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• Jan Ernst Matzeliger: The Henry Ford of Shoes
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Monday, February 1, 2021

  At the age of 19, he spent his savings sailing the world on a merchant ship before he settled two years later in Philadelphia—without a job or friends and speaking only Dutch.

  In 1877 he took a job in a shoe factory, and just six years later he patented an invention that revolutionized the industry. 

• Human Ingenuity Is the Key to Defeating the Coronavirus
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  Gonzalo Schwarz | Friday, April 3, 2020

  Now more than ever, the government should not be erecting barriers to innovation. As economist Julian Simon has pointed out, our ultimate resource is human ingenuity. This is no different in the fight against the coronavirus.

• New York Lawmakers Want to Screen Gun Buyers’ Social Media History for Hate Speech
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  Jon Miltimore | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

  Under the legislation, gun purchasers would have up to three years of their social media history potentially scrutinized by authorities. The internet search history of prospective gun buyers would face searches going back up to one year.

• Liberty: Legacy of Truth
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  Leonard E. Read | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Liberty: Legacy of Truth! 1. Liberty: Legacy of Truth There are three parts to truth: first the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of […]
• To Free or Freeze
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  Leonard E. Read |
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of To Free or Freeze! 1. How Loose The Talk Though his beginnings be but poor and low, Thank God, a man can grow! —Florence Earle Coates How much is really known about political economy, the principal subject of our concern? Many proclaim […]
• The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation
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  Ludwig von Mises | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation! Acknowledgments These lectures, delivered by Ludwig von Mises at the Foundation for Economic Education in the summer of 1951, would not exist if not for Bettina Bien Greaves, who took them down word for […]
• Why Big Data Won’t Save Central Planners from the Knowledge Problem
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  Matthew Kelly Peter Lewin | Wednesday, April 11, 2018

  Some enthusiasts even speculate that Big Data will render markets obsolete, enabling central planning of the economy. Big Data is more than a buzzword, but its potential is often wildly overstated.

• Does the Debt Ceiling Mean Anything?
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  Antony Davies James R. Harrigan | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

  Does the debt ceiling even mean anything? It’s like a credit limit on your credit card, but one which the borrower (the US government) gets to set for itself. Moreover, it’s most likely that the government has been borrowing way above the ceiling but simply doesn’t make it official until after the debt ceiling is raised: as it always is. Economists Antony Davies and James Harrigan discuss what this means for the taxpayer and for the economy.

• Prosperity through Freedom
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  Lawrence Fertig | Wednesday, July 26, 2017
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Anthem! Introduction This collection appeared as the postwar liberty movement in America was beginning to mature. FEE had been founded in 1946, and had accomplished amazing things in a decade and a half. It took a brilliant idea and turned it into a real […]
• Who Was the Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment?
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  Gary M. Galles | Saturday, February 4, 2017

  February 5 marks the birth of the American who had the greatest hand in what became the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Unfortunately, “one of the most passionate and effective protectors of American rights” is too-little remembered today.