Working Around Leviathan

It is often said that, if the American economy is the 7th Wonder of the World, then American economic ignorance must be the 8th. Oh well… I suppose they don’t call it the “dismal science” for nothing. — jtl, 419

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What is the relationship between the rise of big government and the rise of American prosperity? It seems that people on the right and left are quick to confuse correlation with causation. They believe that the US is wealthy because the government is big and expansive. This error is probably the most common of all errors in political economy.

  It is often said that, if the American economy is the 7th Wonder of the World, then American economic ignorance must be the 8th. Oh well… I suppose they don’t call it the “dismal science” for nothing. — jtl, 419

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. via LewRockwell.com

   Here is what strikes me as a profound political paradox. The US government is larger, more consolidated, more powerful, and more intrusive than it has ever been in its history —indeed our sweet land of liberty is now host to the…

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