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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.

Obama & opposition in Venezuela / Obama y la oposición en Venezuela

Dear Sirs Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Other Government Institutions and President of the Republic Hugo Chávez I am finally writing to you today because, after so many years of manifesting my strongest opposition to the way in which Venezuela has...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Wed, Nov 5 2008

A tenate of Liberty

this is a response to one of my more moderate friends in a private message. I thought it to be worthy of general publication, so here is a short excerpt. One of the main tenants of my philosophy is that we do not have positive rights but only negative...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Sun, Mar 23 2008

Filed under: equality, crime, liberty, rights, justice, hippies

A View from the Trenches, April 30th, 2012:" Growth Pact? What Growth Pact?"

If we have to summarize what drove the action last week, we will say it was the speculation over an upcoming (perhaps in June) Growth Pact in the Euro-zone. That was all. That did the trick. There is really nothing, absolutely nothing concrete. And no...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Apr 30 2012

Una explicación, para no expertos, a la coyuntura financiera internacional

Tomado del Blog de Leopoldo Abadía por Lorena Ramirez-Giraldo Antecedentes 2001: Explosión de la burbuja Internet. 2005-2007: La Reserva Federal baja el precio del dinero del 6.5 % al 1 %. Con una tasa de interés para hipotecas tan...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Oct 11 2008

Larry Lessig sounds Libertarian; says it's time to "strike at the root" of evil of a corporate-funded "marionette government"

I've discussed previously other pieces of commentary by Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig (now director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard; formerly internet guru at Stanford Law School). Lessig is now focussed on how corporate influence...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 5 2011

Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info

"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin Consistent with its mission to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google , whose climate change-related efforts...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Feb 17 2009

Filed under: power, obama, Google, smart grid, climate change

[Update] Rot at the core: Paul Volker notes that something is wrong with incentives, but can`t quite put his finger on it; guess that means MORE regulation

[Update: Links fixed] Bloomberg reported on March 6 that Former Fed Chairman Paul Volker, in proposals to the Obama administration regarding financial regulatory reform that were included in a January report he wrote with the "Group of 30",...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Mar 7 2009

Filed under: limited liability, moral hazard, Volker

Benjamin Tucker: American Anarchist

Benjamin Tucker was arguably the leading figure of individualist anarchism in America in the 19th century. He was the editor and chief of the classic anarchist periodical "Liberty", which involved many key figures in early individualist anarchism...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 29 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Coercive Monopoly, Natural Rights, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Labor, Free Trade, History, Anarcho-Capitalism, Mutualism, Murray Rothbard, Egoism, Max Stirner, Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, Natural Law

HAPPY NEW YEAR, NOW GO TO THE BOMB SHELTER

HAPPY NEW YEAR, NOW GO TO THE BOMB SHELTER By Monty Pelerin , posted January 1st, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/01/happy-new-year-now-go-to-the-bomb-shelter/ Stock your bunker. 2010 is apt to be ground zero for financial markets. Sixty years...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Jan 1 2010

Filed under: insolvency, Depression, dollar collapse, recession

It has been a while but in socialist time all is happening really fast

From the ruins (or at least in the near future) I am trying to write something that captures what I am living and at the same time reflects what I am thinking, but none of the experiences I am about to live in this year will compare to what I have lived...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Mon, Jan 12 2009

Filed under: step by step, socialism, venezuela

If you don't like it...

I'm reading through Thomas DiLorenzo's contribution to the recently published Hoppe Festschrifft and a thought suddenly occurs to me. It occurred as I read through the section on secession and how public choice theorists ignore secession and focus...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Aug 5 2009

Filed under: secession

5 Keys to a Successful Financial System?

This just stated in my Econ 324 class, American Economic and Business History: These are the necessary components of a "good" financial system. Stable public finance and debt managements Stable money supply functioning banking system effective...

Posted to My Two Cents... by csullivan on Fri, Oct 5 2007

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

Women On Subs, Dumbest Idea Ever

Horrified. That is the only word I can use to describe what I felt when I read that the military is going to allow women to serve on submarines. News on this potentially catastrophic decision can be found in many places and here is a link to just one...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 24 2010

Filed under: Navy, women, submarine