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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

El Socialismo es un Error Intelectual, una Imposibilidad Científica

Conferencia de Jesús Huerta de Soto en San Pablo CEU No hay nada más práctico que una buena teoría. Por eso, me propongo explicar en términos teóricos qué es el socialismo y por qué es un error intelectual...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Aug 14 2008

City of Denver prepares concentration camp for Democratic National Convention protesters

The government loves the opportunity to arrest people. Ever see those guys on the TV show COPS? They think they’re doing us good when they arrest some dude who was going 7mph over the speed limit and just happened to have a small joint of marijuana...

Posted to Fragmented Obsessions by Michael Lawrence on Wed, Aug 13 2008

Filed under: die Polizei, police

Land of the Free, or Home of the Slave?

New York's robotic Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in the news peddling a new government surveillance program which is being introduced in New York City. Honestly, this is ridiculous. And don't give me the speech about safety. The Revolutionary War...

Posted to Fragmented Obsessions by Michael Lawrence on Tue, Aug 12 2008

Naomi Klein's book on the Shock Doctrine

A few months ago a dear friend bought me Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine . I think he knew that parts of this book would resonate with me, and they do. What the U.S. government and the CIA have done to promote “freedom” is despicable...

Posted to Fragmented Obsessions by Michael Lawrence on Tue, Aug 12 2008

Filed under: shock doctrine, economics

Lower Oil is Not a "Tax Cut"

The fact that the price of oil has dropped considerably does not constitute any kind of "tax cut." When the price of oil increases once again, are we supposed to call it a tax increase ? How did the price of oil get singled out for such a distinction...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Aug 12 2008

Filed under: oil, taxation

La Universidad Wal-Mart

por Gary North DE FRENTE A LA REALIDAD Número 776 - Primero de agosto de 2008 ... ... No más aeeh aeh aeeh aeh oah ! Obtuve mi doctorado en 1972. Lo que voy a describir a continuación es académicamente factible. Sin duda también...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Aug 11 2008

Friedman: Energy taxes have destroyed Denmark - not

Thomas Friedman has an op-ed at the New York Times that describes some of Denmark's energy taxation and alternative energy policies . No doubt these policies created distortions and in some ways left Denmark less wealthy than if such policies had...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Aug 10 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Friedman

Early bird gets WAR CE

On a lighter note than usual, one of the games I've been looking forward to is Warhammer Online. It seems basically Warcraft, minus the small fact that Warcraft is in fact a cheap rip-off of it. I'm not much of the MMORPG enthusiast, but I'm...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sat, Aug 9 2008

Filed under: Disappointed

Chris Horner/CEI: Confused or alarmist on Kuznets, China and climate?

The right-wing Business & Media Institute has published a rather confused piece by Chris Horner , senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , in which Horner, while noting China's progress along the environmental Kuznets curve (as...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Aug 9 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Pat Michaels, Knappenberger, China, Horner, Kuznets

Tackling a Stock Market Myth

Stock Prices Up = Good Stock Prices Down = Bad Is this correct? Anyone familiar with shorting knows that it's not correct. Some people make a very good living profiting off price declines. Try telling them that lower prices are bad. However, if you...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Aug 9 2008

Filed under: stock market

Demand Destruction = Poor Choice of Words

The term "Demand Destruction" strikes me as a bit absurd. For example, let's say Bob & Joe are going to make a simple trade. Bob produces apples and Joe gives haircuts. The terms of the trade are 10 apples for 1 haircut. Bob's supply...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Fri, Aug 8 2008

Filed under: inflation, supply and demand

Has the "Oil Bubble" popped?

Since the price of oil has finally broken to the downside, I've seen a lot of talk of how the "oil bubble" has finally popped. What's interesting to me is the exact opposite occured when the stock market initially broke back in 2000...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Thu, Aug 7 2008

Filed under: oil

Open letter response to Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" proposed 10-year transition to "clean" power

I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Aug 6 2008

Filed under: AGW, climate change, Coal, Al Gore, nuclear, alternative, Cathy Zoi

Op-ed by nuclear physicist on climate change: questions for "skeptics"

John P. Holdren , an MIT and Stanford -trained nuclear physicist who is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of Harvard's Woods Hole Research Center , former President...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Aug 5 2008

Filed under: yandle, AGW, adler, Dolan, Richman, Callahan, climate change, skeptic, Holdren, crutzen