Showing posts with label populist politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label populist politics. Show all posts
Monday, September 10, 2018

How Will the BSP’s Dour 3Q Consumer Sentiment Survey Affect the Real World? High CPI Equals Loss of the Leadership’s Popularity?

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Last week, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas   released   its 3Q consumer expectations survey which was mostly morose (CES): [bold mine] ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

The Socialist Illusions of "Change": Ludwig von Mises on the Ethics of Capitalism

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The election byword for any aspiring political candidate has always been about “CHANGE”. Yet the problem of populist clamor for C-H-A-N...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Cartoon of the Day: Dilbert Explains the Difference Between Economic Ignorance and Political Movement

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Dilbert on populist politics (hat tip: NYU Professor Bill Easterly )
Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Facebook Posts of the Day: Socialism Sounds Great in Speech Soundbites, US Populist Vote Against the Establishment

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The first post on socialism comes from Russian Chess Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (hat tip Cato's Dan Mit...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Quote of the Day: Against Political Romanticism

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At the Cafe Hayek, Professor Don J Boudreaux explains why he isn't a political romanticist I’m afraid that I don’t share your enthusi...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Quote of the Day: How Democracy Made Central Banking Possible

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Prior to democracy, loans were undertaken by monarchs, who were personally responsible for their loans. As Meir Kohn of the economics depa...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Government Failure: Thailand’s Rice Subsidies

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File this under another grand moment of government failure: Thailand’s rice subsidies From the Wall Street Journal Real Times Economic ...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

The Pope and Populist Politics

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Pope Francis plays populist politics by supposedly taking on an economic stand . Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories wh...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Why the Pork Barrel Will Unlikely be Abolished

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From today’s headlines : In face-to-face interviews with 1,200 respondents aged 18 and above who were randomly selected nationwide, Puls...