Showing posts with label legal plunder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal plunder. Show all posts
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...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Harvard’s Carmen Reinhart: Pensions are Screwed, Higher Inflation is a Safe Bet

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Harvard economist and professor Carmen Reinhart, who along with co-Harvard peer authored a book chronicling world crises in the bestseller,...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Folly of All for One

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And is not this the point that we have now reached? What is the cry going up everywhere, from all ranks and classes? All for one! When we...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Obama’s Fatal Conceit: Roster of Public Investment Disasters

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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. F. A. Haye...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Philippines Moves to Ban Coin Collection

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The Philippine government has expanded her version of financial repression Using flimsy scapegoats, a bill has been filed to criminalize c...
Friday, April 20, 2012

China’s Political System Reeks of Legal Plunder

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Internal political schism in China, highlighted by recent rumors of a coup attempt , may have been one of the main factors that has incited ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

UK’s Government Discourages Charity

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We are often told that the private sector is instinctively greedy, and thus requires intervention to spread ‘charity’ and ‘compassion’. W...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Inequality: Chinese Politicians Wealthier than US Peers

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Wall Street activists and the left should look at this, wealth of politicians in China and the US have been ballooning Reports the Bloombe...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Cartoon of the Day: Different Types of Looting

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This caricature below is almost an exact depiction of what’s been happening around the world today. (hat tip Mises Blog Jonathan Catalan an...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Why Crony Capitalism Pays: The Cojuangco-PCGG-San Miguel Case

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If one must understand why the ‘politics of plunder’ remains and will constitute as an important driver of the Philippine political economy ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Scorecard For The Philippines

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We’ve been told that elections would usher in important positive socio-economic changes. But where things matters most, particularly econo...