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"Economic insight and analysis"? Statist voicepiece WSJ headlines Broken Window Fallacy nonsense: Oil Spill May End Up Lifting GDP Slightly!

Shameful. See for yourselves. (Yes, another BP post !)

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 18 2010

Wisdom: Marxian Political Observations

Wisdom: Marxian Political Observations By Monty Pelerin , posted February 21st, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/02/21/wisdom-marxian-politics/ Image via Wikipedia As an economist, I am frequently asked about the economics of Marx. I generally nod...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sun, Feb 21 2010

Filed under: politics, marx

Brilliant business plan

I have a business plan for a short-term profit: Invent an improved version of a popular commodity product and protect it with patents Lobby politicians to ban the cheap commodity version in the name of environmentalism Force consumers to upgrade to your...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Wed, Jan 2 2008

Changing Perspectives, Part 3

I went to grade school back in the seventies which means I’m really old, if not ancient. It also means I went through the horror of the disco era and lived to tell about it. But it also means that I was exposed to something we don’t talk about...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 18 2009

The Best Example Yet ...

... of lemming-like behavior among humans. dirt 1234345.html No exposition necessary. - Futbol Guru

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Jan 14 2009

Another tech idea I'd love to see

If a hurricane hits your neighborhood dead on then your top concern is probably your house and furniture (other precious items can be taken along in an evacuation). But when the hurricane doesn't do much pervasive damage, the priorities and burdens...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Sep 11 2008

Filed under: Technology, hurricanes

The Relative Virtues of the Common Criminal

The only difference between the taxing state and a robber is that the former, through its apologists (ancient priests, modern experts, etc) makes you think its for your own good, and subjects you to a greater variety of injustice. In fact, the comparison...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: Political Philosophy

El Derecho a No Obedecer - VI - El hombre y sus necesidades

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 Sat, Jun 27 2009

Chinese- Family introductions

Chinese- Family introductions In China today, women do not change their surnames after they get married. They always keey their maiden names. People like to ask questions such as " 你结婚了吗 ?"(Nǐ jiéhūn le ma?), Are you married? e.g. 这是我...

Posted to sinocenter by sinocenter on Wed, Sep 16 2009

What Jacques Rueff would have said about today's currency swaps announcement for the ECB

From an Interview with The Economist, "Return to Gold—Argument with Jacques Rueff," 13 February 1965, reproduced in “The Monetary Sin of the West” J. Rueff, The MacMillan Co., 1972. (This book is in pdf format at Mises Institute's...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, May 10 2010

The Prearranged, Preplanned, and Premeditated Bailout

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/prearranged-bailout.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Oct 2 2008

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

A View from the Trenches, December 12th, 2011: "The Fed already started QE3, but in the Eurozone"

Click here to read this article in pdf format: december-12-2011 By now, we assume our readers are acquainted with the tragicomic nature of the political events last week. Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), during the press conference...

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

A line by line critique on Obama's Economic Ad

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Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Wed, Sep 17 2008

Filed under: statism, Obama, critique

The Contribution of Menger

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from the introduction . Previously in this series: Blogging Menger , a preface to this series of posts. The great Austrian Economist Friedrich...

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

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics