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Her comments were so pathetic. It's Bush/Obama's insane economic policies that resemble a work of dystopian fiction.

I was rather surprised to get a response. They said that, while they at that Institute would agree that governments ought to choose D, the question was what policy would be most likely followed.

TCE, Hamilton would be pleased with himself.

I just wrote to them saying that their 'correct' answer to question 30 is wrong (it should be D, not C), but I expect it was designed that way.

It's not exactly the same, but American merchant ships were attacked by the Barbary States during Jefferson's administration. Congress authorised Jefferson to send the new American military, without declaring war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War Jefferson did indeed try to stop...

He wasn't 'ordered' to shut up (at least not publically) but it was an embarassment for the Tory leadership which says it's "proud of the NHS".

I edited the USA part. For some reason it said that Hamilton and Clay were proponents of laissez-faire! I don't know whether the confusion was over the meaning of the word 'proponent' or the phrase 'laissez-faire'.

I believe investors expect a change of government in 2010 which will begin to get the public finances under controll.

Patriot123, No, your teacher is giving you a bullshit take on US economic history. Nor do we have to invoke a sinister Marxist plot to understand the time. For a start, politicians at the state and federal levels did interfere with economic affairs (although not as much as now) through high...

Thank you! Leeching now.

That would be wonderful. I would buy it myself but it costs almost as much to ship it to me overseas as the cost of the DVD itself! I'll subscribe to this thread by email but would you mind pming me when you've done this :) ?

Every source of energy consumes more than it produces. So that's not a great argument. Still shouldn't be subsidised :) .

Paul's comment here: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2008/cr0401b08h.htm

That MP is brave :) .

I just finished Imperial Hubris and am looking forward to starting Marching Towards Hell. I agree with most of Scheuer's criticisms of interventionism, but not his recommendations of what a new foreign policy should look like.