CIS Liberty & Society conference
The next “liberty & society conference” will be held in Sydney on 5-7 October 2012. If you’re a young person interested in libertarian ideas, then this is a must to do at some stage. For more details, click the image below.
Why We Shouldn’t Give Up (aka It’s a Wonderful Institute)
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, one of the US’s finest libertarian think tanks, and defiantly the coolest, put together this little clip for their 25th Anniversary Dinner earlier this year, which I had the great fortune of being able to attend.
A spoof on It’s A Wonderful Life, I think it’s a rather cute and amusing look at what would happen if we all just gave up – and why we should bother. Not exactly a professional production, but it is a nice lighthearted look at why free market institutions matter – and why we shouldn’t give up!
You can support similarly great institutions in Australia by donating to the Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute for Public Affairs.
Catallaxy Files- Where’s the co-ordination coming from do you suppose? May 24, 2013One more story in a growing list. They may not put you in a gulag but then they don’t need to. This is from Peggy Noonan at the WSJ. I have emphasised the four different federal agencies involved. Where do you suppose the co-ordination was coming from? The most important IRS story came not from [...]Steve Kates
- “A more sensible description of what grows the economy” May 24, 2013Julie Novak, from whose all-seeing eyes nothing remains hidden, came across this article by Martin L. Mazorra with the perfect title, “Goods Buy Goods“. This is, of course, the classical definition of Say’s Law. I reproduce the entire blog post below: One day last week, on CNBC’s Kudlow and Company, Larry gave his expert guest [...]Steve Kates
- Cutting to the Bone? Government budgetary spending on climate change May 24, 2013Among Martin Parkinson’s most inglorious forecasts as Treasury Secretary was that there was a global movement towards carbon taxes and other such measures that would rapidly lower carbon emissions. Only the EU is now following such practices and its measures are being weakened. Parkinson maintained that the Australian measures were less onerous than those i […]Alan Moran
- Where’s the co-ordination coming from do you suppose? May 24, 2013
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