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The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI
The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI by Alex Merced While here at LibertyisNow.com I've been discussing several economic and philosohical concepts regarding individualism and Liberty, no war is won over night yet strewn across many hard fought...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 12:59 PM
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Alex Merced
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1870
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1920
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Microeconomics
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Price Stability
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1913
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1929
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Full Employment
Capitalism and Democracy
Capitalism and Democracy by Alex Merced Detractors to Capitalism often will make satire of the idea of "the invisible hand" as if Free Market Capitalist believe there is an actual invisible hand. The Invisible hand is a metaphor for much more...
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Wed, Aug 11 2010 1:38 PM
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Alex Merced
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Trading Markets
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Capitalism
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Democracy
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Voluntarism
Capitalism, Socialism, and Voluntarism by Alex Merced People blame all the worlds problems on it's systems of resource management, for in the end that is all that Capitalism and Socialism are, systems to managing scarce resources. Quality of life...
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Mon, Aug 09 2010 12:57 PM
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Alex Merced
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Anarchism
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Capitalism
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Socialism
Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation
Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation by Alex Merced Listen to his Mises U Lecture on Deflation One of my favorite topics and debates is the Inflation/Deflation debate, of Hulsmann has written extensively about putting him in my top...
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Sat, Aug 07 2010 10:53 AM
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Alex Merced
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1839
A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship
A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship by Alex Merced This is a Response to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship In this lecture Peter Klein does a great job discussing different aspects of defining the entrepeneur, so to sum up two of...
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Fri, Aug 06 2010 11:36 AM
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Alex Merced
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Schumpeter
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Entrepeneurship
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Austrian Economics
A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market
A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market by Alex Merced Listen to Peter Kleins Lecture here You've might have read in previous posts on Liberty is Now that I am one of the Libertarians who criticize corporations role in...
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Wed, Aug 04 2010 9:52 AM
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Alex Merced
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Limited Liability
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Limited Partnerships
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Peter Klein
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Libertarian
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Governance
Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents)
Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents) by Alex Merced This is just some comments to add my two cents to Robert Murphys Responses to Critics of Austrian Economics . Critic: How come unemployment wasn't the worst in the states that had...
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Mon, Aug 02 2010 9:32 PM
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Alex Merced
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quality
How do you read the Economy?
How do you read the Economy? by Alex Merced Many people always ask me, since I'm so critical about using any type of statistics to measure whether the economy is doing well or bad, how would I measure the performance of the economy? I wouldn't...
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Tue, Jul 27 2010 11:10 PM
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Alex Merced
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Statistics
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Standard of Life
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quality
The Difference Between Inflation and Increasing Price Levels
The Difference Between Inflation and Increasing Price Levels by Alex Merced One of the biggest debates right now is the inflation versus deflation debate, and much of this debate hinges on the events in consumer goods prices, but can inflation occur even...
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Sat, Jul 17 2010 11:12 AM
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Alex Merced
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Bank Reserves
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Hyperinflation
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Deflation
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Understanding Social Policy
Understanding Social Policy by Alex Merced You may have seen my recent video discussing how people are socialized by institutions , and how all institutions fall into three categories. I then followed up about how this framework can be applied to understanding...
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Sun, Jul 11 2010 10:39 AM
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Alex Merced
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Libertarians
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Discrimination
Regulating Enterprise
Regulating Enterprise by Alex Merced Time and time again we hear in the news that we need stronger regulation on Oil, Housing, and Banking to prevent all the problems we've seen over the last few years. Today, I'd like to make the argument that...
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Wed, Jun 30 2010 11:05 AM
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Alex Merced
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Subsidies
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SIPC
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Liability
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Fannie
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Oil
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Central Banks
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Unemployment
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Freddie
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Real Estate
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Housing
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Enterprise
Liquidity: The Destructor of Economies and Liberty
I always believed and still believe that innovations that make our day to day tasks simpler and easier is the key to raising the standard of life. Although, in making investment more convenient we have sown the seeds of our own destruction. The primary...
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Sat, May 08 2010 8:45 PM
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Alex Merced
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Liability
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Liquidity
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Destruction
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Derrivatives
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Corporations
Free Market Regulation Explained
Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing...
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Sun, Apr 25 2010 10:46 AM
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Alex Merced
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Consequence
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SIPC
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Individualism
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Magazines
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Rating Agencies
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Free Market
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SEC
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Reviews
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FDIC
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Collectivism
Individualism, Creativity, and Innovation
Individualism, Creativity, and Innovation by Alex Merced Premise 1: That creativity comes from tapping into your inner child Kids say the darndest things don't they? It's this innocent nature that we admire in kids, when they are young before...
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Sat, Apr 24 2010 10:43 PM
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Alex Merced
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Innovation
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Opportunity Cost
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Creativity
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The Effects of Public Policy on Private Activity
The Effects of Public Policy on Private Activity by Alex Merced One of the problems of people who advocate for a growing role of government is that they operate in a mindset of unlimited resources, or that a growth in government has little to no effect...
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Wed, Apr 21 2010 7:19 PM
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Alex Merced
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