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Tortured Logic from City Officials

The story goes: The city of Nokia (in Finland) manages to mix raw seweage and drinking water. The result: salmonella et al. epidemic with thousands sick, many hospitalized and a city without drinking water. So naturally the city wants to make nice: they...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Wed, Dec 5 2007

Gudrun eldar och ökar klyftorna.

Gudrun Schyman och FI eldade upp 100 000kr , tydligen skulle detta på något sätt symbolisera att kvinnor tjänar mindre? Fråga mig inte hur den symboliken var tänkt. Vad hon har lyckats med är i alla fall att tillfälligt öka lönegapet mellan de som tjänar...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Wed, Jul 7 2010

Filed under: SVENSKA, feminism, ekonomi

Crédito

Por Frederic Bastiat. (Publicado el 8 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido de la versión en inglés. El artículo original en inglés se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/3807 . [De “Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve”...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 9 2009

Filed under: Frédéric Bastiat, Lo que se ve y lo que no se ve, crédito

Adoración de la masa

Por Ben O’Neill. (Publicado el 30 de enero de 2012) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5879 . Hace unos meses, estuve visitando a unos amigos en Sydney y me invitaron a la casa...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 31 2012

Filed under: Ben O’Neill, democracia

Economic Intervention and the Fairness Doctrine

Economic Intervention and the Fairness Doctrine [This paper was an undergraduate paper for a course in broadcast media history.] The fairness doctrine, a policy first introduced by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1949 and...

Posted to Brent Mowery by Brent Mowery on Sat, May 1 2010

Filed under: economic intervention fairness doctrine fcc frc radio act 1927

Don't look at the officer, divert your eyes for he is the law.

Saturday before Christmas, for the second time in a couple years I've been pulled over by a cop because I looked at him. The first time was when I looked at a cop who while driving with a cell phone to his ear made a left turn across my path forcing...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Mon, Dec 29 2008

Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents)

Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents) by Alex Merced This is just some comments to add my two cents to Robert Murphys Responses to Critics of Austrian Economics . Critic: How come unemployment wasn't the worst in the states that had...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Mon, Aug 2 2010

Filed under: Economy, Innovation, Statistics, Standard of Life, quality

Fifty Cents Worth of Justice

Fifty Cents Worth of Justice is better than millions of dollars spent by the California justice system. Fifty cents is all it would have cost to have saved the life of a little girl. Fifty cents. And not fifty cents per day, like they tell you on those...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Sep 1 2009

Filed under: Capitol punishment, california, Jaycee Duggard, Phillip Garrido, rape, Justice, kidnapping

El Derecho a No Obedecer - XVIII - De cómo yo no soy iconoclasta

Presentamos este documento, escrito en el año 1919, por el Maestro Fernando González, conocido como el Filósofo de Otraparte, o también como el Filósofo de Envigado (Colombia). Veremos la coincidencia de sus ideas con...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Jul 9 2009

Then & Now: My Attitude on Convincing Non-Austrians

I can vividly remember my first exposure to Austrian Economics. Around 7 years ago, during the dot-com crash, I stumbled upon an article by George Reisman that explained the Austrian Business Cycle Theory. My eyes were instantly opened, and I've been...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sun, Jan 27 2008

Filed under: debate

Cameras & Cops

So it would appear that lawmakers have already started making it illegal to point cameras at cops. According to this article it is already illegal in 3 states. At first glance the only reason they would do this seems to be that they want the police to...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Thu, Jun 3 2010

Filed under: ENGLISH, freedom of speech, crime

From Watery Chaos

Cosmologies, like Hesiod's Theogony , are accounts of the beginnings of the universe, and they generally also, through the course of telling the universe’s origins, tell of the universe’s workings: i.e., why the sun rises every day. Cosmology...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Filed under: Cosmology, Mythology

Economics in One Lesson校译之13. “Parity” Prices

“Parity” Prices 第13章 “等位”价格 SPECIAL INTERESTS, as the history of tariffs reminds us, can think of the most ingenious reasons why they should be the objects of special solicitude. Their spokesmen present a plan in their favor; and...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Jul 4 2009

Changing Perspectives, Part 2

The defense budget of the United States is the largest on the planet. Our nation pours massive resources into improving, modernizing, and keeping our fighting forces the best trained and best equipped in the world. While it is foolish to assume that we...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Feb 17 2009

Filed under: economy, masses, struggle, Egypt, Defense, budget, corvee labor, technology

A View from the Trenches, September 24th, 2009: "Opinions are divided"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Yesterday we had the announcement of the FOMC decision. Nobody was surprised, the target range for the federal funds rate was left where it was, and the extension in (and slowing...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Sep 23 2009