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The Prearranged, Preplanned, and Premeditated Bailout

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/prearranged-bailout.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Oct 2 2008

Una reforma económica real para un dolorido Haití

Por Richard M. Ebeling. (Publicado el 18 de enero de 2010). Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4035 . Nuestras pantallas de televisión se han visto llenas de esas trágicas...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 19 2010

Filed under: libre mercado, Richard Ebeling, Haití, terremoto

Speech and Sociopaths: Does it make sense to collapse, for Constitutional and legal purposes, the distinctions between human beings and corporate "persons"?

Further to my preceding posts on corporate "free speech" , let me copy here for those interested some parts of a post by legal blogger/law prof Kimberly Hauser , and excerpts of the comment thread (emphasis added). Says Hauser: Justice Kennedy...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 11 2010

Filed under: constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection

Beating Back Conspiracy Theories

I think Cropperb, hits it out of the park here, whatever you may think of his consistent objectivism and anti-libertarian views. In these times when freedom is constantly under attack, where the left and right throws up grand theories on conspiring capitalists...

Posted to Ethics and Economics by fezwhatley on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Filed under: conspiracy theory

Steven Weinberg on Education

A few of my posts have been about education, and about starving workers; so I was happy to come across a 1988 interview (by Bill Moyers with the Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg) that brings the two ideas together. In the middle of the interview...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Dec 22 2007

The Problem

Here’s a perfect example of the economic challenge this country faces. Take a look at the story posted below that I pulled from CNBC. It seems the Federal Reserve can fix anything by simply printing more money. Translation: The sins of the past...

Posted to rrt00004 by rrt00004 on Sun, Aug 7 2011

How To Pay For Healthcare - The Wrong Question

I suppose that in a perfect world everyone would have access to healthcare. Well, then I guess the United States is as close to perfect as anywhere because everyone here has access to healthcare. Just like anyone can buy a car, buy a home, or buy clothes...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Aug 13 2009

Filed under: mortage crisis, Obama, Healthcare, welfare, health care

Worst ways

or, why deledefs love Fiat-money and their money monopoly. Well as we have to realize that we have a debt problem world-wide. (USA > 15 trillions of debt, just remember in June or so they have raised the debt level vom 14 trillions), The EU somewhere...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Nov 18 2011

Filed under: stealing, deledefs, central bank, lies.

If we just ignore BP/corporate lobbying & risk-shifting - and Government's ownership of oil, coal and other natural resources - we can see clearly that enviros just want to destroy civilization

Right? 1. BP Spent $2 Million Lobbying On Offshore Drilling, Spill Liability, Other Regulations In First Quarter Of 2011 (Marcus Baram, Huffington Post, April 21, 2011): (emphasis added) On the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Sir Josiah Child: Falso amigo de la libertad

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 29 de octubre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4701 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, Nov 1 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, mercantilismo, Inglaterra, Josiah Child

Avatar resonates in China - where standing up for property rights (and against "progress") can be downright subversive

It looks as if James Cameron` s Avatar movie - which is seen by many in the West as predictibly shallow, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, pro-enviro and racially politically correct - has struck a home-owners` rights chord that is resonating in China...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 13 2010

Filed under: property rights, China, Kuznets, indigenous, Avatar

A View from the Trenches, September 2nd, 2010: " Beware of coordination"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-02-2010 If we had to use one word to describe the action so far this week, we would pick “confusion”. Perhaps a reflection of it is the number of analysts that updated their...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Sep 2 2010

Wall Street Journal organizes financial industry`s plan to destroy market discipline, take over regulation globally - hello?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Dec 23 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, wsj, limited liability, financial crisis, moral hazard

En defensa de las pérdidas

En épocas tan inciertas como la que estamos viviendo, es común tener que lidiar con una poderosa señal emitida por los mercados: las pérdidas. La opinión popular piensa que estas son algo absolutamente dañinas para la economía y que se debe hacer lo posible...

Posted to Efectos secundarios - Blog escrito por Jorge Ramón Muñoz by Jorge Ramón Muñoz on Thu, Mar 22 2012

2010 Will Be Worse

2010 Will Be Worse By Monty Pelerin , posted January 5th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/05/2010-will-be-worse/ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Despite the rising stock market, virtually everything else continues to deteriorate in the economy...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Jan 5 2010

Filed under: economy, no recovery