The Freeman, Vol. 60, No. 5 (June 2010)

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Features

Federal Deposit Insurance:A Banking System Built on Sand	Warren C. Gibson
The Myth of the Model	Max Borders
The New Financial Imperialism	Robert Stewart
Producing Jobs:Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses	Bruce Yandle
Are Welfare State Orphans in Good Hands?	James L.Payne
Orient Express to Hell	James Bovard

Columns

Ideas and Consequences~ The 1932 Bait-and-Switch	Lawrence W.Reed
Thoughts on Freedom~ The Private Provision of Public Goods	Donald J. Boudreaux
Our Economic Past~ Comparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession	Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
Peripatetics~ Jefferson’s Economist	Sheldon Richman
Give Me a Break!~ The Right to Work	John Stossel
The Pursuit of Happiness~ Drugs, Economics, and Liberty	Walter Williams

Departments

Perspective~ “What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear”	Sheldon Richman
Nuclear Energy Should Be Subsidized? It Just Ain’t So!	Art Carden & Mike Hammock

Book Reviews

Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses by Timothy P.Carney	George Leef
The Case for Big Government by Jeff Madrick	Robert Batemarco
Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, edited by Jonathan Bean; and Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America by Judge Andrew Napolitano	Roger Clegg
Financial Fiasco:How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis by Johan Norberg	Waldemar Ingdahl

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