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	<title>Colorado Liberty &#187; robert higgs</title>
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	<description>You Don&#039;t Need Permission To Be FREE!</description>
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		<title>Small Government Caused Our Current Problems???</title>
		<link>http://coloradoliberty.org/blog/2009/08/25/small-government-caused-our-current-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as I saw the headline of an August 10 article by financial columnist Peter Cohan, I knew that something was terribly wrong. It reads: “How did the politics of small government lead to big government bailouts?” This is akin to asking, How did the extinction of the elephants lead to Barack Obama’s election as president? If you make a claim of the form “A caused B,” but A never happened, then you are wasting your time by delving into the historical details of this bogus relationship. Yet we continue to see one example after another of what suspicious readers may be tempted to view as the Big Lie that deregulation or other obliging government measures caused the present economic mess. I won’t go so far as to characterize this claim as a Big Lie. Although some of its purveyors, acting out of partisan motives, surely know that they are blowing smoke, others may simply suffer from economic ignorance, analytical confusion, or loss of historical memory. In any event, the public is ill-served by commentators who purport to speak with authority about our current economic troubles and related government’s policies, yet peddle this worse-than-sophomoric tale. &#8230; More (Author: Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Welfare State and the Promise of Protection by Robert Higgs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our predecessors dealt with their worries by relying on religious faith. For tangible assistance, they turned to kinfolk, neighbors, friends, coreligionists, and comrades in lodges, mutual-benefit societies, ethnic associations, labor unions, and a vast assortment of other voluntary groups. Those who fell between the cracks of the voluntary societies received assistance from cities and counties, but governmentally supplied assistance was kept meager and its recipients stigmatized. In the 20th century, especially during the past seventy years, Americans have placed their faith in government — increasingly the federal government. Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1933, voluntary relief has taken a back seat to government assistance. Eventually, hardly any source of distress remained unattended by a government program. Old age, unemployment, illness, poverty, physical disability, loss of spousal support, childrearing need, workplace injury, consumer misfortune, foolish investment, borrowing blunder, traffic accident, environmental hazard, and loss from flood, fire, or hurricane all became subject to government succor. &#8230; More (Author: Robert Higgs  Source: mises.org  Date:  08.09.2009)]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Higgs &#8216;Accountability Needed at Fed&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://coloradoliberty.org/blog/2009/08/09/robert-higgs-accountability-needed-at-fed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 200 economists, mostly academics, have signed a petition urging Congress and the executive branch &#8220;to reaffirm their support for and defend the independence of the Federal Reserve System as a foundation of U.S. economic stability.&#8221; In defending the Fed against those now challenging the secrecy of its undertakings and, in some cases, its very existence, these economists offer three arguments. First, &#8220;central bank independence has been shown to be essential for controlling inflation.&#8221; Recall, however, that for more than a century before the Fed&#8217;s establishment in 1913, the purchasing power of the dollar fluctuated around an approximately horizontal trend line. Despite inflations and deflations usually associated with the wartime issuance of fiat money and the postwar return to specie-backed currency, the dollar more or less retained its exchange value against goods and services over the long run. Since the Fed&#8217;s establishment, however, the dollar has lost more than 95 percent of its purchasing power. Is this horrible record what these economists consider &#8220;controlling inflation&#8221;? If so, they have placed the performance bar much too low. &#8230; Read More (Author: Robert Higgs Source: mcclatchydc.com Date: 08.05.09)]]></description>
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