My wife and I read a quirky newsletter you won’t find online called the Belly of the Beast. It is the source of this startling but then again not surprising information: Academic researchers publish 2-3 million papers a year, most of it funded by governments. Most of the results of the this research are published in copyright protected journals
A federal court has ruled that a US Department of Justice “monitor” will remain inside Apple Computer to supervise all the company’s pricing decisions. The “monitor,” Michael Bromwich , was appointed when Apple lost an anti-trust case involving E-books. He bills for his time at $1,100 an hour and charged $138,432 for his first two weeks of “work.”
Did you notice this line in the president’s recent State of the Union address: “ I ask America’s business leaders toraise your employees’s wages.” This is not the first time a president has made this “request” of employers. After the stock market crash of 1929, President Hoover began talking about wages. They needed to be protected from cuts, he
President Obama described his fellow Democrat, who just announced his retirement after four decades in Congress, as “one of the most accomplished legislators of his or any era.” The Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson calls him a ” legislative genius” who “decisively consigned the Republican right’s favored ideology—libertarianism—to history’s
by Dominick Armentano [ LewRockwell.com , February 12, 2014] Obamacare was sold to the American people as a humanitarian attempt to provide health insurance to the poor and to individuals with a pre-existing medical condition who had been denied coverage. If you were not poor, did not have a pre-existing condition, and already had health insurance
President Obama has named three more nominees to the Fed and the Senate has had a chance to interview them. The first and most important is Stanley Fischer, aged 70, nominee for vice chairman as well as a regular member. The most curious thing about Fischer’s resume is that, having been born in Zambia, and naturalized as an American in 1976, he
by David Stockman From David Stockman’s Contra Corner . Remarks to the Committee For The Republic, Washington DC, February 2014 (Part 3 in a 6-Part Series) Go to Part 1. In this setting, Bubbles Ben 1.0 (New York Fed Governor Benjamin Strong) stormed in with a rescue plan that will sound familiar to contemporary ears. By means of his bond
From his column in today’s USA Today: Critics point to the Russian “occupation” of Crimea as evidence that no fair vote could have taken place. Where were these people when an election held in an Iraq occupied by U.S. troops was called a “triumph of democracy”? Perhaps the U.S. officials who supported the unconstitutional overthrow of Ukraine’s
A bit late, but some great reads here! Top 50 most-read Mises Dailies during 2013, by unique page views: A Virtual Weimar: Hyperinflation in a Video Game World - Peter C. Earle The Truth About SwedenCare - Klaus Bernpaintner Hushing Up Conspiracy Theories - Jeff Riggenbach How the Stock Market and Economy Really Work - Kel Kelly The Hiroshima Myth
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