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Recommended Readings for Independence Day

These were my favorite “Independence Day” readings for this year: The Declaration of Independence – by Thomas Jefferson Uncelebrating the Fourth – by Harry Browne My second July 4 as a Christian anarchist – by Nellis Lake Flag Waving Is Not My Kind of Patriotism – by Robert Higgs Enjoy!

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No Government Flag-Waving

Bob Higgs on being an actual patriot.

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Business confidence, defined

Robert Higgs includes a lengthy excerpt from a 1939 book by Raymond Moley called After Seven Years. Moley was a close adviser to President Roosevelt, but became disillusioned during the early part of Roosevelt's first term. This excerpt is an...

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A New Deal Insider's Damning Account of FDR's Policies

Over at Liberty & Power, distinguished economist Robert Higgs highlights some very damning passages from New Deal "Brain Truster" Raymond Moley's 1939 book After Seven Years . As Higgs puts it, Moley gives "one of the clearest, best informed accounts ever written of the problem of regime uncertainty in the 1930s." In other words, Moley admits that the New...

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Should Fearmongers Be Held Liable for Damages?

... Klein and Alex Tabarrok show on our related website, FDAReview.org and in related commentary ; and Robert Higgs’s extensive research supports, the FDA’s practices have rather resulted in untold unnecessary deaths by keeping life-saving technology and drugs from the doctors and patients they could have helped — economists’ estimates vary from hundreds of thousands to millions of lives...