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Is There A Problem? Blame Global Warming, December 24, 2007
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George Reisman's News Commentaries
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For Reisman's most recent news commentaries and essays, please see http://georgereismansblog.blogspot.com
April 2011
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How to Eliminate Social Security and Medicare, April 6, 2011
January 2011
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Where Profit Comes From, January 10, 2011
November 2010
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Raising Taxes Is Not Reducing Government Spending, November 21, 2011
October 2010
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Natural Resources and the Environment, October 27, 2010
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Boom-Bust in Microcosm,October 26, 2010
November 2009
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A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery, November 22, 2009
October 2009
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Maoist in the White House, October 18, 2009
JULY 2009
JUNE 2009
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GENERAL MOTORS, RIP, June 2, 2009.
MAY 2009
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Google Relents—Finally, May 31, 2009.
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Letter to Krugman, May 4, 2009.
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Injustice as Routine, May 1, 2009.
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Attempt to Silence This Blog, May 1, 2009.
APRIL 2009
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Fallout from Declaring CO2 a Pollutant (A Potential News Dispatch from a World Going Mad), April 21, 2009.
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“Green” Jobs, April 21, 2009.
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Standing Keynesianism on Its Head: as Employment Increases in Response to a Fall in Wage Rates, the Rate of Profit Rises, Not Falls, April 15, 2009.
MARCH 2009`
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“Change” Under Obama: From Dumb to Dumber and From Bad to Worse, March 7, 2009.
FEBRUARY 2009
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Economic Recovery Requires Capital Accumulation Not Government “Stimulus Packages,” February 21 and 22, 2009.
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New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd Wants Soviet-Style Show Trials with Capitalist Defendants in Shackles, February 7, 2009.
JANUARY 2009
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Does Obama Want to Lynch Rush Limbaugh?, January 28, 2009.
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Falling Prices Are Not Deflation But the Antidote to Deflation, January 9, 2009.
NOVEMBER 2008
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Larry Summers: Heavyweight Centrist or Lightweight Leftist? November 30, 2008.
OCTOBER 2008
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The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Financial Crisis, October 21, 2008
AUGUST 2008
- Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on Taxing Oil Companies and Giving the Money to Others, August 30, 2008.
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008
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The Nature of Environmentalism, February 21, 2008. A Word to Environmentalists, February 19, 2008.
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A Word to Environmentalists, February 19, 2008.
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Environmentalism Is Recycled Communism and Nazism, February 17, 2008.
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Standing Keynesian GDP on Its Head: Saving Not Consumption as the Main Source of Spending, February 13, 2008.
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Re: A Creditors' Protection Bill: The Legitimacy of Inserting a Gold Clause in Existing Contracts, February 3, 2008.
January 2008
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A Creditor’s Protection Bill, January 27, 2008
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Credit Expansion, Economic Inequality, and Stagnant Wages, January 12, 2008
December 2007
November 2007
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If Abortion Really Were Murder, Friday, November 30, 2007.
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Would Hillary’s Election Violate The Two-Term Limit?, November 8, 2007
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In Support of the Concept of Intellectual Property,, November 7, 2007.
August 2007
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The Housing Bubble and the Credit Crunch, August 10, 2007.
July 2007
- Gore: Ignorant or Dishonest?, July 1, 2007.
May 2007
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Global Warming Is Not a Threat but the Environmentalist Response to It Is (Full Version), May 30, 2007.
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Environmentalism in the Light of Menger and Mises, May 27, 2007.
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The Arithmetic of Environmentalist Devastation, May 23, 2007.
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Environmentalist Bugaboo Loses Support, May 19, 2007.
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Some New York Times’ Thoughts for the Day Concerning Capitalism, May 15, 2007.
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The Scandalous Student Loan Scandal, May 13, 2007.
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Environmentalist Zen, May 12, 2007.
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After the Hideous Light Bulbs, May 8, 2007.
- Say No to the Hideous Light Bulbs, May 3, 2007.
April 2007
- It’s About Energy, Not Climate, April 23, 2007.
- No Representation for Taxation, April 20, 2007.
- Keeping Up With the Party Line at The New York Times/Pravda, April 18, 2007.
- An Update to Henry Hazlitt’s “Uruguay: Welfare State Gone Wild." April 17, 2007.
March 2007
- Global Warming: Environmentalism’s Threat of Hell on Earth, March 13, 2007.
February 2007
- Hugo Chavez: Collectivist Throwback, February 18, 2007.
