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  • Damn Free Markets

    Once again, exploitative capitalism and free markets ravaging the consumers by making things too expensive for the average person: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41994697/ns/health-pregnancy/ Wait ... what? "But recently, KV Pharmaceutical of suburban St.Louis won government approval to exclusively...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by AntiNeoFascist on Thu, Mar 10 2011
  • On the strategy of persuasion, a caveat.

    There is a disturbing trend that I’ve come across lately and that is when, people of anarcho-capitalism persuasion drag down their fellow free-market libertarians and minarchists for not going 'all the way'. Now i personally would say that support the rights-based anarcho-capitalist ideal;...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Cyther Lynx on Mon, Mar 7 2011
  • Channel 4 documentary: Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story

    This Channel 4 documentary about Britain's national debt is very interesting, and it's views are commendable in a mainstream TV show. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-trillion-pound-horror-story/4od#3139408 Unfortunately it's gone from the site tomorrow.
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by vekkna on Fri, Dec 10 2010
  • Re: Why is U.S. health care more expensive & worse than other countries?

    Would you consider that part of the problem could be due to unethical practices of businesses combined with the lack of government controls over unethical market-distorting practices. Example: Drug Companies Pay to other Drug Companies Keep Drug Prices High -- they pay them to delay the introduction...
    Posted to Newbies (Forum) by Nelson Wilberforce on Tue, Jul 20 2010
  • Subsidy- Solar- Cell Phones

    Their subsidization of solar panel production is, believe it or not, has little or no impact on the pace of solar energy research and development. If they subsidized the production of cell phones, new faster, smaller, more reliable cell phones would still be coming out every year. The only difference...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Sanchez on Sun, Apr 18 2010
  • "Private option" for government?

    I know Ron Paul has mentioned support of this sort of proposal before, but I wasn't really able to find much else on this idea. Has there been any thought given to promotion of a "Private option" for government? That is, people voluntarily giving up their "protections" like police...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Marked on Fri, Apr 16 2010
  • Non Enumerated Rights

    The Non-Enumerated Rights It has been said that "governments are instituted amongst men" by Thomas Jefferson. The argument for the purpose of which; is to secure rights and privileges consistent with the views of society, during a specific time period. The natural process by which human's...
    Posted to General (Forum) by opsisone on Sat, Apr 3 2010
  • Canada-A veiw from the other side (Competition in telecoms of CanadaIs; is it really there)

    I have been thinking of this article, in which I read recently. In its entirety I believe the author answers his own questions, in regards to barring entry to the market but does try to avoid that it is regulation in the one aspect where when regulation was repealed to let smaller competitors compete...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by Sanchez on Mon, Feb 22 2010
  • Re: How does the Federal Reserve effect the US government's ability to finance its debt?

    Foreigners continue purchase these freshly printed paper US Bonds (at a discount from face value or CV) only because these US bonds can be redeemed by purchasing title to privately owned land, hotels, farms, businesses, casinos and other assets that were created by previous generations of US citizens...
    Posted to Newbies (Forum) by Gerald Spencer on Mon, Feb 15 2010
  • On The Subject of Freedom

    An article from my website : How many of you have stopped to consider what the word freedom means? Webster’s defines it as: 1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Michael Suede on Wed, Jan 6 2010
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