AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS ADDICT

Busting The “Free College” Myth, Jonathan Newman, at mises.org. The cost doesn’t go away when something is labeled “free”. For the student, free means a new scholarship program. For the college, free means they can increase their prices. For us the tax payers, free means we’re screwed. Free means shifting the cost to someone else. To me free means the professors would teach for…….”free”.

ASU Class Holds Protest Instead Of Final Exam, by Conner Borgelt, at azcentral.com. Tax payers! Would “free college” make the present situation in our college education system better or worse?

Has A Rothbardian Infiltrated The Department Of Education, at targetliberty.com. This is a good thing

San Diego’s Experiment With Higher Minimum Wage: 4,000 Fewer Restaurant Jobs, at reason.com. This doesn’t surprise anyone, does it?

Run For Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming To Get You, by John Whitehead, at rutherford.org. Click on some of the examples in this article. You will be shocked at the abuses of power by Government officials.

Private Equity Sets Its Sites On New Funding Victim: Mom and Pop 401k’s, at zerohedge.com. Private Equity companies have destroyed many of the largest defined benefit pension plans. Now they want to try their hand at destroying defined contribution retirement plans, your 401k. They need a new source of money to fund their skimming operations.

Frederic Bastiat Is Right (Again), by Jeff Thomas, at mises.org. Protective tariffs don’t work. Bastiat told us this in the mid 1800s. The Smoot-Hawley Tariffs (along with other government interventions) helped turn the stock market crash of 1929 into the great depression. Trumps desire for tariffs on foreign goods is a bad idea.

GM Says Venezuela Has Seized Its Car Plant, at cnn.com. Venezuela’s incremental movement toward socialism over the years is almost complete. Since there are no property rights in a total socialist system, this seizure of property may be the final goose step in Venezuela’s march toward economic destruction.

Fannie And Freddie Finally Wake Up, by Doug French, at mises.org. These bad mortgages should have been liquidated (sold at a loss) when the housing bust happened in 08.

How Mises Converted Hayek From Socialism To A Supporter Of The Free Market, at economicpolicyjournal.com.

CELEBRATE EARTH DAY

On Earth Day, Let’s Celebrate The Benefits Of Fossil Fuels! This is my Earth Day post from two years ago.

GEORGE CARLIN- Can We Destroy The Planet?

Earth Day 2016, at austrianaddict.com.

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