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  • Re: When can the fed print more money?

    See Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money . When a regular person buys a government bond, that person is spending money they had to have somehow received beforehand from someone else. That is, it must have been money that was already in circulation. When the Federal Reserve buys government...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by hjmaiere on Sun, Apr 13 2008
  • Re: Did Christ sin by cleansing the temple?

    You are correct in your understanding. The merchants in the temple I believe actually would cover spots on animals and sell them as spotless, and also the prices were outrageous...not even a market driven price... So technically Jesus was just driving out fraudulent merchants, no sin in that.
    Posted to History (Forum) by Combsy on Wed, Apr 2 2008
  • Re: Petty fraud

    [quote user="Anonymous Coward"]You lost me there, how is someone being agressed against if someone sells them a 'Rolex' for $20 and they honestly believe that they are buying the real deal?[/quote]Depends. Whereas being dishonest is not a violation of natural law or the non-aggression...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by allixpeeke on Sun, Dec 9 2007
  • Fraud and Strike

    This morning I was thinking of an incident that occured in my hometown of Rutland, Vermont, in the 19th century. Rutland was home to several marble quarrying companies and marble was fortuitously discovered just as the Rutland Railroad came to town and the famous quarries of Carrara, Italy closed do...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by TigerofRobare on Fri, Nov 30 2007
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