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• Clashes over Land Roil Chinas Poor
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, March 10, 2006

  “A chief grievance is the practice of local officials, developers, and banks that take and build on land by kicking out farmers or the poor–and relocating them with little recompense or prospects.” (Christian Science Monitor, Friday)
  
  Chinarsquo;s people need the rule of law and protection of private property.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  A Capitalist Party in China? by John Welborn
  

• Demonstrations Against Muhammad Cartoons Take Lives
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, February 7, 2006
  #8220;Afghan troops opened fire on demonstrators yesterday, leaving at least four dead, while Iranian police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters hurling stones and firebombs at the Danish Embassy, in Tehran, as anger mounted over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.#8221; (Irish Examiner, Tuesday)
  
  The difference between expression and firebombing is as basic as it gets.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  #8220;A Legal System for a Free Society#8221; by Bertel M. Sparks
• Greenspan Opposes Wal-Mart Move into Banking
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, January 26, 2006
  #8220;Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is opposing a regulatory loophole that allows corporations to own banks, according to a media report Thursday. Greenspan's opposition, contained in a 12-page letter to Congress, thrusts him into the controversy over an attempt by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to use the loophole to establish a bank in Utah, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.#8221; (MarketWatch, Thursday)
  
  “Closing a loophole”: Washington-speak for squelching a bit of freedom overlooked by the regulators.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  #8220;The Forgotten Private Banker#8221; by Richard Sylla
• Rationing to Begin in Voucher Schools
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, December 28, 2005
  “A rationing plan for enrolling students in more than 120 schools in Milwaukee's private school voucher program will be imposed for the 2006-'07 school year, the state Department of Public Instruction said Tuesday in a letter to administrators of those schools. . . . Key advocates for the voucher program said if the rationing is imposed, hundreds, if not thousands, of students in voucher schools would be unable to continue in or to enroll in schools in the program, and substantial damage would be done to some of the schools.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wednesday)
  
  If given an option, parents opt for choice in education. Now how about giving them a real choice?
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “The Political Economy of Educational Vouchers” by Dwight R. Lee
• $9.4 million in HUD grants to target homelessness in Buffalo, NY
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  “Programs and agencies geared at stamping out homelessness in Erie County will get $9.4 million in 2006 from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. . . . The grants, to be announced locally Thursday, include nearly $3.7 million for new projects and services. ” (Buffalo News, Wednesday)
  
  Government grants aren't the answer, incentives are.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Throwing Money at Social Problems” by James L. Payne
• The Great Outsourcing Scare of 2004
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  Jude Blanchette | Tuesday, March 1, 2005
  Last year a protectionist wind filled the air. All the good jobs, Americans were told, were disappearing faster than one could say “New Delhi.” On opening his local newspaper, the typical American would find articles alerting, “As job exports rise, some economists rethink the mathematics of free trade.” Or: “Thomson Trims 1,535 Jobs by Shifting […]
• A Ton of Prevention: How the FDA Threatens Vaccine Supplies
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  Arthur Foulkes | Saturday, March 1, 2003
  After two troubled years, the supply of flu vaccine was plentiful in 2002. But toward the end of November, after nearly all flu shots had been given, one of the three companies making injectable vaccine said it was dropping out of the business, raising immediate concerns of greater scarcity in the future. The news was […]
• The Rise of the West
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  Robert Higgs | Monday, July 1, 2002
  Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm. Not even those at the peaks of social status and political power could enjoy the creature comforts and consumer delights that “poor” people take for granted in the West today. At times, certain populations fared somewhat better—in ancient Greece […]
• The Paradox of Carnegie Libraries
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  Chris Cardiff | Monday, October 1, 2001
  Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls and a vice president of AOL. Neither AOL nor his family necessarily endorses his views. People with a weak grasp of history are aghast when someone questions one of their fundamental assumptions. Questioning the public-goods theory of government-owned-and-operated libraries seems to shut down a conversation […]
• It’s Time to Stop the Prejudice against Mergers and Acquisitions
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  Kimberlee Josephson | Saturday, January 27, 2024

  The Biden Administration seems to be painting all mergers and acquisitions in a negative light. But “big is bad” is a very simplistic way to think about the economy.