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Is there any evidence that the Obama administration has further changed the way unemployment is calculated (to make the numbers look better)?
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Greece has a huge public sector which is maintained in the expense of private sector. The government did not fire almost anyone from the public sector the last 3 years. Neither privatizations have been accomplished. The official unemployment is almost 30% all from private sector. However, some critics...
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I used to believe in protectionism. Several users here tried to persist me to abandoned it, but they did not take me seriously. But after reading Milton Friedman, I can say that I am absolutely convinced that protectionism is nonsensical > this is because the foreigners don't sell goods for dollars...
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http://www.cracked.com/article_20322_6-ways-companies-are-secretly-screwing-job-applicants.html
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One free market/libertarian answer to unemployment and poverty is lowering the minimum wage. My question is, how the heck are people supposed to live off a lower minimum wage? The minimum wage is already pretty low, if we lower it to say 3-4 dollars an hour, how is someone supposed to survive off that...
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Hello everybody. I am new in this forum and I am recently introduced in libertarian ideas. Therefore, I have many questions. Also, I am 29 y/o and I live in Greece. I would like to ask about immigration and jobs. Here in Greece we have approx. 1,000,000 illegal immigrants from Asia and Africa (total...