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A government-fostered love of hatred: In which I rant to a buddy about some blind, stupid Left- and Islamofascist-hating neocon rant

A buddy forwarded to me a link to a flash movie he'd received via a chain of forwarded emails headed "A Powerful, Must Watch Video". I started taking a look at the flash movie, then paused and went to check out the host website: http://apathetic...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jul 8 2010

A View from the Trenches, January 28th, 2011: "Why the Euro could rise even higher (and gold fall even lower)"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-28-2011 We were as surprised as many others when the lows of $1325/oz were taken yesterday and gold made it all the way down to $1,310/oz, after the previous post-FOMC rally. We were the more...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jan 27 2011

Open Source Academics

This interesting protest of "locked down" academic journals made it to Digg's frontpage today. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Feb 8 2008

Filed under: Technology, digg, open source, publication, journals

Apropos Election Time

Isn't it so apropos that election time comes near the celebration of ghouls, fiends, evil spirits, and general horror? How fitting! Isn't it telling that Obama and McCain costumes are selling like hot cakes for a celebration where people dress...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Oct 29 2008

Stimulus committee

Last night I stopped the clicker on CSPAN for a while, it was one of the stimulus package committee meetings. Man these things are better drama then anything else that's on TV! There was some obvious tension across party lines. Democrats presented...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Jan 22 2009

Filed under: obama, stimulus

Can We Have Another Banking Holiday?

By Monty Pelerin , posted March 6th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/06/can-we-have-another-banking-holiday/ Can We Have Another Banking Holiday? “But most commercial banking is “deposit banking” based on a gigantic scam: the...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Mar 6 2010

Filed under: banks

Michael Kinsley’s Intuition is better than “Expert Opinion”

Michael Kinsley’s Intuition is better than “Expert Opinion” By Monty Pelerin , posted March 28th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/28/michael-kinsley%e2%80%99s-intuition-is-better-than-%e2%80%9cexpert-opinion%e2%80%9d/ In an...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sun, Mar 28 2010

Filed under: inflation, insolvency, Kinsley

Health care, racism, and opposing the President

It has become common for supporters of President Obama's plan to socialize medical care in this country to maintain that those of us who oppose such a measure are motivated, partly or wholly, by racism. Former President Jimmy Carter has signed onto...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Mon, Sep 21 2009

Filed under: racism, health care

The crux of the Constitutional analysis of corporate "personhood" and "speech"

Further to my four preceding posts , I copy below a further comment that I left on a thread at The Volokh Conspiracy , which I think summarizes the core Constitutional issue: TokyoTom says: John Dewey : Sorry, Tom. You can disagree with me, but the majority...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 4 2010

Filed under: corporations, constitution, free speech

La maquinaria de la justicia

Por Clarence Darrow. (Publicado el 19 de octubre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5522 . [ Resist Not Evil (1903)] El estado no proporciona ninguna maquinaria para llegar...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Oct 20 2011

Filed under: justicia, Clarence Darrow

Desperate Economic Action Ahead?

Aug 10 2010 The Apocalypse The economic condition of the country continues to decline toward its rendezvous with an, as yet, unknowable catastrophe. Speculation regarding this outcome is natural because self-interest, if not self-preservation, is at stake...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Aug 10 2010

Healthcare and Rationing

Currently, many experts are denying the claim that a government run healthcare service would need to ration out care to patients. However, this impossible. Just like the free-market, which "rations" according to ability and willingness to pay...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Sun, Aug 23 2009

A View from the Trenches, February 6th, 2012: "Walking the fine line"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: February 6 2012 When we last wrote two weeks ago, we took the time to lay out an analytical framework that would act as our guide. We invest following the approach of the Austrian School, which is...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Fri, Feb 24 2012

Impatient for technological change.

I started this topic a long while ago , but admittedly failed to live up to my hopes. Well here's another one. You know those pills or goo you put on your dog to protect them from fleas, well apparently they also protect from mosquito bites. As I've...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Sep 10 2008

Filed under: Technology, pets

¿Debería el coste de la guerra incluir pagos de intereses?

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 1 de noviembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4697 . Al hacer recuento de los “costes totales” de una operación...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Nov 2 2010

Filed under: Robert Murphy, costes