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  • Re: Student Education Bubble?

    For it to be a bubble, it would have to be unsustainable. While I agree that government subsidies of education are a waste of money, I think it's sustainably wasteful, unlike the housing bubble. If education were about improving your human capital (making you more productive by giving you useful knowledge, skills, etc), the current system wouldn't
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by nbome on Fri, Jun 15 2012
  • Re: Anecdotes of special interest at work?

    Tom DiLorenzo mentions a bunch of stuff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_AV5xlt8k Iirc, he mentions a few books on the subject in his lecture, but I don't remember what they were and don't want to watch the whole thing again. Tom Woods has an excellent discussion of the special interests behind military spending in Rollback (stuff like
    Posted to General (Forum) by nbome on Tue, May 1 2012
  • Re: Incentives For Lowering Interest Rates

    It's not that they want lower interest rates, it's that they want the newly printed money. The Fed prints money and loans it to the banks at very low interest rates, who then loan it out for more and pocket the difference. Because of the increase in the supply of loans, the interest rate goes down. But even if they could make more money with
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by nbome on Thu, Apr 26 2012
  • Re: debate videos

    GMU Econ Society Debate: Separation of Health & State
    Posted to General (Forum) by nbome on Fri, Apr 6 2012
  • Re: Contra Ron Paul and "Blowback"

    [quote user="NeoCon"]Ron Paul believes that "blowback" is the primary motivation behind the actions of nations.[/quote] No he doesn't. He has never said that. He's said that 'blowback' is the primary reason a few specific events happened, but he's never said anything like it being the "primary motivation
    Posted to General (Forum) by nbome on Sat, Jan 7 2012
  • Re: Guerrilla Warfare

    Not exactly what you're looking for, but it does explain how a free nation might defend itself without violating the non-aggression principal. http://mises.org/journals/jls/20_3/20_3_2.pdf
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by nbome on Wed, Dec 21 2011
  • Re: Help! What Article Was That?

    'The Endless Sufferings of Cairo, Illinois' http://mises.org/daily/5281
    Posted to History (Forum) by nbome on Sat, Nov 19 2011
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