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I don't know if this has been brought up before [probably has, somewhere !], but Doug French on Mises Daily recently posted a good article that goes to the heart of the debate in this thread, called " The Folly of Forecasting " . regards, onebornfree
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F. Paul Wilson is a successful American fiction writer who is an anarcho-capitalist , and has been that way for 30 + years. In the introduction to the new edition of his science fiction novel "An Enemy of the State" , [about a revolution /plot on a distant planet to install a capitalist system without violence], he even talks about having
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[quote user="Wheylous"] I'm saying that RP appears himself to be mixed up. If the claim is that there was no proof that this guy was a terrorist, then RP doesn't support it, as he appears to think the guy was a terrorist. [/quote] But the Ron Paul article you linked states, near the end: " ....The precedent set by the killing
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[quote user="Wheylous"] I think the situation may have been a lot better had the government provided any proof of his guilt.[/quote] No, it would not. In these situations [ a government accuses an individual of criminal acts], all government "evidence" is "supposed" to be presented in court to a jury, and before defense
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The case for deflation, however defined, is no more or less sound than the case for any other broad, future economic scenario being predicted by anyone, anywhere [e.g. inflation, hyper inflation, disinflation etc.]. The fact of the matter is that no-one can consistently predict future economic events. Financial Safety Rule #1 says: " despite many
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[quote user="Torsten"] [quote user="onebornfree"] 1] The Oslo bomb was supposedly a fertilizer bomb, a la OKC/ McVeigh[or whomever]. Are you saying that the S.A bomb damage was caused by a fertilizer bomb also? [/quote]The Oslo bomb was apparently made of ammonium nitrate won from fertilizer. I am not sure of exactly what explosive
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[quote user="abskebabs"] what you think could be done to help get this country out of this mess. [/quote] Forget about trying to get others, and other countries, out of any perceived "messes" that you think they might be in, it is a complete waste of your valuable time [because you will fail] - concentrate only on your own life
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[quote user="Rcder"] [quote]He starts with Mv=Py, where M is money supply, v is velocity of money, P is average price, y is quantity of production.[/quote] I don't have the book in front of me, but isn't this Irving Fisher's equation of exchange? If this is the case, then he's using a formula which I recall Rothbard (perhaps
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[quote user="Torsten"] Car bombs can cause extensive damage and kill a lot of people. It al depends on circumstances. Take for instance the church street bomb it ultimately 19 people and injured more then a hundred. http://www.afriforum.co.za/english/background-information-church-street-bomb-20th-of-may-1983/ It was planted by the ANC, which
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[quote user="Smiling Dave"] If it is a simple q asked out of genuine curiosity, here's the answer. I will present the sequence of events in a timeline: 9 AM: Smiling Dave reads the John Harvey article. It raises doubts in his mind. Could the author be right? Dave is for the nonce undecided. 10 AM: Dave posts the gist of the article, expressing