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A View from the Trenches, May 6th, 2010: "A Contrarian View"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-6-2010 We wanted to publish our letter yesterday, but given the volatility in the markets, we thought it would be more appropriate to let 24 hrs. pass by before publishing. We will mince no words...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, May 6 2010

Fighting for Whose Rights?

I've often heard, "Go ahead and protest the war, but remember that they are fighting for your right to do so." Is this really true? I have no doubt that some truly believe this; however, they are mistaken and/or misled. Often this response...

Posted to Veritas by zsignal on Fri, Nov 30 2007

Filed under: rights, free speech, war

Inflation Around The World

Ah, the power of the printing press! This site is chock full of hilarious comments on currencies around the world, with an obvious anti-inflationary bias. Definitely worth some surfin' when you have some time to kill.

Posted to Ronorama by Ronorama on Fri, Jan 18 2008

ESPN "Fighting for Our Country"

I'm watching the Liberty Bowl on ESPN this afternoon and the commentator states that one of the players, and I paraphrase, was over in Iraq fighting for our country. We Austrians know that that is a ludicrous statement but there could be three reasons...

Posted to Cigars, Scotch and Anarchy by libertyboom on Sat, Dec 29 2007

Filed under: Iraq, war, ESPN

Greed!

Greed is a deadly sin, and it is an oft-propagated malapropos market malapropism. This will be a short post with one question. How can sellers be greedy when buyers determine prices?

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, May 17 2008

Filed under: sellers, greed, prices, buyers

More redistribution = more fairness?

Is that really what's keeping the world spinning? Let as assume that this would be true. Then there could be just one way. Every income (well what worth would it be?) must be 100 % taxed away. And then everyone get's the same amount of "money"...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Jul 13 2010

Filed under: democracy good-bye, redistribution, 100 % tax

Unrelated?

Just am puzzling there was a survey among the German "politicians" (as you know I prefer to name them deledefs (democratic legitimated defrauders)). They think their influence is "minimal". What the hell? Who did us all the "bad"...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Thu, Feb 10 2011

Filed under: responsibility, it's not our fault

Lo humanitario de la guillotina

Por Isabel Paterson. (Publicado el 18 de octubre de 2007) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2739 . [Extraído de The God of the Machine , 1943] La mayoría de daño...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Dec 10 2011

Filed under: filantropía, Isabel Paterson

Inalienability

There recently has been a lot of discussion and debate among libertarians online about self-ownership, rights, responsibility, voluntary slavery and inalienability. I think that this has helped reveal some significant flaws in the way that certain libertarians...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Feb 13 2009

Filed under: Slavery, Libertarianism, Contract, Personal Responsibility, Alienation, Rights, Inalienability

Luboš Motl 3: This lover of freedom and hater of irrationality can`t stand discourse and fantasizes about elimination

I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 8 2008

Filed under: tribalism, AGW, cognition, climate change, skeptic, Lubos Motl

Mises U ?

Just curious about Mises U. I looked into it and it would cost a minimum of $2,650.00 for me to be able to go. As it is now I just can't justify the expediture (I would make a great president wouldn't I?). But I am willing to listen to arguements...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Fri, Sep 26 2008

Filed under: Mises University.

Historic Times: Larry Lessig calls for Constitutional Convention to fix our corrupt, broken government

Lessig doesn' expressly say it, but we also need to rein in the "self-evident", "unalienable rights" of all corporations Actually, the last quip in the title are my words, not Lessig's. Last week, I noted Harvard law prof Lawrence...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 10 2010

Filed under: rent-seeking, corporations, religion, constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection

Destroying the salmon; the socialized commons and climate change

More later . We need to go back to the past .

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jun 16 2008

Filed under: commons, fisheries, climate change, Salmon

To David Suissa: imagine not simply peace-seeking Arab moderates, but an end to funding of intransigence by the US, EU & Japan

The Ha`aretz newspaper kindly sent by email a piece, " We Need ‘A Street,’ Not J Street ", by David Suissa , that is apparently his weekly column for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal . In his personal blog (under " The Banality...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Nov 6 2009

Filed under: Rabin, Palestine, Israel, David Suissa

Statism & clear partisan blindness: Joe Romm, Steven Milloy and ethical certainty over problems stemming from lack of competition in power markets

Joe Romm of Climate Progress has a new post up that lambasts a recent WaPo op-ed by "environmental ethicist" David Henderson . Romm provides useful information on the relative efficacy of government technology forcing efforts, but comes down...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Oct 4 2009

Filed under: power, Joe Romm, Steven Milloy, monopoly