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Shocking the blind to see

Will the agreed $700bn bailout package shock the blind to see when the delayed judgment day arrives? Will people look back when trouble strikes ever more and realize that bailing companies out, inflating the money supply, and trusting the US government...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Sep 25 2008

Obama: Only Capping Health Care Costs?

Don't be a lemming. When some flashy guy in a funny hat starts waving his arms and yelling, "Danger! Danger! Run, run, run! As fast as you can!" take a moment to look around and see where you're going. You might just find there's...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Aug 10 2009

Solutions to the mess

the deledefs have put us into: Introduce sound money. That means "End the Fed", bind the currency to something of value Forbid debt for financing governments If one thinks the state is needed. Introduce one flat tax for financing it. Stop the...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Sun, Jul 10 2011

Filed under: theft, responsibility, fed, sound money, crisis, ways out

The Catholic Church's small problem with institutionalized moral hazard

Power and a lack of accountability: just where might they lead? See Maureen Dowd's June 4th column, An Archbishop Burns While Rome Fiddles . No, of course this is not at all related to the issue of moral hazard in state-created corporations , particularly...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jun 5 2011

Sometimes I'm glad that I'm not "in"

Ah yes it could be also an extension to Lessons. As I wrote I hate Facebook. I'm not a customer nor an "investor". And that's so good. I really am astonished how fast people do forget some devastation of their wealth. Does Internethype...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Wed, May 23 2012

Filed under: defraud successfull, stupidity driven to the max, Facebook, I do not like, I do not believe

The Actual Path

Albert Einstein is widely regarded as the twentieth centuries greatest genius. I would like to posit that this is not true but that title really belongs Richard Phillips Feynman. Dr. Feynman was certainly a curious character. He did not like quantum mechanics...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Sat, Mar 20 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory, Quantitative Austrian Economics, Graph Theory

Society Versus State in Seven Epochs

I perceive political history as Murray Rothbard and Albert Jay Nock perceived it: as a struggle between free society and the state. 1 I do not pretend to be an impartial observer of that struggle. As an amateur historian I aim to be what Lord Acton called...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Sep 25 2009

Filed under: History

Marches and Protests in the U.S.

As an outsider observer, it disturbs me a bit that protest marches are becoming more popular in the US. This reflects a wider disconnection between people and their government. In my Venezuelan case these kinds of marches have occurred nonstop since the...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Sep 17 2009

Filed under: state, protest, marches, healthcare, fortunate, outsider, debatable, afford, polarization, policy, reform

“Free” Booze for State Alcoholics

“Free” Booze for State Alcoholics By Monty Pelerin , posted January 2nd, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/02/free-booze-for-state-alcoholics/ … the stimulus was akin to providing a gift of booze to a recovering alcoholic. The...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Jan 2 2010

Filed under: insolvency, state deficits, WSJ

Numbers of the Future

Numbers of the Future By Monty Pelerin , posted March 24th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/24/numbers-of-the-future/ ‘Rithmetic Is Getting Harder Little did Richard Feynman know when he made his humorous observation how bad things were...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Mar 24 2010

Filed under: inflation, Mises, feynman

Concebida en libertad

Por William Henry Chamberlin (Publicado el 25 de septiembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3716 . Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en el número...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Sep 27 2009

Filed under: The Freeman, Alexis de Tocqueville, Constitución Americana, William Henry Chamberlin

Requirements to be a Deledef (real word for Politicians)?

Really I'm wondering. Is it a requirement for being a Politician to fight markets as much as one possible can (and loose always in the long run?) Can anyone tell me what were the results of the first failout plans for banks? Are they in a better shape...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Wed, Jun 8 2011

Filed under: deledefs, banks, "experts", This time is different, judgement, against the markets

¿Están los Estados Unidos pasando hambre?

Por Jeremie T.A. Rostan (Publicado el 28 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3776 . “Uno de cada ocho estadounidenses pasa hambre”. Si no ha escuchado...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Oct 29 2009

Filed under: hambre, Estados Unidos, Jeremie T.A. Rostan

Capital y producción, de Strigl

Por Jörg Guido Hülsmann. (Publicado el 20 de octubre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/595 . [Enero de 2001] Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891-1942) fue uno de los...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Oct 22 2011

Filed under: prólogo, escuela austriaca, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Richard von Strigl