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** FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2020
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The question of how many courses of action are open to a person is, of course, very important. But it is a different question from that of how far in acting he can follow his own plans and intentions, to what extent the pattern of his conduct is of his own design, directed toward ends of which he has been persistently striving rather than toward necessities created by others in order to make him do what they want. Whether he is free or not does not depend on the range of choice but on whether he can expect to shape his course of action in accordance with his present intentions, or whether somebody else has power so as to manipulate the conditions as to make him act according to that person's will rather than his own.
– Friedrich A. Hayek, [link removed] Constitution of Liberty ([link removed]) [1960]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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May 8, 2020
Argentina's Default Points Toward the U.S. Future ([link removed])
As the Washington, D.C., establishment and its acolytes in the U.S. mainstream press continue to celebrate the $4 trillion in new federal spending for the coronavirus crisis, Argentina has a sobering message for the American people. According to CNBC, the Argentine government is on the brink of defaulting on payment of its debt. Last month, the government submitted a ...
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