“American” Ideas Attack France
Thanks to Tim Swanson for the link. Apparently, the French are very worried about the oncoming attack of American ideas. Google is planning on uploading libraries to the internet. Jeanneney, head of...
View ArticleGreenspan Talk: Social Security can’t pay up in real terms
On the Financial Sense news hour, Jim Puplava and others talk about the disaster that our social security system is in. Of particular interest is an exchange they replay between Allan Greenspan and a...
View ArticleOur Fascist State and Martha Stewart
Now that the State has finished the fascist imprisonment of Martha Stewart for engaging in non-crimes, they’ve committed her to house-arrest, as if she’s some kind of dangerous criminal. This is...
View ArticleThose greedy capitalist pigs!
Robbert Herring, a “tycoon”, has offered Michael Schiavo $1million if he hands over the rights to decide whether or not to take his wife, Terri Schiavo, to her parents. Mr. Schiavo says that she’d told...
View Article“Is the Market Efficient?”, by Philip Fischer
This is a brilliant essay by Philip Fischer that I’ve transcribed from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings, the third book, Developing and Investment Philosophy. Here it is: By the...
View ArticleHow taxpayer money is used
A woman was fined for holding an apple while performing a maneuver in a car. Aside from the absurdity of this, it cost the government far more to prosecute her than what they obtained from the fine: A...
View ArticleBali prosecutors demand life in prison for Corby, alleged drug-importer
Apparently, in Bali, one can get the death penalty for importing drugs. Bali prosecutors, however, have been “merciful”, and only asked for life in prison for Schapelle Corby, an Australlian beauty...
View ArticleToyota: We’re too profitable!
Apparently, Japanese car-makers are concerned about being too profitable, when American car companies are experiencing difficulty. I wonder when strategy courses in business schools will start teaching...
View ArticleJustice Janice Brown says the darndest things
Justice Janice Brown is a justice in the old tradition of actually abiding by the Constitution, and is of a strongly libertarian bent. What follows are a few choice quotes from Janice Brown....
View ArticleCorby Convicted of “drug-smuggling”
Following up on a previous blog, Australian Schapelle Corby was convicted of drug-smuggling in Bali, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Breaking down in tears, Ms. Corby embraced her family before...
View ArticleLargest Mass Execution in American History
I was particularly moved by this passage from Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln (also available from Amazon.com), reviewed here by David Gordon. DiLorenzo is one of the few people to take an honest...
View ArticleNew Orleans, State-Planning, and the Free Market
Michael Barnett, son of William Barnett II, is sticking it out in New Orleans. He’s keeping a livejournal blog about what’s going on, and Mises.org is running a live feed of his webcam. As someone...
View ArticleOn the Nobel Prize Committee
The May 2005 issue of the National Geographic has an interesting article on the Nobel committee and Albert Einstein. Apparently, the Nobel committee was really determined to deny Albert Einstein a...
View ArticleUnion Tales: My Father’s experiences with unions
For 40 years, my father worked for the Rochester Telephone Company, almost 30 years as a foreman / manager. During that time, he was never absent due to sickness. This is not because he was never sick,...
View ArticleSouthern Economic Journal: Simply Atrocious Misreprsentation of Mises
I just ran accross this article by Murray Rothbard: Ludwig von Mises and Natural Law: A Comment on Professor Gonce. “Professor” Gonce’s paper, published in the prestigeous Southern Economic Journal,...
View ArticleTaxation = Enslavement
The claim by libertarians that to taxation is equivalent to ensalvement strikes many people as being extreme and fanatical. However, I hope to show that this claim is entirely correct by a rather brief...
View ArticleCFA Institute Complements Hayek
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the CFA Level I Program Curriculum actually has much of Hayek’s economics in it, but it does pay a tribute to him in a highlight box: Outstanding Economist Friedrich...
View ArticleGermany: Still National Socialists
In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children A German family has been subject to threats from the National Socialist government of Germany, because they’re trying...
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Media Blackout of Ron Paul
Before MSNBC deletes these reader comments, I’m posting them here (MSNBC doesn’t have copyright over other’s comments). The following is an exhaustive listing of all of the comments up to the point of...
View ArticleRepublicans trying to ban Ron Paul from future debates
According to this article on mlive.com, the Chairman of the Republican Party, fascist Saul Anuzis, is trying to have Ron Paul banned from future debates. The Republicans are quite clearly shaking in...
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