Author Archives: Pat

Fantastic satire about the current sovereign debt crisis:

By Pat | Published: 6/3/2010
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Tulipmania

By Pat | Published: 6/2/2010
I’m starting (as I type this) my Mises Academy online course, “Tulips to Plywood Palaces: Bubbles in Theory and History,” taught by Dr. Doug French, director at the Mises Institute. The course description: Doug French, president of the Mises Institute, will teach a nine-week course, June 1-August 2, 2010, based on his book Early Speculative [...]
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Are the World Bank and the IMF really capitalist ideas?

By Pat | Published: 3/24/2010
(Note: the word “capitalism” in this essay is meant to refer to the free market, not state capitalism. This article was also published in The Free Press.) Often times when one listens to or reads the arguments of those who make it their job to “overthrow the capitalist system,” one will be subjected to the [...]
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Health care and the free market

By Pat | Published: 1/28/2010
(This article was published with some revisions for size in The Free Press, an FSU campus circular. That version is available here.) Lately it has been taken for granted by many politicians, pundits, and political spectators that the current health care ills faced by certain people or groups in the United States are ills caused [...]
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You live, you learn?

By Pat | Published: 2/6/2009
So, the hard truth is that finding mature people at any age is nearly impossible, and finding authenticity even more so. I think that particular truth is especially evident in an abnormally contrived, artificial place like Florida. I thought I hated the loss of innocence, but I think that that may have been another manifestation [...]
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