Showing posts with label political centralization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political centralization. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Austrian Bureaucrat Loses $439 million of Taxpayers Money on Derivatives Gamble

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This is a prime example of negative externalities (or cost of a mistake to the society) derived from centralized institutions has far more ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Graphic of the Day: EUSSR

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British author, journalist and politician Daniel Hannan at the Telegraph writes , Take a close look at this promotional poster. Not...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Taxing Greeks: Separating Reality from Fiction

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This terse article gives us a glimpse of the mechanics of how wealthy Greeks has successfully been able to avoid paying taxes From the Wal...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Quote of the Day: On Banking Union

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But a banking union just makes the problem worse. Not today, maybe. But certainly tomorrow. What makes government action attractive is th...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Economic Integration is a Function of Economic Freedom, not Planned Chaos

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Cato’s Marian Tupy rightly points out that the much touted benefits from European Union’s integration has been overrated. The European...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Germany Wants New EU Constitution: Lebensraum Merkel Version?

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Sometimes I ponder upon the possibility that today’s crisis has been engineered to impose ulterior goals. In the resonant words of former W...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Euro Crisis: Path towards United States of Europe?

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Is the Emmanuel Rahm creed of using crisis as an opportunity to expand political power being tacitly enforced in the Eurozone? This from t...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

France-Germany Plot a Politically Centralized Eurozone with More Financial Repression

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The struggle to save the Euro has been giving windows of opportunities for Euro politicians to adapt the Emmanuel Rahm doctrine/creed—use th...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Greece Crisis: The Lehman Moment Hobgoblin

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But while, as in the lynch mob, the majority can become actively tyrannical and aggressive, the normal and continuing condition of the State...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Central Planning Failure: China’s “Train Wreck” Edition

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Think government knows what is best for us? This from Charles Lane of the Washington Post (hat tip Cato’s Dan Mitchell ) [bold emphasis m...
Friday, February 11, 2011

State Aid and Political Centralization

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The US appears to be headed for political centralization in spite of her Federal constitutional republic government framework . And this i...