Showing posts with label political religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political religion. Show all posts
Friday, March 15, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Religion of Democracy

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Modern social theory clings to two ultimate presuppositions. First, men are motivated by economic self-interest. Second, democratic instit...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Combination of Bad Economics and Bad History is Pernicious.

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Few intellectual activities are more mischievous when done poorly than economics or history.  The power of fallacious economic reasoning o...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Video Jon Stewart on the $1 Trillion Platinum Coin: It's a Stupid F*cking Idea

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Hat tip: Mises Blog The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , The ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

World Economic Trend: Mercantilism or Globalization?

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To paraphrase a recent comment I received from a mercantilist: Because of the US dollar standard, mercantilism have been more prevalent tod...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Bastiat on the Political Religion of Mercantilism

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What I call as political religion is a deeply held or entrenched belief in theory which is in reality signifies as massive self-contradicti...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Fallacy of Redistribution

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Those who talk glibly about redistribution often act as if people are just inert objects that can be placed here and there, like pieces on...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Glass Steagall Myth

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From Washington Post’s Steve Pearlstein. (hat tip Bob Wenzel) Repeal of Glass-Steagall has become for the Democratic left what Fannie ...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Estonian President Slams Paul Krugman

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When apologists for the state don’t have developments going their way, they intuitively employ verbal sleight of hand as defense mechanism. ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Politics a Key Factor for Facebook Unfriends

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From Slate Spouting off about political issues on Facebook and other social sites may be bad for your friend count, according to a new ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Religion called Environmentalism

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The hallmark of science is a commitment to follow arguments to their logical conclusions; the hallmark of certain kinds of religion is a ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

HOT: Charges of Corruption in the Vatican

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Even the Vatican has not been spared from charges of corruption and from internal political power struggles. From the Daily Mail , Va...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Client Accounts Transfer from MF Global Holdings may trigger Market Volatility Next Week

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Transfers of client accounts from bankrupt futures brokerage MF Global Holdings to new brokers may cause some market volatility next week du...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vatican supports Occupy Wall Street

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From the Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for sweeping reforms of the world economy and the creation of a ethical, global authority...
Monday, April 11, 2011

China' Potemkin Cities and Malls

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Here are two videos showing China's obsession towards Keynesian GDP spending which has resulted, so far, to 64 million vacant apartments...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

Correlation Isn't Causation: Food Prices and Global Riots

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The IMF says that the string of antigovernment protests worldwide are all about rising food prices. The Wall Street Journal blog writes , ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Should The Philippines Wage War With China Over The Executions Of The Drug Mules?

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“It is just that the Philippines is less powerful than China in warfare” remarked a neighbor in the allusion that the Philippines is powerle...
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