by Henry Oliner | Jul 24, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from Glenn Harland Reynolds Instapundit, one of my favorite daily reads: As Ayn Rand wrote in Atlas Shrugged: “Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 20, 2016 | Economics
The Man Who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby is an excellent biography of Alan Greenspan, but it may have greater value in understanding the power and limitations of the Federal Reserve itself. Greenspan has been accused of being an ideologue by some and a betrayer of free...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 26, 2016 | Philosophy, Politics
from my article in yesterday’s American Thinker, Donald Trump ushering in the third wave of Progressivism We are witnessing the third and final phase of American Progressivism, where the administrative state has stifled the economy, destroyed opportunities, and...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 9, 2016 | Philosophy, Politics
from Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem, this quote from Ayn Rand: Throughout the history of Europe, the values and ideas of its people never changed on one basic point: Europe is a state-worshiping culture. It has always worshipped the power of the state, whether it is in...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you see that trading is not done by consent, but by compulsion: When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing: When you see money flowing into those who deal not in goods, but in favors: When you see that men get...
