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In Defense of Jindal

Last night president Obama gave a formal address - arguably a prelude for the next four years of government spending, intervention and regulation. The Wall Street Journal commented that his vague allusions to industry regulations and bailouts were interpreted...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Feb 25 2009

Filed under: obama, stimulus, new orleans, jindal

REPEAT OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC PROBLEM PLUS SOLUTION

PROBLEM: From http://mises.org/Community/blogs/donlloyd/archive/2009/02/20/the-world-s-hardest-austrian-economics-problem.aspx THE WORLD'S HARDEST AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROBLEM by Don Lloyd For background : http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen21_3_1.pdf...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Wed, Feb 25 2009

Futbol Monograph #2

I recently learned an interesting piece of trivia. As everyone knows, only Americans call soccer, ‘soccer’. In other countries it is variously known as football, futbol, fusball, or other variants of foot + ball. It makes sense, since soccer...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 25 2009

NY's oil spill fund: limited liability means owners of polluting firms can walk away, leaving citizens and states holding the bag for risks & clean-up costs

There's an interesting article in the Feb. 22 Times Union on the ineffectiveness of the New York oil spill fund: Oil polluters pass on spill costs to public The New York Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund pays to clean up oil spills...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Feb 24 2009

Filed under: pollution, limited liability, corporate veil

[Update] Cato's Jerry Taylor: Nuclear power is "solar power for conservatives" and needs "a policy of tough love"

After decades of loathing nuclear power as the ugly, monstrous child of a big government Dr. Frankenstein, climate-change-fearing enviros like George Monbiot are finally coming around to the relative benefits of nuclear power. This is a welcome change...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Coal, Monbiot, Jerry Taylor, climate change, nuclear power

How we speak

Much of sociological thought is formed around basic ideas that are the predilections of other ideas. One large idea is that language forms the foundation for human interaction. If there was no language, it is thought, there would be a lack of society...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Mon, Feb 23 2009

What? Us Worry?

It is a well-known Wall Street expression that “the market dislikes uncertainty.” Yet, this has seemingly been forgotten, if it was ever known, by Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) when he said “ I'm concerned that we may end up having...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: economics, State power, Wall Street

Changing Perspectives: Conclusion

We tend to forget that government, politics, and economics are not the same thing. The word politics and the phrase political party don’t even occur in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Nor is the word economy even implied in either of...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: capitalism, government, politics, greed, selfishness, nepotism, free market, materialism, hedonism, economics

George Monbiot: taking the heat from other enviros for supporting for nuclear power

UK enviro-journalist-commentator George Monbiot has an interesting post in the Feb. 20 Guardian that explains his why he now believes that " A kneejerk rejection of nuclear power is not an option ", and why he's willing to take heat from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Monbiot, nuclear, climate change

An anology.

The overwhelming question of the day is why should some people be allowed to keep homes they bought but could not afford at a cost to those who made prudent decisions and either rented or purchased homes they could afford. I believe I have a suitible...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Sat, Feb 21 2009

THE WORLD'S HARDEST AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROBLEM

THE WORLD'S HARDEST AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROBLEM by Don Lloyd For background : http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen21_3_1.pdf REISMAN: If you open up the hood of an automobile, you see a number of individual parts that disable the entire car if they are...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Fri, Feb 20 2009

A question for Bryan Caplan

In The Myth of the Rational Voter , Bryan explains that, much of today's bad economic policies can be blamed on the systematic biased beliefs that voters hold concerning issues of economics. A way of rephrasing Bryan's insight - ideas matter....

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Feb 20 2009

Filed under: bias, religion, voiting

Filed under: carbon pricing, Kiesling, autos, Joskow, CAFE, Henry Payne

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