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Boycott China and India?

"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, boycott

El regulado mercado de los seguros

Por Jan Iwanik. (Publicado el 17 de noviembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/3824 . Los seguros inmobiliarios y de accidentes reducen la exposición a ciertos riesgos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Nov 17 2009

Filed under: Jan Iwanik, seguros

La estadística: El talón de Aquiles del gobierno

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 17 de mayo de 2007) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2589 . [Este ensayo se publicó en Essays on Liberty , VIII (Irvington-on-Hudson...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Oct 23 2011

Filed under: The Freeman, Murray Rothbard, estadística

¿Por qué ya no son tan importantes los Impuestos?

Mises.org - Artículo Diario por Jeffrey Tucker - Publicado el 8/28/2008 [Este artículo se publicó originalmente en InsideCatholic.com] Los asesores en el tema de impuestos de Barack Obama recientemente publicaron un escrito en el...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Aug 30 2008

Oz as Allegory

Oz as Allegory [This is an undergraduate paper for a film studies class entitled American Classic Cinema.] L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), is a dazzling story of an adolescent who wishes to get away, far away, but soon...

Posted to Brent Mowery by Brent Mowery on Sun, May 2 2010

Filed under: wizard of oz allegory l. frank baum 19th century william jennings bryan free silver bimetallism

More carbon tax advocacy, this time from Jerry Taylor/Cato, in a piece criticizing Pickens' plan

Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 30 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, Pickens, Jerry Taylor, Cato, wind

My predictions

just to keep that written down. I know no deledef will read it and no-one will agree. But be it as is. The path is crystal clear IMHO. I wrote yesterday about inflation. And there's a clear evidence for it that prices start running (if they start...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Thu, Feb 3 2011

Filed under: stealing, inflation, the next decade, raising prices, fixed exchange rates, Predictions, capital control, the next years

La economía de la abundancia

Por Friedrich A. Hayek. (Publicado el 19 de mayo de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5282 . [Extraído de The Critics of Keynesian Economics (1960)] Ocasionalmente puede...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, May 20 2011

Filed under: keynesianismo, Friedrich Hayek

¿Por qué murió el Gobierno Limitado?

Escrito por Alberto Mansueti, miembro fundador de "Rumbo Propio" Toda doctrina política se apoya en una visión de la naturaleza del hombre y por tanto de la sociedad humana, de la cual es tributaria inseparable. El Liberalismo...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Feb 7 2009

Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or managing/enclosing the commons?

Dave Neiwert , a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus . http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 15 2008

Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, Dave Neiwert, fisheries

El mercado de los seguros de salud no es libre

Por Anton Batey. (Publicado el 28 de septiembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/story/3727 . Con el plan sanitario del gobierno amenazándonos, quizá no haya momento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Sep 30 2009

Filed under: sanidad, Anton Batey

Why Financial Repression Will Fail

Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Nov 16 2012

Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, IMF, Great Depression, CDS, unemployment, debt monetization, too big to fail, International Monetary Fund, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, MBS, mortgage backed securities, over the counter derivatives, European Central Bank, ECB, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, bank failure, credit default swaps, BDI, monetary policy, OMT, recession, stock market crash, liquidity, QE3, quantitative easing III, systemic collapse, outright monetary transactions, market intervention, stagflation, tax increases, austerity measures, savings, U.S. Treasury, bank credit, stagnation, economic opportunity, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, instability, entrepreneurship, public funds, jobs, financial crisis, operation twist, bond yields, living standards, financial repression, Carmen M. Reinhart, OTC derivatives. Glass-Steagall Act, interest rates, net loss, middle class, consumer incomes, innovation, economic recovery

Gene Callahan: public moral opprobrium is an appropriate non-statist lever against climate change

I previously noted Gene Callahan`s interesting essay , "How a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming" , in the October 2007 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , at the website of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). While I haven...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 1 2008

Filed under: AGW, Callahan, climate change, moral pressure

Note to Larry Lessig: Shall we amend the Constitution, but ignore possible reforms to limited liability corporation laws in the fifty states?

[Note: Cross-posted from my HLS blog .] When Larry Lessig launched his " Anti-Corruption Pledge" last year, I commented on the Wiki page he set up for it , and left a copy in an earlier blog post . Larry responded the next day. I copy here both...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Apr 22 2013

Explotando la burbuja de Eugene Fama

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 15 de febrero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4056 . En una reciente entrevista en el New Yorker , Eugene Fama, economista de la Escuela...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Feb 16 2010

Filed under: crisis, Robert Murphy, hipótesis de los mercados eficientes, Eugene Fama