RIP Milton Friedman and Cheers to Freedom

I have been posting little on del.icio.us, due to a couple of events that have keeped me busy in the last couple of days.  The first one was the celebration of the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Atlas Economic Research Foundation where I work started this celebration on the ocassion of [...]

Upcoming free market movies

Today in a luncheon conference I learned of this 2 exciting projects:
January 29 will be the release of the Biographical video of Milton Friedman. I think I have at the office a screening video of “The life and ideas of Milton Friedman” that you can check here for a trailer:
http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/production/POC/index.php
The few little parts that I saw are [...]

Blogs at Atlas

Atlas Economic Research Foundation where I currently work has started a Blog written by their top executives. At the same time Atlas has started a BlogHub where all the free market bloggers or free market think tank bloggers are listed. I encourage people wanting to know about what Atlas does and hence what [...]

McElroy and DV

I came across her website long time ago, but I have not checked it back in a long time among other things because I only go through websites that have Rss or Atom feeds. This time it caught my attention her parallel blog on domestic violence (DV) and her own experiences with the issue [...]

Big Brother in Virginia

The use of RFID in Virginia Licenses is currently being taken into consideration. That has sparked a debate over privacy and security issues. The traditional privacy advocates views is that this might be a nightmare and that our privacy is going to be thrown into the trash. On the other hand tech [...]

Prehistory of the Moderm Libertarian movement in America

My colleague Leonard Liggio in an interview with John Blundell of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London in a recent Liberty Magazine recalls some of his encounters with the heroes of the libertarian, consevative world. I am amazed by this interview on how little things lead to great changes in the history of [...]