Fantastic Speech by De Soto
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Unionism II
This blog post originally appeared on lewrockwell.com.
“Dilbert” Creator’s Sock Puppet is “Planned Chaos”
It appears that Scott Adams is a fan of Ludwig von Mises, who called socialism “Planned Chaos” – a term that might also be used to describe large corporations that attempt to centrally plan all things within a firm.
The True Nature of Taxation
All of the services now funded by taxation and provided by the government were at one point in the not-so-distant past funded and provided privately.
What Is Money?
A man would die of hunger who, having decided that money is real wealth, should carry out the idea to the end.
Inflation Inferno I
Governments and bankers hate gold because its supply cannot be inflated on command.
Conventional Education Will Go the Way of Farming
Yes, the facts and figures are a click away. The ability to use, understand, and communicate those facts is what must be taught and currently is not. And it doesn’t take an army of 8 million and a budget of 1 trillion dollars and counting to do it.
The Capitalist in the Hat
The case of Seuss enthusiast Charles Cohen beautifully illustrates the harmony between personal profit and service to others in the voluntary market economy. For good or ill, entrepreneurs will provide what the customers want — whether it’s one fish, two fish, red fish, or blue fish.
Real estate lending goes nowhere despite Fed action
Ever since the current depression began, the Fed and most Washington politicians have assured us that quantitative easing, low interest rates and stimulus spending would all combine to set the state for real estate to “lead us out of the recession.” As far as I can tell, this theory is based on the idea that if real estate values can be re-inflated, then people will buy more houses, more furniture and more stuff.
Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society”
For the most part, the Great Society represented the culmination of economic, political, and intellectual developments dating back a century.
