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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
  • In Defense of Ben Bernanke - any comments?

    From yesterday's WSJ. ---------------------------------------------------------------- By ALAN S. BLINDER Ignorance is not bliss, especially when your economy is faltering and sound policies are badly needed. For months, we have witnessed the spectacle of people arguing that Keynes was wrong. Somehow...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by Redmond on Tue, Nov 16 2010
  • Obama, the founders and taxes

    http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100927/OPINION03/9271001/-1/opinion?Title=John-L-Ward-Obama-the-founders-and-taxes A coworker recently brought up this editorial article, not really as a justification for a tax raise but rather a criticism of the seemingly double standard in quoting the "founding...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by BiPolarMoment on Wed, Sep 29 2010
  • Can someone explain the provisions of the new financial reform bill to me?

    Since I really don't feel like leafing through 2,300 pages of unreadable, barely decipherable, incoherent government gibberish that disgraces and besmirches decent English and all those who can write it - besides, the 1,400 pages of Rothbard's 'Man, Economy and State' that I just started...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by kingofkings92 on Mon, Jul 26 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to barring entry to the market but does try to avoid that it is regulation in the one aspect where when regulation was repealed to let smaller competitors compete...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
  • Smacked a NeoCon

    http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2010/02/sullivan-and-reynolds-applaud-paul-victoryme-not-so-much.html This was posted on lewrockwell.com as a blog post ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/51252.html ). I left a lengthy comment (as nurbsoldier) that made "Professor...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by RogueMerc on Sun, Feb 21 2010
  • Continental Convention

    MUST WATCH the Continental Convention 2009!!! Increadible! I was crying while watching the opening ceremonies. And the speaches are great. Not all the speakers are great speakers, but the information is fantastic. All the representatives were elected by their States. It's at www.cc2009.us Strangely...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by cryptocode on Thu, Nov 19 2009
  • The Green Energy Fallacy

    There has lately been a big push from the federal government for alternative or green energy. Obviously, any government push of anything correlates with a push of money from someone's pockets to someone else's pockets, and certainly this observation does not find an exception with the recent...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by Dewaine McBride on Mon, Nov 2 2009
  • Nominee for Supreme Court Justice

    I have not followed this forum long enough to know if the nomination of a supreme court justice merits special attention or if it is just another subject. I am curious about the community's reaction, if any, to the nomination process and the nominee. Judge Sonia Sotomayor is being touted as someone...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by Lyle D. Riggs on Wed, May 27 2009
  • Inflation vs. Deflation FINAL

    Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Earlier this week I posted my thoughts on inflation and deflation on this blog. I got a lot of good responses and others confused and contrived. Posting it allowed me internalize my thoughts and hear others opinions and piece...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by Ryan L Morelli on Sat, Mar 28 2009
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