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Forget Mt. Vernon; see the Campaign for Liberty's Principles

Readers might have heard that Republican conservatives - who hope to retake control of Congress and the White House, head off/engulf TeaParty reformers, and thence to further drive the federal government into the ground - have joined together in announcing...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 19 2010

You Can't Force People to Value "Health"

Over on the LRC blog, Karen De Coster wrote a post covering the news that Los Angeles authorities are going to ban the opening of new fast food restaurants within a 32-square-mile area of the city. Karen then pointed out that: "Obesity and the non...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Fri, Jul 25 2008

Filed under: regulation

Hell and High Water: in the summer of our discontent, has anyone noticed the very strange weather?

Well, yes, indeed; many have - not the least the Russians experiencing weeks of never-before-experienced hellish temperatures and the Pakistanis with floods covering a fifth or more of their country. We also had floods battering New England , then Nashville...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Aug 18 2010

A View from the Trenches, July 29th, 2009: "On systemic risk and savings"

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) This is turning out to be a tedious week, with a mix of different readings on macro data about the housing market, the shape of...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Teaching & The Market Price

It's very common to hear something like the following: "How can someone like Adam Sandler make $20 million per movie, while a teacher makes a pittance?" This is usually followed by a declaration on how everyone's priorities are messed...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sun, Aug 17 2008

Filed under: free market

A View from the Trenches, September 29th, 2009: "A thought on a convertible Euro"

A rare congruence of factors has taken place in the last 24 hours, allowing Treasuries to gain (flatter yield curve) the USD to weaken, and US stocks to gain a bit of what was lost last week. As I mentioned yesterday, there is a lot happening these days...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Sep 28 2009

El problema real de Weiner

Por Gregory Bresiger. (Publicado el 23 de junio de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5400 . La ridícula tragedia de Anthony Weiner es más que un escándalo...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, Feb 6 2012

Filed under: política, Gregory Bresiger, Anthony Weiner

Negando el consentimiento al Khan

Por Peter C. Earle. (Publicado el 6 de febrero de 2012) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5886 . La gente de todo el mundo (en Estados Unidos, la Eurozona, Asia, África, Oriente...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Feb 7 2012

Filed under: Gaikathu, mongoles, Peter C. Earle, papel moneda

Pete asked about Seasteading.

And my response : I don't think secession type movements can sustain on ideology alone. So I'll ignore it momentarily. My first impression is that Tiebout competition would drive "good" results. Regardless of whether the heads of such...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Tue, Aug 11 2009

Filed under: sea steading

Y'all ain't Japanese

A national economy is made up of many organisations and individuals. The activities of some will be profitable and the activities of others will not. The mechansim which ensures that the majority of activities in an economy are profitable (and thus the...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Dec 18 2008

The Effects of Public Policy on Private Activity

The Effects of Public Policy on Private Activity by Alex Merced One of the problems of people who advocate for a growing role of government is that they operate in a mindset of unlimited resources, or that a growth in government has little to no effect...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Wed, Apr 21 2010

Filed under: Public Sector, Private Sector, Current, Future, Time, Borrowing, Taxing

the forgotten man of health care

The New York Times , in its article about the president signing the new health care bill , talked about a "select group of ordinary Americans" who attended the ceremony, who had become a "case in point for Mr. Obama" in his quest to...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Thu, Mar 25 2010

Filed under: sumner, politicians, legislation is not morality

The Way Out

Yesterday's post was titled, Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall! A reader, Marty Yost, was kind enough to post a comment stating that he agreed with my assessment and was impressed with the analysis I applied to the problem. I appreciate the sentiment...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Nov 11 2009

Filed under: Obama, Conservatism, Liberalism

Here We Go

So I've decided to start writing a blog. I have no idea how often I'll make updates. I have no clear idea what they'll be about, although I can imagine blogging on certain issues, especially for future reference, and also on certain things...

Posted to The Desolate One by Thedesolateone on Wed, Mar 18 2009

Here we go again....

The car crushing ideas are back. I knew these were coming and first learned of the proposals not too long after the election. Now they are getting more serious about it. From an LRC blog post I read about the latest ideas to crush older cars. Crushing...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Sat, Jan 31 2009