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Ending the Monetary Fiasco — Returning to Sound Money »
Posted by: populist 8 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Mises knew that capitalism, for a number of reasons, has politically powerful enemies. The most powerful, most destructive, and most vicious and subversive of these ...
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CNBC Hates Saving - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Institute »
Posted by: populist 5 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
I realize it must be difficult to maintain a constant barrage of "just breaking" financial news stories, but CNBC really puts out some doozies. Take ...
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Sorry, We're Clothed »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Prior to the great boom of the past decade, the jiggle business was localized. Politically unpopular, zoning for such establishments is confined to industrial areas ...
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Darth Greenspan »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The former chairman of the US Federal Reserve shares a lot in common with one of the most famous villain characters in the history of ...
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The Deflating Bubble »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The residential meltdown is nowhere close to being over. There is reportedly a million-house overhang in the market nationwide. But misguided attempts by government are ...
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Killing in War »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Jeff McMahan has written a genuinely revolutionary book. He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory. He further argues that soldiers in an unjust ...
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American History Is Not What They Say »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
What Americans know and understand about the history of the society in which they live will determine the degree of their willingness to honor and ...
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The Case Against the Fed »
Posted by: onlyonesecret 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other ...
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Savings Is Not Just a Good Thing »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Regions Bank scored the worst of the nation's 19 largest banks on the federal government's stress tests. The bank's chief economist, Bob ...
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Krugman's Intellectual Waterloo »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
And what about Krugman's strawman protests that he didn't cause the housing bubble, much less the Enron scandal or Kennedy's assassination? The ...
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Is Advertising a Sham? »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The consumer is not omniscient. He does not know where he can obtain at the cheapest price what he is looking for. Very often he ...
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Dean Krugman to the Marching Band: "Stay the Course!" »
Posted by: populist 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
All who remember Animal House can recall the scene at the end in which the band is trying to walk through the wall at the ...
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Can Bubbles Also Be Made in China? - Tim Swanson - Mises Institute »
Posted by: populist 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Despite all of the shimmering skyscrapers and industrial output, unless market forces are allowed to truly dictate economic exchanges, today's Chinese megacities and their ...
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Economists on Strike? - Chris Brown - Mises Institute »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Economists are prone to call the consequences of many decisions "unintended," and thus assume the actors are genuinely ignorant of these effects or would otherwise ...
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Bailout Bonds? »
Posted by: populist 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Are you all for Obama's economic plans? Do you think that bailing out failing companies and throwing trillions into the national money pit is ...
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