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** WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2020
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Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action ([link removed]) [1949]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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May 6, 2020
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In his great little book The Law, the 19th-century French libertarian legislator Frederic Bastiat wrote one of the most profound insights on welfare-state socialism ever penned: “The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.” Bastiat was one of the first libertarian writers I came across when I discovered libertarianism. ...
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