Showing posts with label Mark Thornton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Thornton. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Quote of the Day: Prohibition Is The Major Cause Of Crime

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Austrian economist Mark Thornton in an interview with the Daily Bell Prohibition is the major cause of crime. There are the crimes asso...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Mark Thornton: How Smugglers Made America

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I’ve been saying here that smuggling represents “the unintended consequence of economic and financial repression that constitutes part of ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Video: Mark Thornton on How Silver Money Kept Inflation in Check

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From the Mises Blog Much of the history of Philippine money has been in commodity: gold/silver. This is until the US Congress enacte...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Video: Mark Thornton on Real Economic Growth versus Statistical Economic Growth

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"Don't be fooled by GDP (3:17)...you've got to be leery of statistics (4:14)"
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Video: Mark Thornton on the Unintended Economic Consequences of NSA Spying

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Austrian economist Mark Thornton explains of the unintended consequences from National Security Agency's (NSA) rampant spying  (Sou...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Mark Thornton on How to Read Mises

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Interested to learn more about the contributions of the leader of the Austrian school of economics, the late great Ludwig von Mises?  A...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Video: Mises Institute's Mark Thornton on the US "Government Shutdown"

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Mises Institute's Senior Fellow and Professor Mark Thornton clarifies the sensationalism over the alleged "government shutdown...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Does China’s Dubai Project Flop Signify as Signs of the Skyscraper Curse?

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More signs of the China’s imploding property bubble.  From the AFP (including above photo) It was billed as China's Dubai: ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Quote of the Day: Why Regulation Does Not Work

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Regulations do not make markets safer, more efficient, or work better for consumers in anything but a superficial sense. Regulation only p...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Failure of Alcohol Bans in the Muslim World

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I have been saying here that prohibition statutes are noble sounding “feel good” political actions that fails to accomplish their goals (in ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

War on Drugs: US Authorities Launder Drug Money, Corruption Risk Increases

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In the war on drugs, the dividing line between prosecuting criminals and becoming part of the crime becomes indistinct From the New York T...