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Free The Schools and Education for All by Harry Browne.
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Sheldon Richman throws out a few author names in this interview: Also, Lew Rockwell interviews John Taylor Gatto here . Gatto's books are listed at the bottom.
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As we all know, coal is the cheapest source of energy, but it is also, allegedly, causes a lot of pollution. However, when I've searched for how much pollution burning coal causes, I got a lot of envirowhacky stuff about carbon dioxide and global warming. What I'm interested in is: How much pollution does coal cause AND would coal be a cheap
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Well, I don't want to derail the thread here, so all I'll say is this: making oil from animal parts, used tires, and other wastes is still fairly expensive at $80 per barrel and it probably is only one part of the total solution to our current energy woes. I suggest that if anyone wants to continue discussing the merits and issues with "man
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[quote user="Prateek Sanjay"] Well, what is your opinion of thermal depolymerization? It's one method for producing oil in a man-made form, and the quality of oil produced so far has been...decent. Better than past efforts, for sure.[/quote]
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Alex K, What do speculators try to do? They try to buy when prices are low and sell when prices are high. In other words, they buy when supply is high and/or demand is low, and sell when supply is low and/or demand is high. So if prices are rising because of speculators, then that's because people believe that either supply will be too low or demand
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That's a pretty decent explanation but after I've read your post, I'm left wondering "why?" Why are investors mislead into starting unprofitable projects? Why do unprofitable projects appear profitable? Why must interest rates rise and why do booms/busts happen even if interest rates remain stable? Why is a mismatch between savings
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[quote user="Eugene"]According to the supply curve it costs companies more dollars per product to supply larger quantity of products.[/quote] Uhm, what? All a supply curve shows is that with an increase in price, there will be a greater quantity supplied to the market.
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[quote user="Prateek"] Krazy Kaju, much of New Delhi's universities are importers of ideas exported from Cambridge and other British universities. Amarta Sen, a student of Joan Robinson, accepted without question that it's a good thing if a public sector company loses money, because profits are evil. This was recounted sarcastically