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Getting Americans Back Into the Ecomony

My grandmother grew up in Mississippi during the Great Depression. Life for her must have been unimaginably difficult compared to the ease we enjoy today, even with the economy like it is. She knew how to can food, grow a garden, fix things, and generally...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Dec 22 2008

Germany will go down the drain

It's inevitable. To many here do not understand the simplest economic rule any more. On of the new "pets" (in fact dragons in disguise) is called base income payment for every german. No question about work no question who has to pay. Every...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Jul 13 2012

Filed under: stupidityty driven to the max. I'm so fed up

Immodest thoughts: To fix capitalism, we must get govt out of corporate risk-management (rent-selling) business and get shareholders to stop playing 'victim' & start paying attention to risks

I am prompted by recent events to follow up on thoughts I emailed to Sheldon Richman a few months back: I feel strongly that If we want to fix the country (and if libertarians don't want to be dismissed as irrelevant/patsies for rent-seekers) we need...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, May 11 2011

La cuestión de la banca de reserva fraccionaria

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 14 de junio de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4499 . La economía austriaca es superior al marxismo es todos los aspectos, y esto...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jun 15 2010

Filed under: Robert Murphy, banca, reserva fraccionaria

WSJ: In DC at the Economic Club, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson again proposes a straight, rebated tax on carbon emissions (OR, climate policy gamesmanship & the importance of being earnest)

Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has done it again*, by proposing in a speech on October 1 in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. shelve cap-and-trade legislative approaches to managing greenhouse gas emissions in favor of direct carbon taxes that are rebated to consumers...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Oct 3 2009

Filed under: Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon, Tillerson, carbon tax

The Free Market Isn't "Dead"

Over and over I keep reading about how the free market has died...how our current crisis is the result of free market forces. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The crisis that we are experiencing is one of interventionism . It always...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Oct 7 2008

Filed under: free market

Luboš Motl 4: His considered plan to eliminate enviros: they should be treated like N*zis, so it may be necessary to kill millions (less if we get started soon!)

As noted on the prior thread , in a recent blog post, scientist Lubos Motl concluded that there " literally pandemics " of people writing stuff on global warming, and that is "simply ... no other help for the people who are writing most...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, skeptic, Lubos Motl, ribalism, Nazi

For climate fever, take two open-air atom bombs & call me in the morning; "serious" libertarian suggestions from Kinsella & Reisman!?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 4 2009

Filed under: geo-engineering, Reisman Rule, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Kinsella

Ideas from the new chairwoman of the Finnish Social Democrats

Some great ideas from the new chairwoman of the SDP, Jutta Urpilainen. Clearly, reality is far more malleable than I have realized. - "I propose that every citizen should have a subjective right to housing. We must always afford human dignity!"...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Sat, Jun 7 2008

The evolution of Palin: Is the battle over evolution a struggle against science, or a proxy war with the state?

In the context of a review of the focus on "creationism" that Alaska governor Sarah Palin has injected in the presidential election, Christopher Caldwell , a senior editor at The Weekly Standard , has attempted to explain (in The Financial Times...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Sep 7 2008

Filed under: republicans, creationism, Democrats, federal contol, education, Palin, local control

Economics in One Lesson校译之 A NOTE ON BOOKS

A Note on Books 后记与参考书目 Those who desire to read further in economics should turn next to some work of intermediate length and difficulty. I know of no single volume in print today that completely meets this need, but there are several that together supply...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Ron Paul on immigration: What's the worst that could happen?

One of the more disturbing things about Ron Paul’s popularity is his staunch opposition to legal and illegal immigration. I pick on him not because his views on immigrants are especially harsh, but because they stand in stark contrast to his reputation...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Fri, Nov 2 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul, immigration, Malthusianism

Liberty and Teen Suffrage

What gives one the right to a vote? There is no better question with which to begin a discussion on suffrage; decades of rights violations have come as a result of misunderstanding this question and its answer. So first off, I think it is necessary that...

Posted to Teen Libertarian by John Baker on Fri, Feb 26 2010

Filed under: liberty, suffrage, youth, voting

RIAA v. Joel Tenenbaum: The RIAA's Lawsuits are Unconstitutional

In what is shaping up to be the most significant copyfight case in years, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor Charles Nesson of the Harvard Law School in mounting a challenge against a federal copyright law that is the heart of...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: copyfight

A View from the Trenches, May 7th, 2012: "The path from asset inflation to generalized inflation"

M. Hollande has won the French presidency and fear is now widespread, that with the anti-bailout message sent by the Greek electorate, who voted this weekend too, the house of cards built by the European Central Bank may collapse. It is hard for us to...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, May 7 2012