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by Dr. Richard M. Ebeling on May 13, 2013
The recent media reports that the Federal Reserve has devised an “exit strategy” to reverse their nearly $3 trillion increase of the money supply over the last several years shows that the monetary central planners remain wedded to the philosophy of “fine-tuning.”
by Sydney Williams
Scandals in Washington have deservedly moved most other news items off the front pages, but an article in the May 13th issue of the New York Times caught my eye. The title was “A Change in Temperature,” by Justin Gillis. The article dealt with the question of what will happen to the earth’s temperature should carbon dioxide continued to be pumped into the atmosphere. Recent studies suggest, according to the article – less than previously thought.
by Sydney Williams
Obstreperous unions, an imbedded welfare system and incompetent civil servants have been obvious impediments to austerity in Europe, but the real problem with austerity is that it is a dumb idea. Economic growth is necessary to get deficits down and recovery depends on spending; so the real debate should be between those who believe government should engineer the recovery and those who think the private sector should take the lead.
by Sydney Williams
Last Thursday, standing under an umbrella with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama, dripping with condescension, sounded like a combination of Claude Rains playing Captain Louis Renault in “Casablanca” and John Banner as Sergeant Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes.” He several times reminded the drenched press that he was Commander in Chief, but forsook any responsibility for and disclaimed any knowledge of the IRS, AP or Benghazi scandals. In fact, he was “shocked, shocked” that such happenings could be occurring under his watch and he professed to “know nothing.”
Politiker, die sich geschickt und von ganzem Herzen für christliche Werte einsetzen, sind leider rar. Es gibt aber genug junge, begabte Menschen, die das Zeug dazu hätten, durch persönliches Engagement und vielleicht auch in einem politischen Amt im öffentlichen Leben für unser gemeinsames Anliegen einzutreten.
Oft fehlt es diesen jungen Hoffnungsträgern aber am Wissen über die Probleme aus Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Recht und ihre Lösungsansätze, an den Instrumentarien wie zum Beispiel Rhetorik, Interview, Lobbying und Management, und an den notwendigen Kontakten.
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Center Right Coalition Meeting im Hayek Saal am 5. Juni um 8:00 Uhr (Grünangergasse 1/15-1, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien)
Wir freuen uns Botschafter Dr. Manfred Scheich bei uns begrüßen zu dürfen. Er wird ein Impulsreferat zur Frage “EU in der Sackgasse?” halten.
Anmeldung unter registration@hayek-institut.at damit wir für das Frühstücksbuffet genügend einkaufen.
Um Terminkollisionen zu vermeiden, bitten wir folgenden Zeitplan einzuhalten:
ab 8:00 Frühstücksbuffet
um 8:30 Beginn des Vortrages, ab 9:30 Wortmeldungen, um 10:00 Ende der Veranstaltung.
Liberale Menschen hatten und haben es in Österreich (und anderswo) nicht leicht. Etatismus wird in Österreich nach wie vor hochgehalten, wie die Diskussion um die Einsichtnahme der Finanzbehörden in die Bankkonten Privater, aber auch die Plakatkampagne in Wien gegen „die Privatisierung von Gemeindebau, öffentlichem Verkehr und kommunalen Betrieben“ deutlich zeigt.
Diskussion:
am 6. Juni um 19 Uhr im Management Club, Kärntner Straße 8, 1010 Wien
Eurostat estimates that 26. 521 million men and women in the EU-27, of whom 19.211 million were in the euro area (EA-17), were unemployed in March 2013.
Can unemployment be solved with more state intervetion or more freedom?
by Matthias Kelm
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by Sydney Williams
According to Ronald Ehrenberg, economist and professor of labor and industrial relations at Cornell, tuition at selective private colleges and universities has grown at two to three percentage points over the rate of inflation for over a century. However, “it wasn’t until the 1980s,” he wrote, “that tuition growth began to regularly outstrip growth in median family income.”