A New Way to Celebrate Free Market Capitalism
Heroes of Capitalism I emphasize free market capitalism, to distinguish it from the cronyism and interventionism that has played so large a role in the current crisis: the Federal Reserve,…
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This and That
I’ve been in Amman, Jordan for meetings with publishers, writers, and others involved in Arabic publishing and will travel on in the very wee hours of the morning to Istanbul,…
Andrei Illarionov on a Stock Market Crash
From the Moscow Times: “Fighting Financial Fires With Blini”
Error Corrected
An error in a column by Martin Masse in the National Post of Canada was corrected: Editor’s Note: Scholars at the Cato Institute have not supported Washington’s $700-billion financial bailout…
Crackdown on Southpark in Russia
In Kommersant, “Today they are going after Kenny, tomorrow they will go after you!” Hat Tip: Natalie Vogel (The Russian state authorities are also looking into cracking down on “emo…
And Will on the Bailout (and on the Cato Institute)
“Bailout on Wheels”
The Bailout
Prof. Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University on CNN: “Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer”
A liberdade corretamente compreendida
My lecture at the Liberal International meeting, “Freedom Properly Understood,” is now available in Portuguese: “A liberdade corretamente compreendida.” (Thank you, Magno!) A German translation is forthcoming.
The “Financial Crisis”….
In Forbes, “Bernanke’s Hype,” by David R. Henderson David Cay Johnston, formerly of the New York Times, interviewed on NPR on the bailout, “Rescue Mission” Hat tip to Jeff Hummel