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against the libertarian pro-abortion argument

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2030, 5th April, 2010
You must read the conclusion at the end of this article before commenting. The more I try to think through the consequences of and reasons for various policies, the more libertarian I become. Libertarianism comes in varying degrees, but regardless of what exceptions one might add, the root of libertarianism is the belief that we [...]
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a bible puzzle

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1340, 21st March, 2010
The first cloud no bigger than a man’s hand of government grants of special privilege to farmers, came with the agricultural extension program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which had its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century, and was fully established in 1914. In 1916, the United States Warehouse Act imposed regulations [...]
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rothbard, inflation, money supply, etc.

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2227, 12th March, 2010
I’m currently reading Murray Rothbard’s  America’s Great Depression. In it, he makes a strong case for not measuring inflation not in the rising of prices, but rather in the increasing of the money supply independent of precious metal reserves.  The effect of this is that times where in an unmanipulated market would be causing prices [...]
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