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Well it can' be a suprise to anyone, "The just state" is on it's way. Now every larger central bank is in full "let's print us out of this mess" mode. Which just shows, the desparation. They print more and expect to "print" debts away. That surely won't work...
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Hey Guys, Just wanted to tell you guys about a great new resource to educate people who don't know much about economics by just telling them to go to econtoons.com which goes to youtube playlist of many economics related cartoons to illustrate and educate on many fundamental concepts. Alex Merced
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Bill Clinton Visits the Daily Show by Alex Merced (This is in Reference To This interview on the Daily Show) In former President Bill Clintons appearance on the popular satirical news show "The Daily Show" I had to say I was very surprised at Clintons candidness. Clinton, shockingly enough...
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Some think the internet is harming our ability to think and read deeply. For example, Nicholas Carr wrote in 2008: The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall...
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In the advent of the worst financial crisis seen in decades, there is much to be learned. Many economists agree that creating false demand will eventually create a bubble and crush a market much faster than the natural economic cycle. Take for instance the student loan market. Student loans, subsidized...
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State University vs. Private University By Monty Pelerin , posted March 10th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/10/state-university-vs-private-university/ I don’t have the data, but perhaps some readers might. I have often speculated that the cost of a state-university degree is higher...
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Write up the bill and title it the 'No Patient Left Behind Act'. The right should have no problem falling in line, much as it did with education, with the further nationalization of an entire industry.
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Why is it that when we study history, so much of it is recounting a succession of rulers and wars: that is, political history? As a liberal, I believe the state is predominantly an agent of violence. And wars are obviously violent. So looked at that way, the common conception of history seems to be a...
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A child is a potential man. Man is characterized by the fact that he acts and that he has morality. To act is to behave with purpose: using reason to willfully choose between alternative means toward ends. Morality is a set of feelings which constrain action. Newborn infants do not act; their behaviors...
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What is the point of all this formal learning we expect schoolchildren to do: the endless assignments and tests? One stock answer to this question is that it teaches them how to get things done. That would obviously be learned better in the real world than in school. The somewhat more plausible answer...
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We as a society have abdicated parenthood. We have handed parenthood over to the state. The prime responsibility of raising children to become decent, humane, and successful adults has been given over to state schools. Kids' lives are dominated by school. They spend about 6 hours a day at school...
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I recently taught a workshop about brains for a group of 24 5th graders. First I wrote on the board, “What does the brain do?” The students dutifully enumerated the standard list: controls your movements, thinks, feels emotion, controls your heartbeat, controls your body temperature; obviously...
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Modern schooling has served to cripple the intellectual lives of every generation since its inception. In schools, children are herded and harrangued into completing academic chores. These chores are usually utterly mindless, pointless, forgettable, boring, harrowing, or some combination of the above...
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Liberty Lost? Or To What Extent Have the United States of America Become Collectivist To The Detriment of Individualism? This dissertation charts the changes throughout history in the balance between collectivism and individualism in United States federal government policy. It is argued that collectivism...
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In the context of a review of the focus on "creationism" that Alaska governor Sarah Palin has injected in the presidential election, Christopher Caldwell , a senior editor at The Weekly Standard , has attempted to explain (in The Financial Times , oddly enough) to his readers in the UK the...