Ebeling lived on AIER’s campus from 2008 to 2009.
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-378b3d8e-7fff-68c4-f0d2-1ba048f48851">The Sentinelese people are a remnant reflecting what human life and social experience was like for all of mankind for thousands of years: small bands of interrelated families living the most bare and primitive existence.</span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-847c3ab8-7fff-2dfe-527c-563eab5ed60d">What is needed is a much smaller government so that free individuals can be freer to make more of their own decisions in guiding their own lives rather than a big government with an “imperial” president arrogantly attempting to command and control them. </span></p>
<p>There is a solution to the rise of nationalism. That solution is self-determination. It would have worked after the First World War, had it been tried, and it will work today. </p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-238a6e19-7fff-a65b-cd4f-610e79493fc0">That the President's words were just passed over without comment or criticism tragically shows how far we’ve strayed from the ideas and ideals on which the country was founded.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6b79b693-7fff-094e-e4e5-84844e5624f0">Classical liberals and libertarians consider that their defense and insistence upon a principled practice of individual liberty and competitive free markets is no less of a moral necessity and calling than earlier demands for ending infringements on personal and social freedom that were widely taken for granted. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-af3bab97-7fff-29f9-feee-c62fbbe2e591">This is a fight between two political parties and groups desiring to have control of the same governmental machinery for the purpose of planning and directing people’s economic and social affairs in one way rather than another. </span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fb3289d9-7fff-5814-f3fc-8985efed84d3">Money did not originate in the laws or decrees of kings and princes. Money, as the generally accepted medium of exchange, emerged out of the market transactions of a growing number of buyers and sellers in an expanding arena of trade.</span></p>
<p>"I<span id="docs-internal-guid-3b31bb31-7fff-eecb-7b6e-d0ceba44c0bb">t seems almost impossible to rein in government. It keeps growing in size and scope in one direction after another. Why? And is there any way to reverse it?" ~ Richard Ebeling</span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d99874c-7fff-ad20-d540-47c85653728d">Academic works such as Quinn Slobodian’s </span>Globalists demonstrate that the anti-capitalists and anti-liberals are determined to make their case through factual fabrications and scandalous misinterpretations of what classical liberals such as Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek really said and advocated.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e5d97a5-7fff-f29f-56a0-c6da7f798418">Bad economics can bring about or grow out of bad politics. But the question is, what are bad economics and bad politics? Unless this is clearly and correctly identified, a bad situation can be made worse, and a good situation can be turned into a bad one. So sorting this out is crucial to having a free and prosperous society. </span></p>
