Blogs

¿Por qué ya no son tan importantes los Impuestos?

Mises.org - Artículo Diario por Jeffrey Tucker - Publicado el 8/28/2008 [Este artículo se publicó originalmente en InsideCatholic.com] Los asesores en el tema de impuestos de Barack Obama recientemente publicaron un escrito en el...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Aug 30 2008

Anarchism As Skepticism

"The government is necessary. The government is legitimate. Democracy is representative of the people. Democracy is the best form of government. Majority rule is legitimate. Checks and balances actually function. Voting is meaningful or even an obligation...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Aug 29 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Atheism, Libertarianism, Philosophy

Job Creation, Job Deletion

The thought of "job creation"—you know, such as how Barack Obama or John McCain are going to create "such-and-such number of new jobs" to stimulate the economy—has been on my mind a lot recently. It's probably because...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Aug 28 2008

Filed under: Chris Morris, job deletion, FDA, job placement, Brass Eye, job creation

The New American Dream

I had a thought today about writing a story about the true new American dream. The lede of the story begins: My father was a self-made man—everything he made, everything he earned, he made and earned of his own accord. And from as early as I could...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Aug 28 2008

Filed under: selfishness, American dream

In Defense of Advertising

Advertising receives a lot of criticism. So I decided to put down my thoughts. Below is a fictional conversation that tries to get my views across: Don't you hate how these big corporations make us buy their junk? What do you mean by "make us"...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Aug 25 2008

Filed under: free market

El Empirismo, un escudo intelectual del socialismo

Publicado originalmente en The Free Market , Febrero 1988 Volumen VI, Número 2. por Hans-Hermann Hoppe En comparación con la vida en los países occidentales, donde el sector socialista es importante, la vida bajo el socialismo total...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sun, Aug 24 2008

The Headroom Between Mutualism and Anarcho-capitalism

I find it inaccurate to use either the terms "anarcho-capitalism" or "mutualism" to describe my own viewpoint. Being a pluralist as well as a person with a fairly complex and subtle heirarchy of preferances that may situationally change...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Aug 24 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Libertarianism, Economics, Labor, Anarcho-Capitalism, Mutualism

The Commodity Correction

I've been reading a lot of great pieces on whether or not the commodity bull market has come to an end. Here are links to some of my favorite writers: Peter Schiff (Bull) Jim Rogers (Bull) Gary North (Bear) Marc Faber (Bear) If I had to throw my hat...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Aug 23 2008

Filed under: gold, oil, commodities

More on Manzi/Cato on climate

A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 22 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Cato, Manzi, Joe Romm

Libertarismo: de Izquierda o de Derecha?

por Sheldon Richman . Mi visión de la política es que se mueve en una línea recta en vez de moverse en un círculo. La línea recta se extiende desde el extremo derecho donde (históricamente) encontramos la monarquía...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Wed, Aug 20 2008

Do People "Naturally" Desire Gold?

This writer seems to think so. He states: Gold's 'value' is embedded in human history and collective psychology. Gold derives its economic value from the basic human urge to possess it. It is this natural ability of drawing human possessiveness...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Wed, Aug 20 2008

Filed under: gold

Cato ... takes climate change seriously, and devotes latest online issue to it

The Cato Institute has dedicated its entire current monthly issue of Cato Unbound , its online forum, to discussing policy responses to ongoing climate change. The issue, entitled " Keeping Our Cool: What to Do about Global Warming ", contains...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Aug 19 2008

Filed under: AGW, climate change, adaptation, Cato, mitigation

We're all Speculators

Whenever the price of something moves in the opposite direction of what the establishment would like to see, you can count on 'speculators' taking the blame. After all, 'speculators' seem like such an easy target. The term refers to no...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Aug 19 2008

Filed under: stock market

Running, the State, and Liu Xiang

A few months ago, at the urging of a friend, I abandoned my bike-riding routine in favor of running. This was a fortuitous decision; I am now in much better shape and stand to make much more improvement still. Over the course of the past several months...

Posted to Fragmented Obsessions by Michael Lawrence on Mon, Aug 18 2008

Filed under: economics, socialism, running, central planning

Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments

[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Aug 18 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Nordhaus, risk, Manzi