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The prescience of Hazlitt

Shortly after the erection of Fannie Mae, and nearly 30 years before that of Freddie Mac and the legislation of the Community Reinvestment Act, Henry Hazlitt was there. The voice of the Austrian school could see it with his refined eye, as only he could...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, Feb 7 2009

Filed under: fannie mae, freddie mac, henry hazlitt, Community Reinvestment Act

¿Por qué murió el Gobierno Limitado?

Escrito por Alberto Mansueti, miembro fundador de "Rumbo Propio" Toda doctrina política se apoya en una visión de la naturaleza del hombre y por tanto de la sociedad humana, de la cual es tributaria inseparable. El Liberalismo...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Feb 7 2009

Update from Rob Bradley: My BOOKS prove that I'm a free-marketer! (That's why I'm free to boost fossil fuels and bash enviros on my blogs!)

I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Feb 7 2009

Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Coal, obama, Rob Bradley

Introduction

Welcome to my blog: “The Critiques”, I pray that you will enjoy its content as well as find it a well written, and intriguing analysis. This inaugural blog post will be to explain what I intend to do here, and how I shall go about doing it...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Fri, Feb 6 2009

The Return of Feudalism

They say things come to you in the shower. That doesn’t usually happen with me. More often, during the act of climbing into bed. Then I have to get up and write the idea down, for experience has taught me if I don’t write it down, no matter...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Fri, Feb 6 2009

Filed under: Bail out, Bailout, socialism, economy, Communism, capitalism, government, retirement, feudalism, greed, mutual fund, FICA, taxes, Social Security, stock market, swindle, 401K, swindler

Paul Joskow on needed changes to power regulation, particularly if climate legislation is passed

A hodge-podge of state and federal regulations is keeping costs high and interfering with the development of competitive power markets. Paul L. Joskow , current President of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and former Head of the MIT Department of Economics...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 6 2009

Filed under: power, deregulation, Kiesling, climate change, Joskow

MIT's "Technology Review" on the regulatory obstacles to a "smart grid" needed for open, competitive electricity markets

David Talbot , chief correspondent for the MIT Technology Review , has an excellent, long piece in the January/February online issue that explores some the of intra- and inter-state regulatory hurdles that frustrate both the expansion of renewable power...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 6 2009

Filed under: power, climate change, regulation

Why Liberals Fail

Let it never be said that the FutbolGuru is one-sided. Lemmings are one sided which is why they run off cliffs. Or rather, why it is so easy to get them to run off cliffs. What if one of those lemmings in White Wilderness had simply stopped to smell the...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: class, Obama, Liberal, Conservative, hope, war, class warfare, recession, moderate, Reagan, depression

Rob Bradley: EXTRA! In tough times, economy and jobs trump enviro priorities!

Wow, what startling news. Thanks for sharing it with us Rob. Now perhaps you can catch your breath. Rob Bradley trumpets an opinion poll that indicates that voters care more about more immediate and pressing issues than they do about distant problems...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: energy, Rob Bradley, climate change

Don't legislate me

Growing up with five brothers, my parents had to be particularly careful that they were seen to be fair and just if all out war was not to ensue over the most trivial matters. One technique that we often used was that whoever cut the cake was the last...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: Bruno Leoni, Common Law, Legislation, Law, Freedom

Rob Bradley cheers on coal, but are all those who want to better manage commons and environmental impacts "Malthusian" idiots, or only in the case of coal?

Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Coal, obama, Rob Bradley, Jim Hansen, climate change

Why Conservatives Fail

The things conservatives say make sense. They really do. Why stand in the way of people who are trying to innovate? Lower taxes on success. Deregulate as much as possible. Give people the tools they need to succeed widly. These things, conservatives say...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 4 2009

Filed under: Liberal, leader, Conservative, military, neoconservative, conservativism, leadership

Bob Murphy - fan of cost-benefit analysis (in the face of climate risks)!

Austrian-leaning economist Bob Murphy , whose efforts last year to discount the work of Yale's William Nordhaus on how cost-benefit analysis merits current action on climate change I previously examined , is back with more, this time defending Nordhaus'...

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

Filed under: carbon pricing, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, climate change, Weizman

"Free market" Rob Bradley prefers to mock enviros rather than to make common cause

Robert L. Bradley, Jr. is an energy expert (author, former speechwriter for Key Lay and director of public policy analysis at Enron, founder and CEO of Institute for Energy Research ) with libertarian leanings. But in a series of posts on climate issues...

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

Filed under: carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Rob Bradley, climate change

In the fight over climate policy, Jerry Taylor of Cato tries to stiffen the spines of the purist enviros (in order to limit the "Bootleggers")

Jerry Taylor of Cato is one careful observer of the carbon follies who sees the handwriting on the wall for some type of carbon pricing system coming from the Congress during the Obama Administration. Strikingly, in an interesting post up at MasterResource...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Feb 3 2009

Filed under: yandle, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Jerry Taylor, Joe Romm