- The Environmentalist Noose Is Tightening, February 9, 2007.
January 2007
- The State Against Economic Law: the Case of Minimum Wage Legislation, January 21, 2007.
- The New York Times Pushes the Doctrine of Class Warfare, January 12, 2007.
- The New York Times Pushes the Green Party Line, January 6, 2007.
December 2006
- Where The New York Times Is Coming From, December 29, 2006.
- General Augusto Pinochet Is Dead, December 16, 2006.
- You Can’t Have Trans Fats Because They’re Bad for You, December 8, 2006.
- Pick Your Gender and We’ll Enforce Your Choice, Says New York City’s Board of Health, December 1, 2006.
November 2006
- Penn and Teller Send Recycling to the Dump, November 25, 2006.
- Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture, November 17, 2006.
- Two Ice Ages, With Up to 16 Times the Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere, November 8, 2006.
- Freedom of Choice in New York City: Diet, No; Gender, Yes, November 7, 2006.
- Britain’s Stern Review on Global Warming: It Could Be Environmentalism’s Swan Song, November 1, 2006.
October 2006
- The Green Business Racket: Con Customers, Cut Corners, Boost Profits, October 24, 2006.
- Saving Versus Hoarding, October 17, 2006.
- A Root Cause of the Failure of Contemporary Education, October 10, 2006.
- Stiglitz in The Times: A Study in Confusion, October 3, 2006.
September 2006
- Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism, September 29, 2006.
- Armed and Dangerous, September 24, 2006.
- Britain’s Royal Society Seeks to Squelch Opposition to Greens on Global Warming, September 23, 2006.
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Betting California, September 16, 2006.
- The Looming Lactation-Station Crisis and How to Solve It, September 9, 2006.
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Competition, European Style, September 8, 2006.
- Intertwined Insanities, September 4, 2006
August 2006
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Incitement to Class War at The New York Times/Pravda, August 28, 2006.
- The Austrian Economics that Most of Today’s “Austrians” Don’t Know, August 15, 2006.
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Mining for the Next Million Years, August 14, 2006.
- Free-Market Science vs. Government Science, August 7, 2006.
July 2006
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Wage Rates and Purchasing Power, July 31, 2006.
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How Environmentalism Raises Profits at the Expense of Wages, July 24, 2006.
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How Government Budget Deficits Reduce Wages and Raise Profits, July 17, 2006.
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No Fourth of July Celebration at The New York Times/Pravda, July 4, 2006.
June 2006
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CO2 Science’s Finding on Global Warming: A Marxist-Type Response, June 29, 2006.
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Mutualism: A Philosophy for Thieves, June 18, 2006.
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Not Feldstein’s Gasoline Rationing Scheme but Economic Freedom Will Improve the Environment and Promote National Security, June 7, 2006.
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Something to Cheer at The New York Times, June 6, 2006.
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The Flagellation of the Pursuit of Happiness, June 5, 2006.
- Nocera Replies, June 4, 2006.
- Does the Name “Ayn Rand” Ring a Bell? June 3, 2006.
May 2006
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The Sorry State of Our Union, May 28, 2006.
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Platonic Competition, Part II, May 18, 2006.
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Platonic Competition, Part I, May 17, 2006.
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Is Bernanke An Admirer of Galbraith? May 11, 2006.
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Gasoline at 10 Cents a Gallon and Falling, May 10, 2006.
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“Price Gouging”: Setting the Record Straight, May 7, 2006.
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Where Has “Austrian” Economics Eliminated Poverty? May 2, 2006.
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Does Krugman Read The New York Times? May 2, 2006.
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Galbraith's Neo-Feudalism, May 1, 2006.
April 2006
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The Real Friends and Enemies of Wage Earners: An Intellectual Challenge to the Left, April 26, 2006.
- Immigration Plus Welfare State Equal Police State, April 10, 2006.
- First, Witchcraft Trials; Now, Impending Health Insurance Fiasco: Massachusetts Leads the Way, April 5, 2006.
- They Still Don’t Know What They’re Doing, But They Want to Do It at the Point of a Gun, April 1, 2006.
