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ferrochrome

Sometimes I think what commodity to specialize on. There are the opportunities with precious metals and stones. There is certainly money to be made. But then there are use metals and there will be always a sustainable demand for those. So I am considering...

Posted to Torsten by Torsten on Mon, Nov 24 2008

Filed under: ferroalloys, ferrochrome, metals

Facts, distortions, and the coming auto company bailout

The debate continues, among the economically illiterate lawmakers in Washington, D.C. About whether or not the Federal government should make some $25 billion available to the Detroit automakers to, supposedly, enable them to remain in business. As part...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Sun, Nov 23 2008

Filed under: politics, economics, auto industry

Quienes son los dueños de los bancos de la Reserva Federal?

por Andy Gause Escrito en Octubre de 2003 Los bancos de la Reserva Federal son consorcios privados controlados por 8 familias que tienen la mayoría de sus acciones: Los Rothschilds de Inglaterra y Alemania, Moses Seif de Italia, Los hermanos Lazard...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sun, Nov 23 2008

Shoring up

Why is it that I keep hearing the U.S. has the strongest economy in the world, but that it needs shoring up? Seems like cognitive dissonance.

Posted to econbuff by econbuff on Fri, Nov 21 2008

Filed under: economy

Fauxtography? While the oceans swim in plastics, Pollowitz calls those who photograph the results liars

In a brief comment entitled " Fauxtography ?" in the conservative National Review blog on November 18, Greg Pollowitz (founder/CEO of iQ Venture Partners Inc.), remarks on a recent article and photo purporting to show the fatal ingestion of...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Nov 21 2008

Filed under: ocean, pollution, birds, plastic, Pollowitz

Graduating Early

A common option for high school students is the ability to graduate one or even two semesters early. This enables them to get a head start on college or even work in the months leading up to college to help afford the mountainous expenses they will surely...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Thu, Nov 20 2008

Producción Mundial de Inflación - Fondo Monetario Internacional

por Henry Hazlitt Originalmente publicado en The FREEMAN , en Agosto de 1971, traducido y publicado en la Revista del CEES de Guatemala - Año: 14 , Abril 1972 No. 268 La última crisis monetaria ilustra una vez más la poca solidez...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Nov 20 2008

Jackson Browne v. Ohio GOP and John McCain

Last August, the Ohio Republican Party released a campaign commercial in support of Senator John McCain's campaign for the presidency. One of the music used in the campaign commercial in a thirty-second snippet is Jackson Browne's song Running...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, Nov 20 2008

Filed under: copyfight

CEI joins enviros and others in broad coalition to LOBBY against ethanol subsidies

The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Conservative Union have joined with environmental groups such as the Earth Policy Institute and the Environmental Working Group and with meat growers, food processors and others in the " Food...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 19 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, ethanol

Competition and Cooperation

In the economic sense of the term, competition refers to the incentive to better appease a multiplicity of demands, and cooperation refers to the most efficient and ethical means of meeting such demands. An individual's demands are better met through...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Nov 19 2008

Filed under: Coercive Monopoly, Competition, Decentralization, Centralization, Monopoly, Checks and Balances, Means and Ends, Social Contract, Consent, Economics, Free Association

Bob Murphy in Forbes: no to "green" jobs, but otherwise? No advice

Kudos to Robert P. Murphy for a new opinion piece dated Novermber 15 in Forbes.com regarding "The High Costs Of 'Green Recovery'" . The biographical note appended to the piece describes Bob as "a senior economist with the Institute...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 19 2008

Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, climate change, Bob Murphy, green

El Fracaso del Estado "Social"

por el Profesor Jesús Huerta de Soto El descalabro político, económico y social del socialismo en los países de la Europa del Este está afectando profundamente a aquellos teóricos occidentales que aún siguen...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, Nov 18 2008

El Gobierno vs. el Estado

Por John Cobin, Ph.D. para The Times Examiner 19 de Enero, 2005 Albert Jay Nock (1870-1947), aunque relativamente desconocido el día de hoy, fue uno de los periodistas y filósofos políticos más destacados de su tiempo. Fundó...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, Nov 18 2008

USP v. Durkee: Copyright Infringement Claim Threatens Free Speech

Unsurprisingly, the Union Square Partnership (USP) utilized the egregious violation of basic rights that is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to shut down a website parodying its own official website. Savitri Durkee, an activist concerned about...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Tue, Nov 18 2008