In this segment of his morning radio show, Bill Handel talks about the benefits of the concierge doctor service, Atlas MD. It's a glimpse into the quality and efficiency of free-market healthcare. The only thing that's missing is an unregulated, unsubsidized health insurance industry that mostly provides benefits for large/catastrophic medical expenses, rather than everyday expenses. This segment really is great to hear.
This article by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins should be seen by all Americans, and indeed, everyone else. It describes how people dealt with sudden injuries, deaths and the various disasters that can befall people, before government welfare programs and Social Security:
While politicians and the mainstream media in the US have been busy talking about the tax laws that expire at the end of 2012, we are approaching the real "fiscal cliff" very rapidly. This cliff is further in the future and no one knows exactly when we will fall over it, but the US will fall over it if it doesn't change direction immediately and drastically.
The economist, Peter Schiff, spells out the harsh reality of the situation the US is getting itself into in the following set of videos:
QE stands for "Quantitative Easing," where the the Federal Reserve creates new money and uses it to buy financial assets directly from banks. QE generates an increase in the money supply.
To paraphrase Ayn Rand: The majority of people in the US can ignore reality, but they can't escape the consequences of ignoring reality.
The Federal Reserve is setting the US economy up for another huge crash and a round of hyperinflation. Yet, given our history, it is not hard to predict that when the big crash happens, "scheming businessmen" and/or "unscrupulous financial traders" will take the blame from the mainstream media and dominant public opinion.
This Objective Standard article describes the deeper philosophical problem: The Moral Cliff
On November 5th at Duke university, renowned environmentalist and AGW proponent, Bill McKibben will debate Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress, on the effect that fossil fuels have on the human environment.
Here is a YouTube video on the debate:
As governments enact restrictions on fossil fuel use, power plant construction, CO2 emissions, etc. it's important to be clear on exactly what the effect of fossil fuel use is on the human environment and human life. Do they harm the planet, or do they improve it?
Below are links to Yaron Brook's explanation of how the US housing bubble and financial crisis happened. Yaron Brook has an MBA, a Ph.D. in Finance, and was a professor of finance at a university.
Here is a course that goes through the details of what happened and why. The video is in the center column of the page, at the top of the "Video & Audio" section: The Financial Crisis: What Happened and Why
In this segment of his morning radio show, Bill Handel talks about the benefits of the concierge doctor service, Atlas MD. It's a glimpse into the quality and efficiency of free-market healthcare. The only thing that's missing is an unregulated, unsubsidized health insurance industry that mostly provides benefits for large/catastrophic medical expenses, rather than everyday expenses. This segment really is great to hear.