Can you imagine how awesome a blog by Murray Rothbard would be? Or Mises Dailies by Mises himself? These great men were not given their full due in their lifetimes, because they were writing in the media era of the monolithic broadcast and the monolithic print run. With such a model, power and interest has a competitive advantage over truth. But
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Back in 2005, Rainbough Phillips at Distributed Republic had the splendid idea of a Capitalism Appreciation Day . She walked the reader through her day expressing her appreciation for every for-profit entity that made her life more pleasant. It inspired me to do the same back then,
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Capitalism, Competition, Collaboration, and Kindness . Media and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman has written an op-ed piece in which he tries to deflect blame from the Fed, and even proposes giving it more power. In what amounts to a double-salvo on
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Absolving with Faint Criticism: A Media and Real Estate Mogul Defends the Fed . The Independent is propagating the “findings” of a two-year study conducted by two British socialist outfits, the Fabian Society, and the Webb Memorial Trust. Its article’s
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: The Starvation Brink, Victorian England, and the Santa Claus Principle . Christina Romer, chair of the President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, is beaming with pride in the Wall Street Journal over Cash for Clunkers purportedly being “successful in
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Cash for Cranks . Here is a statement release from Christina Roemer, quick to take today’s employment report as... ...the most hopeful sign yet that the stabilization of financial markets and the recovery in economic growth may be leading to improvements in
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: What That Jobs Report Might Really Mean . This series sets the writings of Mises, Rothbard, and other departed Austrian economists against the economic illiterates staffing today’s punditry. Of course, while it might seem more fitting to set quotes from such
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Safeway and Consumer Sovereignty in Oakland, CA . After doubling down on Afghanistan, President Obama is proving a profligacy to rival that of his predecessor as he announces that he’s going to double down on fiscal stimulus as well (h/t Spideynw in the Mises
NewLiberty on the LvMI Forum shares a bevy of links covering the recent climate scandal that seems likely to become even bigger than the Yamal Controversy ... http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hadley_hacked/
“ We Need a Housing Bubble ” Krugman got a Nobel in Economics. “Let’s Ramp Up a Murderous, Useless War” Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize. So what do we give Helicopter Ben Bernanke, who has squandered much of whatever capital we had left after the housing bubble burst by pushing interest rates down to zero, and guaranteed (just wait for it) the worst
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