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More curious blindness to corporate statism, or, fun with Bob Murphy's paid energy/enviro policy posts

I like Bob Murphy , and think he's doing very important work in fighting nonsense from the Fed and from Keynesians. But I am deeply disappointed with his ongoing shallow, partisan and decidedly non-libertarian work that he does for pay for the fossil...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 11 2011

Times are a-changin'?! 'The American Conservative' runs Sheldon Richman's sympathetic view of the "Libertarian Left"

Wow -- The American Conservative is now running a sympathetic overview by Sheldon Richman on the " Libertarian Left " (subheading, Free-market anti-capitalism, the unknown ideal ). Have conservatives lost their senses, or have they come to realize...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 11 2011

Be cautious

whom you choose as friend. If this "friend" is named USA, you may get knee deep into trouble sooner than later. 30 years Mubarak was the "fighter" for the interests of the USA. Now a few days ago, they demanded him to step back. And...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Feb 11 2011

Filed under: USA, Mubarak, be cautious, look-out, Friends, take care

A View from the Trenches, February 11th, 2011: "Adapting to passive money"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-11-2011 Just after our last letter on Monday, when we wrote that “…out of China, we expect no news on rates or credit manipulation (i.e. reserve requirement ratios) until March…”...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Feb 10 2011

Dos visiones para Europa

Por Philipp Bagus. (Publicado el 7 de febrero de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5003 . [Extraído de Tragedy of the Euro (2010)] Ha habido una lucha entre los defensores...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Feb 10 2011

Filed under: Philipp Bagus, Europa

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

LVMI's curious blindness to corporate statism and the rot caused by limited liability, or, Jeffrey Tucker has fun with central planning

Jeffrey Tucker 's February 9 Mises Daily post, Obama on Auto-Defrosting Refrigerators , is perfectly fine and unobjectionable (quibbles aside about Jeffrey's startling misunderstanding of Obama's claims regarding the entirely voluntary EnergyStar...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 9 2011

George Carlin was correctly cynical about 'the American Dream', but are our elites monolithic?

I recently ran across (again) the below clip by our now deceased comedian cum truth-teller, George Carlin . While he offers some refreshingly bitter criticism, Carlin is too simplistic and too black, and offers no particular avenues by which informed...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Feb 8 2011

Frases pronunciadas en la Primera Reunión de la Sociedad “Propiedad y Libertad”

Bodrum, Turquía, mayo de 2006 [Notas compiladas por Robert Grözinger] Al comienzo de su discurso de clausura, Hans-Hermann Hoppe afirmó que la respuesta a la pregunta “cómo triunfar?” significa responder a la pregunta...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, Feb 8 2011

If you are not responsible for what you do

then who can care if they get a few extra billions bonus payments. Dafür aber in saftiger Höhe von bis zu sechs Milliarden Pfund (7,12 Milliarden Euro). from http://www.fr-online.de/wirtschaft/krise/milliarden-boni-fuer-banker/-/1471908/7160760/-/index...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Feb 8 2011

Filed under: high bonus payments, 7120000000 reasons more to hate Politicians

A View from the Trenches, February 7th, 2011: "Green light until March?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-7-2011 We start this week with what we ended the last one. In our view, the two main concerns or sources of volatility that remain from last week are the situation in Egypt and the uncertainty...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Feb 6 2011

BBC's naive 'Meet the Climate Sceptics' ignores that our governments today richly deserve the mistrust that makes collective action impossible

In the not-unsympathetic hour-long presentation that BBC broadcast on January 31 (after surviving a legal challenge ), climate 'skeptic' Christopher Monckton (the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) says something about climate science that I can...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Feb 5 2011

¿Qué hay de malo en el crecimiento económico?

Por Antony P. Mueller. (Publicado el 10 de agosto de 2005) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/1877 . El crecimiento económico sirve como patrón principal para medir el...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Feb 5 2011

Filed under: Antony Mueller, crecimiento

Crítica de libros: The Case Against Adolescence

Por Doug French. (Publicado el 7 de enero de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3289 . [ The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen • Robert Epstein...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Feb 4 2011

Filed under: crítica de libros, Doug French, adolescencia, Robert Epstein

La falsa ilusión del crédito

Por Christopher Mayer (Publicado el 20 de diciembre de 2000) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/859 . “En todas partes las ilusiones de la vida son del mismo tipo, la variedad...