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FEE Lectures

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 17 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
The Foundation of Economic Education has posted many of the lectures from summer seminars here
These lectures cover a large range of topics and are all labeled and easy to find.  I attended The History and Liberty Seminar at Northwood University in Midland, MI and learned many things from each and every [...]

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A Lack of Unity: Lessons from Falkirk

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on 22 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Per Scriptum,
E. Wesley
We live in a time and place where there’s much excitement and protest about government spending.  But are we being as resourceful as possible?  Are we divided and scattered?  My mind goes back to another July 22nd in 1298 when the sky was less sunny than it is today, being filled with a [...]

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Interventions Breed Interventions – Bank On It

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on 20 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is a great letter to the editor from Don Boudreaux:
18 July 2009
Editor, The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Discussing today’s proposed increase in federal financial regulation, Paul Krugman describes “the creation of federal deposit insurance in the 1930s” as marking “the last time there was a comparable expansion of the [...]

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794 Years Ago…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 15 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Per Scriptum,
E. Wesley — Mackinac Center Intern
June 15th should go down in history as a cornerstone in the freedom movement in the West. Although the Magna Carta didn’t apply to all men and women when first crafted, it implemented the concept of fundamental human rights into political reality. In the West, it was arguably the [...]

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Lawrence Reed on the Great Depression

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on 4 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
Did FDR prolong or save us from the Great Depression?
On Nov. 27, 2008, Lawrence Reed, president emeritus of the Mackinac Center, was interviewed on “The Mike Rosen Show” on KOA in Denver, Colo. The show’s guest host that day was Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute. Reed discussed his monograph [...]

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