Following up, no doubt, on The Free Agent’s recent rumination on bond rating services, the New York Times posted an editorial yesterday on the same subject. Unsurprisingly, it ignores the crucial role played by the SEC in giving the agencies a false varnish of objectivity, and—insert exhausted sigh—recommends as a solution, more government control, even […]
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Is The Free Agent the only one who heard President Obama channeling Edward G. Robinson at his speech at Cooper Union last week? ‘Listen here, you mugs,’ she paraphrases, ‘You’re gonna get in line, see? You’re gonna play by the rules, and guess who’s gonna be making the rules?” Underlying the current reform fad is
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Warren Redlich decisively won the New York Libertarian Party nomination for Governor today at the NYLP convention in Albany. Sam Sloan opposed Redlich for the nomination. Redlich will also seek the Republican nomination. Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis who had considered seeking the Libertarian nomination did not show up. Davis’s campaign strategist Roger Stone previously said that he wouldn’t
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Emperor President Obama briefly visited New York City yesterday, Earth Day, burning hundreds of gallons of jet fuel to give a short speech that could have been delivered just as easily from the Rose Garden. Of course, whenever His Excellency graces us with his presence, ordinary life for the serfs grinds to a halt. Outbound flights are
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With mixed signals at best for a truce in the war on drugs, The Free Agent modestly proposes an interim solution, aimed at minimizing the pathologies innocent bystanders—hereafter referred to as squares—suffer. Until you can do so legally, the FA suggests to pushers of the world, incorporate. When a drug dealer is arrested, his turf,
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Holy environmental impact awareness, Batman! The Monoxitube, the brainchild of Dave Doctor, allows drivers to “face their exhaust.” Before you whip out your credit card, no the Monoxitube is not a real product. Dave “invented” the Monoxitube to illustrate an obscure point made by the late Murray Rothbard in For a New Liberty. From the
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Manhattan Libertarian activist Antonio Musumeci, better known to the teeming masses by his nom de intertubes Bile, filed a lawsuit today challenging a government regulation that unconstitutionally restricts photography on federal property, including public plazas and sidewalks. Bile is represented in the action by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The complaint names the U.S. Department
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Spendthrift Obama has gotten himself into some hot economic water exploding the federal deficit to more than 10% of GDP for the first time since World War II. If you fans of Keynes think all that spending has helped the economy you might want to take a look at employment data before you start celebrating.
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The Free Agent conveyed her surprise to a friend the other day—the federal government’s economic indicators—corporate profits, GDP, net investment—all point to an economy catching a trade wind, finally, out of the doldrums. This seemed to contradict lots of her experience, stubbornly-high unemployment (even allowing for employment to be what economists call “sticky”, employers believed
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The Free Agent once worked at a publication she will pseudoname Hippy Week. Oh, how happy she was there, how her duties suited her, and how she enjoyed her intelligent, energetic, and humorous coworkers. But while they tolerated her politics—they could accept any position as long as it was perceived to be on the lunatic
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