By DCT | February 8, 2010
Change Your Mind
Mises Daily: Monday, February 08, 2010 by Doug French
Despite the juiced-up GDP numbers of the last two quarters, there is no illusion that the depression is over and the boom has resumed. While GDP is reported as being positive, the employment numbers remain weak. The headline jobless number has one in ten [...]
By DCT | December 7, 2009
December 7, 2009 8:53 PM by Richard Ebeling on the Mises Blog
Friends of freedom are frequently accused of being “extremists” in not being willing to “compromise” with a “reasonable” amount of government regulation, welfare redistribution, and social intervention.
But who really is the extremist, the advocate of liberty who respects diversity and differences among men and [...]
By DCT | September 2, 2009
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Mises Daily by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Posted on 7/10/2009 12:00:00 AM
It was common on the Left to intimate that George W. Bush was like Hitler, a remark that would drive the National Review crowd through the roof but which I didn’t find entirely outrageous. Bush’s main method of governance was to [...]
Posted in Fascism | Also tagged Fascism, Fuehrer, George W. Bush, Germany, Guenter Reimann, Hitler, Jr., Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Machiavelli, National Review, President Barack Obama, Price Commissar, Price Controls, The Vampire Economy |
Defining the Extent of the Market: the Whole Foods Case
Mises Daily by Art Carden | Posted on 6/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
On June 28, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission issued a formal “administrative complaint” to block the proposed merger between premium grocers Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Market. They claim that it would reduce [...]
Posted in Economics 101 | Also tagged Apple Computer, Big Macs, Burger King, Costco, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, IPod, Kroger, McDonalds, Mises Daily, MP3 Players, NAIC, Peter Boettke, Peter Leeson, Sam's Club, Terry Leahy, Tesco, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Wild Oats Market, Zune |
Peter Schiff has been right because he is a solid student of the Austrian School of Economics. His views are solid and scientific. What is amazing here is the Time interviewer, as does everybody else, knows that Schiff has been right on his predictions about the collapse of the economy but still says [...]
The Fallacy of Relative Evil
Posted on Mises Blog, April 23, 2009 10:00 AM by Jeffrey Tucker
I finally saw Missing, a 1982 film about political violence in Chile, staring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. It won an Oscar, was nominated for many more, and won 8 other awards at various film festivals.
It has to be one [...]
Mises Daily by Laurence M. Vance | Posted on 4/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
[This talk was given at the 2009 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute.]
Our current income tax system, inaugurated in 1913 with the adoption of the 16th Amendment, began with a 1 percent tax on taxable income above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples). [...]
Posted in Public Debt & Taxation | Also tagged Americans for Fair Taxation, Barack Obama, Cato Institute, Clinton Administration, Dick Armey, Duncan Hunter, FairTax, FairTax: The Truth Answering the Critics, Flat Tax, Forbes, Great Depression, House Committee on Ways and Means, Joe Sobran, Laurence M. Vance, Murray Rothbard, Pensacola Junior College, The Fair Tax Book, Tom Tancredo, World War I, World War II |
Mises Daily by Matthew J. Novak | Posted on 3/31/2009 12:00:00 AM
Dear Dr. Drew Westen,
I read your commentary this morning, as many have undoubtedly done. The economy is a very interesting and pressing current affair. I realize you may receive volumes of email regarding what you have written, so I hope you will consider [...]
Posted in Economics 101, Federal Reserve System, Free Markets | Also tagged AIG, FDR, Federal Reserve System, Freedom, Great Depression, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, New Deal, Ronald Reagan |
