Showing posts with label Robert Higgs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Higgs. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Quote of the Day: Enough is Enough. No Endorsement to State Plunder of People Through Elections

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Austrian economist Robert Higgs posted at his Facebook page : I realize that the suspense may become unbearable unless I make the follow...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Quote of the Day: Why the Worst 'Politicians' Get on Top: The Comparative Advantage

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Austrian economist and Senior fellow at The Independent Institute Robert Higgs discuss the modern day application of the great FA Hayek'...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Quote of the Day: Politicians are Inveterate Liars

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Writes Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy at The Independent Institute (source of the below quote) and editor at Large of th...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Quote of the Day: The Scarcest Ability Among Economist is Good Judgment

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I am thinking that you may well share my view, which I have held for a very long time, that the scarcest ability among economists (and oth...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Quote of the Day: The police don’t work for us

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The police don’t work for us, if by “us” we mean you, me, and at least 95 percent of the rest of the population. On the contrary: we work ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Quote of the Day: From Socialism to Economic Fascism

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The philosophy of socialism — in essence, the naked claim that one should have what another has produced — is as old as mankind. The socie...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Myth of “Failed” Policies

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Many people, for good reason, have concluded that the surest test of whether a politician or public official is lying is to ask, Are his l...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Robert Higgs: Don’t Rely on a Quack Doctor

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A wonderful must read parable from Austrian economist Robert Higgs at the Independent Institute Blog (hat tip Mises Blog) A man goes to...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Quote of the Day: Elections Are and Always Mostly a Sham

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Scholars have been slow to appreciate that elections are and always have been for the most part a sham – a mere ceremony intended to make ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Taxman is My Shepherd

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The IRS is my shepherd; I shall live in want. It maketh me to lie down with expensive accountants; it leadeth me to consort with disreputa...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Quote of the Day: Price controls Create a Population of Liars

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Economists are trained in theory, statistics, modeling, and other skills. Historians are trained in the careful scrutiny and interpretatio...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Robert Higgs: Strategy for Winning People Over to Libertarianism

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Austrian economist Robert Higgs at the Independent Institute articulates on how the ideals of libertarianism can be won through the premis...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Robert Higgs: How Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor

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71 years ago December 7, the Japanese government bombed Pearl Harbor . This “day of infamy” has been portrayed by the mainstream as having ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Quote of the Day: Participatory Fascism

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For thirty years or so, I have used the term “participatory fascism,” which I borrowed from my old friend and former Ph.D. student Charlo...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Regime Uncertainty and US Employment Woes

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Dr. Ed Yardeni’s noteworthy perspective on the recent ‘conspiracy theory’ controversy over US employment data: (bold added)   The ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Progressive Ideology: The 10 Paths to Nirvana

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Progressives or the neo-liberalsm who account for populist politics in the US, unwaveringly embrace big government Professor Robert Higgs ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Brain Dead Economics: Wars as Economic Stimulus

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Marketwatch columnist and former war veteran Paul Farrell is aghast at politicians who are agitating for war in the guise of ‘stimulating th...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Quote of the Day: Hatred is the Essence of Politics

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In politics and government, however, the institutional makeup fosters hatred at every turn. Parties recruit followers by exploiting hatre...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Quote of the Day: World War II Did Not End the Great Depression

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Unemployment fell during the war entirely because of the buildup of the armed forces. In 1940, some 4.62 million persons were actually un...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

America’s Growing Dependency on the Welfare State

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Proof that Americans have become less a representative of “the land of the free” has been the deepening trend of dependency on the welfare ...