March 19th, 2009 by drs
by Michael D. Tanner
Michael D. Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society and other books.
This article appeared in the New York Post on February 13, 2009
“On the Dole Again”
Much of the “stimulus” bill is devoted to a backdoor undoing of one of Washington’s greatest achievements of recent years – welfare reform.
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March 15th, 2009 by drs
Here is a very interesting video on the Federal Reserve, Money and Banking in America. It was produced by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The complete transcript of the video is available here: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve: the Complete Transcript
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood “The Monster”. But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.
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