Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts
Friday, July 07, 2017

Quote of the Day: Is War What Makes a President 'Great'?

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“War is seen as a great challenge,” Bueno de Mesquita reflects, “so people don’t really question how we got into it unless it fails. All p...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Quote of the Day:The Virtue of a Free System: The Consumer’s Plebiscite

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The test of an economic system lies in the choices it offers, the alternatives that are open to the people living under it. When choices ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Quote of the Day: 'Angry Votes' and Populism: Will History Rhyme?

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A short breadth of the past political leadership: (bold mine) With the demise of the Marcos regime, oligarchical democracy was quickly...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Quote of the Day: Enough is Enough. No Endorsement to State Plunder of People Through Elections

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Austrian economist Robert Higgs posted at his Facebook page : I realize that the suspense may become unbearable unless I make the follow...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Quote of the Day: Prohibition Is The Major Cause Of Crime

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Austrian economist Mark Thornton in an interview with the Daily Bell Prohibition is the major cause of crime. There are the crimes asso...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Quote of the Day: The Global Warming Theory has Failed. Money, Politics and Ideology have Replaced Science

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In celebration of Earth Day, the Weather Channel founder John Coleman vented: (source USA Today /ht zero hedge) The environmentalists, b...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Quote of the Day: Why Saudi Arabia May Become The Mideast’s Newest Hotspot

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Writes historian Eric Margolis at the Lew Rockwell.com Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have been de facto US-British-French protectorat...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Quote of the Day: What Goes Around Comes Around, Even Central Banks Suffer from Negative Rates

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Spontaneous Finance Blog's Julien Noizet pointed out that the perceived "free lunch" from negative interest rates hasn't...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Quote of the Day: The Real Problem is Government

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Libertarian, anarcho capitalist and savvy investor Doug Casey at the International Man expounds on the roots of society's malaise: the...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Quote of the Day: Why Drinking Water is Not a Public Good

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A public good, according to Econ 101, has two specific characteristics: it is (1) non-excludable and (2) non-rivalrous in consumption. ...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

Quote of the Day: Liberalism is No religion, No World View, No Party of Special Interests

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Liberalism is no religion, no world view, no party of special interests. It is no religion because it demands neither faith nor devotion, ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Quote of the Day: There is No Difference between Psychopaths and Politicians

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At the Rutherford Institute , Attorney John W. Whitehead writes of the similarities between politicians and sociopaths: There is no diff...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Quote of the Day: The Person Who is Best Qualified to Govern You is You

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From self development and libertarian author Robert Ringer at his website : (italics original) All this by way of saying that because ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Quote of the Day: Why the Worst 'Politicians' Get on Top: The Comparative Advantage

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Austrian economist and Senior fellow at The Independent Institute Robert Higgs discuss the modern day application of the great FA Hayek...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Quote of the Day: More Socialism Means Less Real Democracy

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From economic professor Sandy Ikeda at the FEE.org : The greater the degree of central planning, the less the authority can put up with ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Quote of the Day: Paying people to borrow money is just crazy; No Money Down Loan Philippine Edition

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Sovereign Man's Simon Black on a 2008 Déjà vu bubble but at a larger scale :  This feeling was only reinforced when I whipped out my...
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...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Quote of the Day: The Difference Between Minimum Wages and Free Markets on Unemployment

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Professor Don Boudreaux at the Cafe Hayek provides an awesome explanation : (bold mine) (1) The unemployment caused by a minimum wage is...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Quote of the Day: Whose Conspiracy?

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From former economist, blogger and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy Paul Craig Roberts at this website What dist...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Quote of the Day: Why Global Defense Spending Will Be a Drag on the Global Economy

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Australian author, financial analyst and former banker, Satyajit Das at the Marketwatch debunks the ( Keynesian) myth of economic prosperi...