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A short blurb in today's (10/27/09) Wall Street Journal stated that home prices rose in most major American cities in August. This is cited as evidence of a recovering economy. But what does this mean and is it something we really want? Perhaps you've noticed that prices at the pump are going...
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On Picassa and Facebook .
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On Picassa . On Facebook .
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Check it out ; Karl Marx makes a cameo.
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Introducing... Issue #1 covers the basics.
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The Federal government has now grown so powerful that some in this nation are taking its slightest wish to be a command. The announcement on Monday by a group of major American corporation, including Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Tyco and others, that they will be adopting new executive compensation guidelines...
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The Federal Reserve has announced a policy that, not too many years ago, would have been widely denounced as a tyrannical usurpation of power. The Fed is in the process of drawing up “guidelines” to set limits on the amount of compensation that can be paid to the upper management of the nation's...
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Socialism inevitably leads to destitution and famine in direct proportion to the thoroughness with which it is applied. This has been shown to be true historically, with or without Marxist ideology or 20th century totalitarianism. It has starved 17th century colonists in Virginia and Plymouth just as...
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It is now time to move from a case where credits are given to producers to where consumers are being given credits. Indeed, the general effects of an increase of money via consumers' credits, which will result in an increased relative demand for consumers' goods compared to producers' ones...
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(This post is an attempt to formulate praxeological fundamentals according to how they make sense to me.) An action is an embarkation of a behavior for the achievement of a goal 1 which executes a deliberate choice 2 among potential behaviors. A goal is a possible future situation that is perceived as...
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This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 3 . Previously in this series: A Mengerian Solution to the Diamond-Water Paradox In section C of the chapter on value in Principles, Menger shifts from questions of quantity to...
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Paul Krugman wants to be our savior. Moreover, he wants to be a specific kind of savior: a magus of the scientific age, a blackboard prophet. The roots of this curious ambition can be seen in his recent profile in Newsweek : Krugman says he found himself in the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, especially...
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This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 3 . Previously in this series: Menger on Multi-Purpose Homogenous Goods Let us say two men want to make a trade. One man offers water, the other diamonds. The water seller has a...
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The importance that the adjustments of the price mechanism free of any external influences has in respect to a prospering economy is highlighted when we investigate the results of the “'natural' movement of prices” is disrupted by monetary policies. These may take the form of either...
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This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 3 . Previously in this series: Menger's Value Scale . In Section 2, Part B of his chapter on value, Menger discusses "the dependence of separate satisfactions on particular...