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John McCain and Nock

John McCain is an educated man. A highly educated man. A man who has attended many, many classes in manifold schools. And a man with enough (harsh!) first-hand experience of history and of war that he should possess a deep, personal understanding of the...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Nov 29 2007

Why Liberty Fails

Why Liberty Fails By Monty Pelerin , posted March 8th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/08/why-liberty-fails/ Liberty as an Ephemeral Event “If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Mon, Mar 8 2010

Filed under: constitution, founders, liberty, freedom

healthcare not working so well

So much irony in this (now unavailable) story, so little time. Where to begin? After a week of wrangling, the Senate passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments looming for months. But the leffort came too late. [...] That...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Mon, Jun 21 2010

Filed under: politicians

Caplan on culture

A great post on modernity: The total volume is so massive we couldn't consume that top 10% if we tried with all our might... Friedman's problem is that he ignores the countervailing effects of population and wealth. Lots of creative people serving...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Sun, May 31 2009

Filed under: caplan, remix

Orwell y Kosovo

Por Jascha Kessler. (Publicado el 9 de abril de 1999) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/193 . Esta carta apareció en el Wall Street Journal del 9 de abril de 1999: Señor...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Jan 13 2012

Filed under: Jascha Kessler, Kosovo

El Derecho a No Obedecer - IV - Que trata de la inutilidad de las leyes sociales

Presentaremos 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...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Jun 27 2009

Obama Denied Parole

Obama Denied Parole By Monty Pelerin , posted January 29th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/29/obama-denied-parole/ As expected, the State of the Union (SOTU) speech was delivered with the usual élan from the gifted orator, President...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Jan 29 2010

Filed under: obama, State of Union

A View from the Trenches, July 28th, 2009: Motion creates motion

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) With the relative normalization trend in place, a lot of different investment themes start to appear. These themes have a different...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 27 2009

A View from the Trenches, September 21st, 2009: "Central banks close gaps...to stop the flood"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Today’s is unfortunately a short letter, as I have had a very busy week and even busier weekend. Nevertheless, below I describe what I believe was and will be a very relevant...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Sep 20 2009

A View from the Trenches, September 12th, 2011: "The Fed follows the Swiss National Bank"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-12-2011 Today’s comments will be brief. In fact, we will not seek to provide answers but to leave the reader with questions. By now, everyone is surely aware of the decision by the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Sep 12 2011

Economics in One Lesson校译之2. The Broken Window

The Lesson Applied The Broken Window 第二编课程的应用第2章破橱窗 Let us begin with the simplest illustration possible: let us, emulating Bastiat, choose a broken pane of glass. 让我们从一个有可能是最简单的例证入手；我们来效仿法国经济学家巴斯夏，从一面被砸破的橱窗讲起。 A young hoodlum, say, heaves a brick...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Nov 29 2008

Mises's Law

I haven't blogged in about a year, mostly because a friend of mine gave me the complete set of the Great Books (from Brittanica). A gift like that is enough to set one behind for a lifetime, never mind a single year! It's also enough to scramble...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Jul 18 2009

GMU recidivism study

What do researchers with over a million dollars of funding from the National Institute for Health look for first when tracking released inmates? Drum roll please..."are they paying their taxes?" Check it out. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Jan 28 2009

Filed under: recidivism, gmu

Real entrepreneurs don’t take bribes from the state

The Israeli government is trying to lure back some of the hundreds of thousands of Israeli expatriates with “tax breaks, employment and small business loans.” The campaign is set to cost $36 million a year. Israeli politicians must realize on some level...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Mon, Dec 10 2007

Filed under: Kibbutz, enterpreneurship

The Fed Is Nothing But An ATM Machine

By Monty Pelerin , posted December 3rd, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/03/the-fed-is-nothing-but-an-atm-machine/ The Fed has reached the point where there are two choices — Allow the government to shut down or allow itself to be the Treasury’s...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Thu, Dec 3 2009

Filed under: Fed, inflation, bernanke, friedman, Treasury, greenspan