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“THE INITIATED”: AARON DIRECTOR AND THE CHICAGO MONETARY TRADITION

BENTON, La. -- Bossier Parish will remain in the business of picking up certain trash and debris at no charge to homeowners. But parameters will be established to determine what will qualify for removal. Members of the police jury voted Wednesday to accept recommendations from the Road/Subdivision Regulations Committee approving continued service that began as massive cleanup campaigns following floods in 2015 and 2016, tornadoes and a hurricane. Committee Chairman Glenn Benton of District 2 sa...

5/2/2021 An Unusual History: A Conversation Between Two Economists About the Economics Department at the University of Chicago Breaking News Editor’s note [ProMarket]: The current debate in economics seems to lack a historical perspective. To try to address this deficiency, we decided to launch a Sunday column on ProMarket focusing on the historical dimension of economic ideas. You can read all of the pieces in the series here.   housands of pages have been written about the ...

Recreational facilities reopening in Columbia The City of Columbias indoor facilities will open for the first time in over a year on May 3. Author: Julia Kauffman (WLTX) Updated: 6:53 PM EDT April 19, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Since the start of the pandemic, the City of Columbia’s indoor recreational facilities have been closed to the public. Now they’re gearing up to reopen on May 3. City officials say as they prep and clean their facilities before opening, t...

During the fall of 2009, George Papandreou headed the ticket of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, known by its acronym PASOK, against the then‐​governing conservative party, New Democracy, in the Greek national elections. Papandreou ran on a platform that featured highly expansive fiscal spending. During a press conference on September 13, 2009, he was asked where he would find the money to fund his party’s spending proposals. His answer was that given in the above quotation, by which...

© The Strategic Culture Foundation Friedrich von Hayek, Adam Smith, Lion of Britain In Book 8 of The Republic, Platos protagonist Socrates observes astutely that "the ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy. The same disease magnified and intensified by liberty overmasters democracy- the truth being that the excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction and this is the case not only in the seasons and in vegetable and animal life, but above all in forms ...

By Grace Beahm Alford gbeahm@postandcourier.com A map of a proposed revamp of Columbia’s Finlay Park Chris Trainor COLUMBIA — Roughly halfway into a financial year marred by the worst public health crisis in a century, taxes collected on restaurant sales in South Carolinas capital are down 37 percent compared to this time last year. And with an end to COVID-19 still far from reality, the cash-strapped city has slashed expenses and paused long-awaited projects. That includes plans f...

BIG by Matt Stoller Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted. Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today’s issue is about the various antitrust cases against Google and Facebook announced this week, and why it’s time to issue criminal indictments against the executives responsible for the bad behavior. Plus: Legendary judge Jed Rakoff issues a ruling threatening private e...

use of technology is stringing along at its own course and is creating a flood of leaks, sometimes of classified information. i will just give you one example. i visited a company called subversive for the conclusion of the book is and traverse a has clients, big corporations, big law firms, big medical companies who believe for some reason their proprietary information is out there on the web, maybe someone brought some work home and it got out there. so they are hired to go look for...

not wipe out. just like that. and there will always have a base among the people if the people do not feel the government serves their interest which is the trouble of most latin american countries toda . . >> the united states troop had authority under the treaty to help put that down. and so the united states established itself as always being a favor of putting down even democratic rebellions in order to preserve order and stability. and then after 1900, you know, in the roosevelt, ...