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fifty links to our healthcare future

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1452, 5th April, 2010
Go here to see if you’d like to browse the fruits of socialist medicine and see a pretty good guess at where US healthcare is headed.
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on the recent house bill, socialism, etc.

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1347, 22nd March, 2010
As most likely all of you know, there was a very significant healthcare bill passed yesterday.  A friend of mine went so far as to say (via facebook), Hurray, the United States government just declared the Church is officially off the hook in regards to the care of the sick and infirm. Now all we [...]
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communism, the free market, and the early church

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1821, 8th March, 2010
In a conversation between myself and the legendary Joel Watts, we were discussing socialism versus free market economics.  And brother Joel said the following: And what exactly are ’socialist motives’? You mean live feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and having all things common in a community so that everyone is equal? Now, Joel did [...]
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now, this is no good

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0037, 2nd March, 2010
Here’s the raw data. Here’s the government conclusion. Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but here’s what I see when I look at the situation:
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an economic perspective on amy bishop

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1945, 17th February, 2010
Full disclosure:  I’m a beneficiary of the public school system, and doing quite well under it.  I think being a professor one day would be marvelous, and, God willing, the day may come when I’m thankful for the tenure system.  But today I’m going to try to look at it from a colder economic perspective. [...]
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more on venezuelan currency devaluation

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1725, 11th January, 2010
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. — Revelation 6:6 Yesterday, I commented on Venezuela’s recent currency devaluation.  Now, the Mises Blog has chimed [...]
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