Albert Jay Nock
Against Net Neutrality
As a recent column in the Wall Street Journal reminds us, online freedom is jeopardized in the name of “net neutrality” (The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom).
Meredith Whitney: 50 to 100 municipal bond defaults are coming
Last night 60 Minutes had a segment highlighting the budges woes of various state governments (HT Jeffrey Peshut). Meredith Whitney said it will be as big a meltdown as the real estate crash. On the other side of the argument, S & P and Moody’s say everything is A-OK. One muni bond portfolio manager took issue with Ms.
Mental Illnesses Among College Students
There has been a bit of discussion of this piece in the New York Times about mental health issues on college campuses (HT: Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba). The article reports on a greater preponderance of mental illness among students. Here are a few hypotheses that are open to testing:
A love song for F.A. Hayek
This is just wonderful, and very touching actually. Thank you John. And thank you Dorian Electra.
Finally, the whole tree issue: solved!
Somehow I knew it. I knew that someone, somewhere, would solve the whole tree stand issue.
The problem is obvious enough. Nature did not intend for the top 10 feet of a tree to be hacked off and stuck inside living rooms for a few weeks a year and hence nature did not provide technology to make this possible.
No man appeared to have provided for it either. Every year it is the same nonsense, struggling with some tin contraption that bends this way and that and screwing those stupid screws until they bore deep inside the tree and you stand it up and the tree tips over anyway.
The Foremost Austrian Contribution to Economic Science
In the midst of the chaotic resurgence of various heterodox explanations of the business cycle, the principal Austrian contribution to the discussion has been all but completely lost. Take for instance P.