More news from the category of constantly refuted but never-ending bad policies: US Imposes Tariffs on Furniture from China . La-Z-Boy can’t compete but can lobby.
Consider these four sentences: 1) My rumbling stomach caused me to head to the kitchen for a snack. 2) My friend’s logic caused me to change my mind. 3) The gunman’s threat to kill me caused me to surrender my wallet. 4) The car’s sudden stop caused me to hit the dashboard. I f we fail to distinguish the first three uses of the word caused (which
So it turns out that AEI’s award to Mario Vargas Llosa ( who spoke about Mises and, on the same day, signed the petition on behalf of Hans Hoppe ) was rather controversial among the AEI
So the latest person on stage at the Hate Tom Woods Club is David Greenberg at Slate , who says that The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is really “History for Dummies meets John T. Flynn.” But his first substantive point of complaint is that Woods doesn’t cite David Hackett Fischer though Woods’s analysis of British immigration
Concerning the ridiculous piece this morning in the Wall Street Journal , purporting to define and discuss libertarianism within the ranks of Republicans, is supposed to be a humor piece, but Steven Horwitz at Liberty and Power is right: “I can’t tell you how much I hate the “libertarians are Republicans who want to smoke pot/have an
Someone has to say it ( Robert Samuelson, WashPost ) if the privatizers will not: “Let’s suppose Congress approves President Bush’s ‘personal accounts’ for Social Security. The Social Security system would then become the largest single investor in U.S. stocks. By 2050 Social Security could hold 25 percent of all stocks, estimate economists at
In the category of “health is way too important to leave to the government,” the Guardian reports: “The number of patients waiting for an NHS operation in England has increased by nearly 6,000, the government admitted today. A total of 827,300 patients were on the waiting list at the end of April - up by 5,700 since the end of
A comprehensive survey by the National Institute of Mental Health has found that most everyone will develop a mental illness sometime in his or her life, reports the NYT . There just aren’t enough government programs out there to deal with the problem! The Times’ list of these diseases leaves no doubt: social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder,
To answer another question concerning the move from hard money to paper money--from the origin of money in Mises “ regression theorem “ to the destruction of money in what Salerno and Huelsman have called the “progression theorem”--I had the occasion to reread J.G. Huelsman’s excellent piece on political centralization from the JLS . The whole
Catching up on in-box items I missed, I just had the chance to read the funny New York Times article on investment gold bugs: “ Believing (and Believing and Believing) in Bullion .” It’s a charming piece of reporting that does no harm to the sector of the investment community that is devoted to gold as a investment. It is of interest to the
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