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The Vitamin Water Revolution

Everyone is familiar with gas-station drinks. There's the energy drink that claims to be filled with strange substances such as 'taurine', 'ginseng', and the bottle conveys a sense of power and energy. The energy drink is almost always...

Posted to JuliaT by JuliaT on Tue, Nov 20 2007

Filed under: market

Has the "Endkampf" begun?

I wonder if we see the last tries for the social-democratic parties? Just imagine the following two numbers: 8 700 000 000 000 14 000 000 000 000 That are the debts of the EU and the US. Both are currently riding on "experts" like Krugman, which...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, May 11 2010

Filed under: politicians, economy, Debts, piling higher and higher, responsibility, Endkampf

Haters of science? The Bush administration sounds the alarm, "climate change is coming ... and is here!"

Climate change, largely due to human activities, is currently underway, with more very serious - and largely unstoppable changes - expected in the next 25 years, and landowners, communities, farmers, businesses, communities and state and local government...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, May 29 2008

Filed under: AGW, bush, climate change, adaptation, assessment, disinformation

Ilusiones de la época de Keynes

Por Doug French. (Publicado el 25 de enero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4059 . Hace un año, George Melloan escribió en el Wall Street Journal , “Todos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Jan 28 2010

Filed under: crisis, Doug French, keynesianismo, Japón

A View from the Trenches, November 24th 2009: "Introducing Thesis No. 3"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com The widespread impression that the US deficit will continue set all non-money assets on a rally yesterday. Gold reached $1,174/oz. As we said many, many times over, it is as simple...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Nov 24 2009

Finally the Truth is Out

I found a very interesting article today that I feel contains a good analysis of the US current economic situation http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/the_crash_of_2008.html The author correctly analyzes the situation right, but I completely...

Posted to ContumacySince87 by ContumacySince87 on Fri, Nov 16 2007

Filed under: fed, greenspan, inflation

Cordato summarizes Austrian environmentalism

Roy Cordato has cogently summarized his views and the work of his Austrian colleagues here: http://mises.org/story/1760 . Thoughts on what this framework implies for modern issues are welcome. Below are some favorite excerpts, with emphasis added: "Austrian...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Oct 11 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, catallaxy, cordato

Primera universidad privada, gratuita y rentable del mundo nace en Colombia

Tomado de el Diario EL TIEMPO de Bogotá, Colombia Septiembre 15 de 2008 Muhammad Yunus, profesor universitario que ha sacado a 4 millones de familias de la pobreza enseñándoles a construir sus propios sistemas de protección...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Sep 15 2008

What does disturb me most.

Well there are two things Actions of governments Action of central banks Well in this case I will link to a blog in German:http://www.rottmeyer.de/von-sparweltmeistern-und-anderen-erfolgsgeschichten/ The Irish government has started to support renters...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Wed, Apr 25 2012

Filed under: stealing, subsedies, Bastiat, the things one does not see, intereventions

Get yer top climate skeptic arguments here!

Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds - coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications: John Cross: Skeptical Science Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Apr 11 2008

Filed under: science, AGW, climate change, skeptic

Neil Barofsky: Another Financial Crisis All But Inevitable

Hera Research is pleased to present a sobering interview with Neil Barofsky, Senior Research Scholar, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011 Mr. Barofsky served as the Special...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Tue, Sep 18 2012

Filed under: collateralized debt obligations, CDOs, mortgage fraud, Neil Barofsky, fraud, crime, waste, TARP, abuse, New York University School of Law, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, white collar crime, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bailout, securities fraud

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

Cambios cíclicos en condiciones empresariales

Por Ludwig von Mises (Publicado el 13 de febrero de 2012) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5898 . [ The Causes of the Economic Crisis and Other Essays Before and After the Great...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, Feb 13 2012

Filed under: Ludwig von Mises, ciclo económico

Mikhail Bakunin and Collectivist Anarchism

Mikhail Bakunin was the Russian father of the strain of anarchism known as collectivist anarchism. He was initially loosely associated with both Karl Marx and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and eventually he developed anarcho-collectivism using both of them...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Jan 31 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin

[Preface added] IP Flamewars, Community and Principles; A few thoughts to Stephan on "The L. Neil Smith – FreeTalkLive Copyright Dispute"

Stephan/others in the LvMI/libertarian community: I tried to post a long comment on this on July 16, but it got caught in moderation limbo (and though I’ve said a dozen Hail Marys, it’s still stuck), so allow me to note to anyone who hasn’t...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jul 15 2010