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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate hut at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups—Henry Hazlitt

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Sunday, March 29, 2026

EO-110 and the Politics of Price Suppression: How the Energy Emergency Is Becoming a Nationwide Economic Intervention

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Economics does not say that isolated government interference with the prices of only one commodity or a few commodities is unfair, bad, or...

Monday, September 30, 2013

Pork Barrel Scam Saga: Ferreting Out Corruption with Corruption

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It’s is of no puzzle for me to see how the supposed corruption-free ‘good governance’ has been all the while a rigmarole or “smoke and mirr...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Philippine Politics: The Pork Barrel is Dead. Long Live the Pork Barrel.

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In attempting to defuse a raging populist storm over the abuse of public earmarks allotted to elected leaders, the Philippine president sur...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Frédéric Bastiat on the 10 Billion Pesos Philippine Pork Barrel Scandal

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The unraveling Pork Barrel Scandal in the Philippine political system resonates on the admonitions of legal plunder by the great French cla...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

War on Bitcoin as US Government Tightens Grip

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INCREASINGLY desperate governments around the world will resort to various ways and means of preventing people from safeguarding their savi...

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