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Mises Economics Blog

• Human Action, $20 (true)

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:10pm PST by Jeffrey Tucker

  Someone on this blog alerted us to the fact that Human Action is priced at $20 in the printed catalog, clearly a typo. What can we do but comply? Meanwhile, the staff here will continue to point fingers at each other.Join the discussion and ...

RedStateEclectic

• Kokesh Karma ?

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:49pm PST by Angela Thorn

  This post should be longer, but I'm swamped right now.  I'll more later, but i wanted to point out that Michelle Malkin wrote a long rant about Adam Kokesh today. ( I'm not linking to her site, because I'd rather scratch my eyes out than ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Subsidies + IRS = Free Press!

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:16pm PST by S.M. Oliva

  The Federal Trade Commission has been conducting its second workshop on “how do we save traditional media from the Internet?” The reports I’ve read from the event are downright comical. One presenter, University of Illinois professor Robert W. McChesney, really takes the cake for ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• House Debates War in Afghanistan

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:03pm PST

  By Matt HawesThe House is currently in the midst of a three hour debate over H Con. Res. 248, which would require President Obama to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan within 30 days of the resolution's passage by Congress or no later than the ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Searching for Lost Value

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:53am PST by S.M. Oliva

  The Associated Press reports that Toyota faces a plethora of class action lawsuits from its customers – not because people suffered physical injuries from defective cars, but because the cars have “lost” value:Such class-action lawsuits “are more scary for Toyota than the cases where ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• Ron Paul Interview

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:45am PST

  By Matt HawesDr. Paul is scheduled to appear on Fox News' America Live with Megyn Kelly at 1 pm eastern to talk about national id cards. Update: [www.youtube.com] ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Otteson on Marx v. Smith

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:42am PST by Art Carden

  James Otteson speaks on Karl Marx v. Adam Smith at the 2010 FEE Homeschool Debate Tournament (HT: James Otteson).The Classical Liberal Tradition: Marx v. Smith from FEE on Vimeo.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:...

DownsizeDC

• Babka on the Radio

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:56am PST by DownsizeDC.org

  Jim Babka, President of  DownsizeDC.org, did two interviews recently and you can listen online or download the broadcasts.(Read More) ...

RedStateEclectic

• Double Standard, Of Course

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:51am PST by Eric Parks

  Children in nearly two dozen Boston public schools ate meals in cafeterias cited for conditions so severe - including mouse droppings, peeling paint and a rusty oven - that one inspector said they would shutter a typical restaurant. Making matters worse: The central ...

• If Government Can, Why Not We?

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:01am PST by Georg Thomas

  The worry:I suppose I just think the libertarian that takes public good and externality issues seriously is very rare. It's not incompatible with libertarianism, but it's deliberately minimized.A libertarian's reply:It's not that libertarians don't take public goods problems ...

Campaign For Liberty Blog

• Medical records hit the web without consent in Britain

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:56am PST

  By Matt HawesVia the UK's Telegraph: Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities. But doctors have accused the Government of rushing the project through, ...

• Stop the Federal Reserve From Shredding Its Records

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:47am PST

  By Matt HoldridgeRobert Auerbach, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the book "Deception and Abuse at the Fed" recently wrote an article on the Huffington Post outlining The Federal Open Market Committee at the Fed and their ...

• Obama now targeting recreational fishing?

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:58am PST

  By Matt HawesSeriously?  Is there not one area left in which this adminstration is not willing to make people angry? Via ESPN: The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:57am PST by Mises Daily

  When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. But one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. FULL ARTICLE by Jeff RiggenbachJoin the discussion and ...

• Inventive Progress, Part 2

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:56am PST by Mises Daily

  For thousands of years under the Old World concept of a static economy operating under bureaucratic control, human beings lived in hunger, filth, and disease. They worked ceaselessly at backbreaking drudgery to keep life in wretched bodies. FULL ARTICLE by Henry Grady ...

• A Constitutional Dollar

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:54am PST by Mises Daily

  Are you aware that a Federal Reserve dollar bill is not a constitutional dollar? Perhaps you are, but if so, do you know what a constitutional dollar literally is? FULL ARTICLE by Michael RozeffJoin the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:...

• Can I borrow a dollar to buy a house in Detroit?

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:47am PST by Jeffrey Tucker

  The Guardian finds the whole thing rather puzzling.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:A free market in moneyFree Markets in Good Times, Big Government in ...

RedStateEclectic

• Building A Future Without The NWO

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:46am PST by Eric Parks

   Regardless of how oppressive our surroundings may be, this ability to choose can never be taken away. It is inked upon our very psyches. However, there are some in this world that would have us believe otherwise. That would tell us we are blank and ...

• Sowell Explains

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:30am PST by Eric Parks

  None of this is new. What is going on is what went on during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Money circulated more slowly during the 1930s than during the 1920s. Banks lent out a smaller proportion of the money they had on hand ...

EconLog

• Taxation of Unemployment Benefits

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:03am PST by David Henderson

  (March 10, 2010 12:03 PM, by David Henderson) On the comments yesterday on my post on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment, Noah Yetter wrote: You have to pay taxes on unemployement benefits? Am I the only one who finds this to be unalloyed ...

• Separation of Health and State Debate

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:29am PST by Bryan Caplan

  (March 10, 2010 11:29 AM, by Bryan Caplan) David Balan and I are going to debate "the Separation of Health and State" before the GMU Econ Society.  The time: Wednesday, March 24, at 5 PM.  The place: Fairfax campus of GMU, Enterprise 80.  The resolution:Significant ...

• The App Most Likely to Make Me Get an iPhone

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:01am PST by Bryan Caplan

  (March 10, 2010 11:01 AM, by Bryan Caplan) Time/happiness diaries just got a lot easier: There's now a Track Your Happiness app for the iPhone.  How does it work? Answer a few questions First we'll ask you some questions for statistical purposes. This will take ...

• John Nye on Economic History

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:55am PST by Arnold Kling

  (March 10, 2010 09:55 AM, by Arnold Kling) He writes, The greatest achievement of early modern economic growth was not the Industrial Revolution itself, but the way in which the leading Western economies began to move away from highly parochial, narrow networks of personal exchange ...

• Great Minds Think...Somewhat Differently

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:47am PST by Arnold Kling

  (March 10, 2010 09:47 AM, by Arnold Kling) Ethan Porter writes, Staunch environmentalist? Send some money to the EPA. Believe we need an infrastructure upgrade? Direct your funds to the Department of Transportation. Think we need to ramp up our national defense? Send extra tax ...

Mises Institute Daily Articles

• Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 11:09pm PST

  When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. But one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. ...