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 [...]
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Posted in Philosophy, Thinking Also tagged Austrian Economics, Doug French, Henry Hazlitt, Mises Daily, Right Brain, Thinking 1 Comment
Is the Friend of Freedom an “Extremist”?
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 [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism Also tagged Freedom, Government Intervention, liberty, Ludwig von Mises, Richard Ebeling, Wealth Redistribution Leave a comment
The Essence of Freedom
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 [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Tyranny Also tagged Classical Liberalism, Freedom, Robert Montgomery, The Freeman, Tyranny 1 Comment
The Ongoing Desctruction of Free-Markets – The Case of Whole Foods
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 1 Comment
Peter Schiff called “Extremist” by Time Magazine
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 that the [...]
Tyranny From The Left Or Right Is Still Tyranny!
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 [...]
Posted in Tyranny Also tagged Chile, Communists, General Pinochet, Jack Lemmon, Jeffrey Tucker, Latin America, Missing, Sissy Spacek, Tyranny, Wikipedia 1 Comment