March 2006
- Different Flag, Different Lyrics, But the Same Old Tune, March 31, 2006
- Collectivism, Climate Change, and Economic Freedom, March 28, 2006
- The Environmentalists Are Trying to Frighten the Natives, March 25, 2006
- My Pepperdine Syllabi, One "Micro" and One "Macro," March 23, 2006
- Production Versus Consumption, March 17, 2006
- The Global Warming Bugaboo, March 8, 2006
- Ayn Rand Answers, The Best of Her Q&A, Edited by Robert Mayhew, New American Library, 2005. x + 241 pp., March 4, 2006
February 2006
- Papiere, Bitte (Papers, Please), February 21, 2006
- Double Takes in Reading Yesterday’s (February 17, 2006) New York Times, February 18, 2006
- Socialized Medicine and Rationing, February 16, 2006
- Who Offends Islam?, February 9, 2006
- Ready to Kill Over Cartoons, February 5, 2006
- Dictator Mentality at The New York Times, February 07, 2006
- Oil, Big Business, and "Monopoly," February 2, 2006
January 2006
- To Fight Corruption, Limit Government, January 30, 2006
- The New York Times on Health Care Costs, January 30, 2006
2005
- The Union Hunt for More Victims, July 05, 2005
- Envy Unleashed at the New York Times. June 6, 2005.
- Kill the Prescription Drug Benefit. March 1, 2005.
- Social Security Reform: A Free-Market Alternative. February 21, 2005.
2004
- Reducing Poverty by Reducing Government. October 11, 2004.
- Reply to Schumer and Roberts, January 9, 2004
2003
- Sins of Businessmen, Crimes of Politicians. September 22, 2003.
- The Free Market and Job Safety. January 22, 2003.
2002
- News Report: California’s Blackouts Caused by Demons, September 24, 2002.
- Worldcom as Piker: Profit Inflation by the U.S. Government. August 12, 2002.
2001
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A Simple Super-Weapon Against Middle-East Terrorism: Economic Freedom for the U.S. Energy Industry. September 16, 2001.
- Greens Versus Energy. This article was originally published on the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It was subsequently reprinted, in slightly abridged form, in The Orange County Register on June 10, 2001, under the title "Environmentalists assume role of pests in our society.
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A Free Market Would Avoid Blackouts Now. This article originally appeared on May 2, 2001, on the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute under the title "Avoid Blackouts Now" and was subsequently reprinted in The Orange County Register, on May 6, 2001, under the title "Raise prices now to avoid blackouts."
- A Wage Earner’s Case for Repealing the Inheritance Tax (February 14, 2001). This article simultaneously appeared on the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute under the title "A Wage Earner Against the Estate Tax" and was subsequently published in The Orange County Register, on Feb. 18, 2001, under the title "A Wage Earner's Plea for `Death Tax' Repeal."
2000
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California Screaming, Under Government
Blows
(December 22, 2000)
This article originally appeared on line on the on the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. An abridged version, under the title "California's Energy Meltdown," subsequently appeared in the March issue of the von Mises Institute's The Free Market. The original title of the article was inspired by Paul Krugman’s New York Times piece "California Screaming."
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Soaring Electric Rates in Southern California (July 25, 2000)
This article subsequently appeared in The Orange County Register, on Aug. 13, 2000, under the title “Free Market in Electricity Is As Yet Untapped.” The reprint appears in Adobe Acrobat format.
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The
Meaning of the Government’s Proposal to Break Up Microsoft
(April 30, 2000)
This article subsequently appeared in The Orange County Register, on May 8, 2000, under the title "The Breakup of Microsoft."
- Why the Price of Oil Is Surging (April 2, 2000). This article appeared in the Commentary Section of The Orange County Register, Sunday, April 2, 2000.
- A Brief for Microsoft, Part Two. This article appeared in The Orange County Register, March 14, 2000.
- A Brief for Microsoft, Part One. This article appeared in The Orange County Register, March 13, 2000.
- Is the U.S. Government Cheating in the Consumer Price Index? (March 6, 2000). This article also appeared in The Orange County Register, on the editorial page, on Wednesday, March 8, 2000, under the title “Paying the price.”
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Update to When Will the
Bubble Burst?: It May Be Bursting Now, and Faulty
Economic Analysis Could Cost Investors Dearly (February 26, 2000).
1999
- When Will the Bubble Burst? (August 7, 1999).
- No Imperial Presidency (January 22, 1999)
1998
- Microsoft and Its Enemies: Which Is the Monopolist? (Sept. 27, 1998)
- Global Crisis and the Survival of Capitalism (Sept. 6, 1998)
- The Line-Item Veto Is A Bad Idea (Feb. 14, 1998)
1997
- A Gold Standard Today (June 23, 1997)
- Only A Gold Dollar Will End Deficits (Feb. 17, 1997)
- Environmentalism's Malaria Holocaust (Jan. 11, 1997)