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  • Re: Justice

    did you not appreciate property rights before anarch-izing yourself?
    Posted to Newbies (Forum) by sthomper on Sun, Nov 22 2009
  • Re: What kind of music do Misenians listen to?

    shostakovitch's 11th symphony is nice. beethovens 3rd and 5th piano concertos apart form bolero, ravel had many lush works. puccini's humming chorus form m. butterfly portions (non vocal) of wagners ring are pleasant as for hard rock music...faith no more had a good instrumental with 'woodpecker from mars' motorheads orgasmatron i like
    Posted to General (Forum) by sthomper on Sat, Nov 21 2009
  • Re: Super-Abundant "Goods"

    apart from air were there any other super abudndant goods listed by rothbart/mises? i guess while air may be superabundant...economic action to change mans effect on it has been ongoing. i dont know if a distinction of super clean air or high visibility in the air etc is a case for scarcity. air quality perhaps.
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Fri, Nov 20 2009
  • Re: Legal Tender Laws

    firstly, if the dollar has lost 95% percent of its value since its creation....would you happen to know how much wages have increased since the dollars creation? maybe the govt would consider gold and silver money as a special asset (environmentally harmful or something)..and tax it appropriately in gold and silver payments. maybe worse than dollar
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Fri, Nov 20 2009
  • Re: Legal Tender Laws

    this sentence seems a bit confusing..what exactly do you mean? "I live in Pennsylvania and can "find no law that states I can't accept or pay in gold or silver coins." i guess you mean here "i can find no law that states i cant pay in gold or silver coins" if a good/service is priced in dollars that you want to pay to aquire
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Thu, Nov 19 2009
  • Re: Legal Tender Laws

    congress shall have power to....To coin money,....unless coin had a different meaning...coin, i have read, is metal money. maybe the congress went against itself and made the word coin into the word dollar. no state shall....coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts;....so states cant coin
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Thu, Nov 19 2009
  • Re: Legal Tender Laws

    currency that cannot legally be refused in payment of debt. The Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, defines legal tender as "United States coins and currency There is, however, no federal statute requiring a private business, a person or an organization to accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services.
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Thu, Nov 19 2009
  • Re: Gold Standard

    "are we not artificially pushing up the gold prices..." what is artificial about commodity money doing what it is supposed to do?
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Tue, Nov 17 2009
  • Re: ...you lose energy but gain dollars....

    uh...im neither. i bought a bokk by the author of the linked article several months ago and am just trying to get an understanding of some of the wind energy discussions here on the mises boards, energy and inflation and finance. its a bit more than i can understand.
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Tue, Nov 17 2009
  • Re: ...you lose energy but gain dollars....

    1. a previous blog post on mises.org stated that there is more than enough wind blowing every second somewhere over the us to be captured by wind turbines in various places and then converted to energy and (with intelligent grid managment) directed where needed (where the wind isnt blowing and electricity is demanded). i still havent determined if thats
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by sthomper on Tue, Nov 17 2009
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