Here is a hilarious article at Salon that comments on our discussions here at the Mises Blog. Billboards in space If you want proof of why libertarians will never become a majority political force in the United States you need look no further than the discussion of space billboards currently taking place at the Mises Economics Blog. (Thanks to
CNN : A quarter century after the Reagan revolution and a dozen years after Republicans vaulted into control of Congress, a new CNN poll finds most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that, as the Gipper put it, “government is not the answer to our problems — government is the problem.” The poll released Friday also showed
If you doubted the glories of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles , see this review : “Even if it may be difficult at this time to gauge in any precise manner the effect the book will have on the economics profession at large, there can be no doubt the book is destined to become a classic, both by virtue of the subject matters that are treated
Thank goodness we have equal opportunity government that distributes its concern among all living creatures. Not only will it protect you from your own gutterish desires; drugs, gluttony, the flames of lust: but it will also protect the yellow feathered peckerwood — a shy, exotic, and miniscule species, from the BB pellets of the youthful
I guess I’m a bit late on this, but I found this story very impressive: CNET News ranked Ron Paul as the most technology-friendly Congressmen in Washington, based on 20 recorded votes. The story notes that he is a “Texas Republican who represents a rural district along the Gulf Coast that’s home to few Web 2.0 start-ups but plenty of cattle
Here is a chart from the JEL showing that the much-praised Grameen Bank is a highly subsidized, unprofitable, and unsustainable institution. I have a piece on this subject coming out tomorrow but I was just visiting with BK Marcus on the subject of why is it that so many otherwise libertarian writers were so quick to buy into the Nobel Prize
Says Scientific American : Von Hayek was wrong. In strong and vibrant democracies, a generous social-welfare state is not a road to serfdom but rather to fairness, economic equality and international
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