Though they wallowed through the mud for weeks, your federal representatives now want to be treated with respect. Just a few days ago they were the bad-talking bullies of the airwaves, now they expect all that vile to be simply forgotten. From brawls to blue suits in just one day. The House web site automatically adds the title “Honorable” to any
This is rich. Brazilian central bank employees have gone on strike to press for a 23 percent wage increase to compensate for inflation that has taken place since June 2008. HT to Mark
Score another one for voluntaryism and the free market in the fight against email spam. Tired of receiving tons of spam? Don’t want to join a coercive government registry or support any coercive government legislation? Then you might want to check out Blue Security . The ingenious developers at Blue Security have created a way for you to report
60 Minutes recently profiled what it called a conspiracy of hedge funds and stock research analysts to drive down the stock price of a Canadian drug company called Biovail. Joe Nocera of the New York Times did an admirable job of debunking this story and clarifying how markets actually work, versus the impression that markets are corruptly
Taxes have a long and ugly history. The pharaohs, of course, were big taxers and spenders. You don’t build pyramids stuffed with luxury goods for the next life by letting your constituents buy untaxed corn. Even Solomon the Wise squeezed his subjects like the vintners squeezed grapes. A thousand wives means a thousand wedding rings and a thousand
Journal of Libertarian Studies 20, no. 1 (Winter 2006) SYMPOSIUM ON KEVIN CARSON’S STUDIES IN MUTUALIST POLITICAL ECONOMY EDITORIAL by Roderick T. Long. Many of the individualist anarchists, and in particular those thinkers associated with Benjamin Tucker’s journal Liberty , sought to combine a political theory based on individual sovereignty and
Mark Trumbull of the Christian Science Monitor has revealed insights from comparing the concurrent First Job Contract riots in France with the demonstrations in the US over new legislation concerning immigration in the March 31 edition . The comparison between labor policies and markets in the European Union vis a vis the United States is made up
Several Austrian professors have said that they appreciate Greg Mankiw’s principles text on economics, as a solid intro to mainstream thinking (it is mercifully free of most Keynesian anachronisms) and a good foil for Austrian perspectives. Certainly one has to appreciate his honesty in saying that he never read any Austrians in grad school and
The New York Times ran a just-the-facts story about Argentina’s increasingly egregious price controls—beginning in browbeating, moving to controls on beef, spreading to all consumer goods, and ending in export bans—that somehow failed to report any information on central-bank policies, as if price increases and the money supply have nothing to do
The Norwegan party Fremskrittspartiet (The Progress Party) who in last year’s election became the second biggest party in Norway with 22.1% of the votes and who according to the polls have now surpassed the Labor Party to become the biggest party, will soon hold a “Ideology course” (Thanks Ninja economist for the tip) to educate its members about
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