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• Why the SEC Is Terrified of Cryptocurrency
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  Josie Wales | Tuesday, August 1, 2017

  Nothing scares the government more than something it can’t control, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed this week that it is terrified of cryptocurrencies – as well it should be.

• Why the English Major Is Dying
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  Mark Hamilton | Monday, February 27, 2017

  Colleges and universities have begun to structure their curriculum mainly to keep the student loan money rolling in, often ignoring rigor – hence the lesser need for full-time teachers. The somewhat predictable result has been declining English major enrollments in the US.

• Castro Was Monstrous, and So Is Our Embargo
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  Alice Salles | Wednesday, November 30, 2016

  Instead of looking at the details of Obama’s decisions and how Cuba runs its own economy, the public prefers to panic over what the President-elect has said. How about taking a hard look at what the current president has enabled, which will allow the incoming president to be even more of a corporate hack than he is?

• How College Costs Lie to Us
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  Hayden Padgett | Friday, September 23, 2016

  Federal aid awards have kept pace with rising enrollment figures, thereby allowing students and their parents to ignore rising tuition costs.

• #37 – If FDR’s New Deal Didn’t End the Depression, Then It Was World War II that Did
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  Burton W. Folsom | Friday, December 26, 2014

  Wars aren’t cures for depressions. They simply divert manpower and resources away from what consumers want to what government wants to win the conflict.

• Recommended Articles, Books, and Websites on Environmental Policy
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  Zeb Frye | Monday, November 2, 2009
  The following resources are excellent for research and background information on Environmental Policy!
• The Beth A. Hoffman Memorial Scholarship Fund
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, December 4, 2008
  

  For decades our esteemed colleague Beth A. Hoffman, who passed away suddenly December 1, was intimately involved in FEE's popular student summer seminars. Few students left a seminar without getting to know Beth and deeply appreciating her thoughtfulness and help. From the planning stages to the actual event, Beth's imprint on our summer programs has been huge and indelible.
  
  We wish to honor her in a way that speaks to her first love — reaching young minds for liberty — and does so for many years to come. Accordingly, and with the approval of her husband, Peter, and son, Ted, we are pleased to announce the Beth Hoffman Memorial Scholarship Fund. This fund will offer full and half scholarships to students from all over the world to attend our summer seminars. More…
  
  If you wish to make a contribution, you may donate via Paypal or donate via FEE's Standard donation form.

• Who Needs Evidence?
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  Sheldon Richman | Saturday, October 25, 2008
  Around the corner from FEE's offices, on Main Street in Irvington, N.Y., there's a life-size statue of Rip Van Winkle awakening from his 20-year slumber. After reading Jacob Weisberg's Newsweek and Slate columns this week, I feel as though I must have been asleep for an equally long time. According to Weisberg, editor in chief of Slate, the financial turmoil taking place worldwide is the fault of . . . libertarians. That must mean libertarians have been in a position to repeal generations of deep-seated government intervention in the financial and related industries, including the Federal Reserve system. That would have taken a long time, yet I don't recall reading that a libertarian revolution occurred in the United States. Surely it would have been in the newspapers. Hence, I must conclude that I, like old Rip, was slumbering all those years. I missed the revolution! It's the only possible explanation. Unless Weisberg is wrong. More . . .

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• Bailing Out Statism
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, September 12, 2008
  The key to understanding the saga of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the newly nationalized twin government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that dominate home financing — is this: They were created — intentionally — to distort the housing and mortgage markets. That is, government planners were not content to let voluntary exchange and spontaneous market forces […]
• Those Too-Consistent Libertarians
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 18, 2008
  The writer Michael Kinsley is very intelligent. He is also very glib, and his glibness often gets in the way of his intelligence. The expression “too clever by half” seems to have been coined for him. This is most obvious when he writes about the libertarian philosophy, as he did recently for the Washington Post website. More . . .
  
  

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