholeheartedly support government intervention into the health-care and health-insurance industries that are even worse. In the recent Supreme Court ...

The Libertarian Angle – Presidential Race Follies and the Prospects for Liberty

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 2, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and guest co-host Richard M. Ebeling talk about the current debates among current candidates in the presidential race The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.