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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate hut at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups—Henry Hazlitt

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Free Trade As Unilateral Policy

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A popular objection to free trade is when a nation's trading partner is perceived as having to apply mercantilist policies, then trade ...

Cognitive Dissonance: Associating MENA Political Crisis Or Oil Prices With Weak EM Equities

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Listening to media and to their “experts” or to mainstream chitchats will give you a false impression of what’s been happening. Some wou...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Video: Repairing The Nation’s Balance Sheets By Limiting Growth of Government Spending

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Cato’s Dan Mitchell has a nice video showing examples of the actual experiences of different nations in restraining government spending whic...

Maria Lourdes Aragon: Another Celebrity Sensation From Globalization?

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Just like Charice Pempengco and Journey’s Arnold Pineda before her, Canadian based 10 year old Filipina Maria Lourdes Aragon looks likely t...

The Middle Of The Road Policy Of A Local Free Market Group

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I was delighted to learn about the existence of a “free market” group in the country, especially that it seemed to have several prominent me...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Video: 10 Core Principles of Classical Liberalism

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Dr. Nigel Ashford of Senior Program Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University, explains the 10 core princ...

Quote of the Day: Rape is About Power

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On the sexual assault and beating CBS reporter Lara Logan suffered during the Egyptian Riots , writes Amanda Taub of Wronging Rights … “th...

People Adapt To Climates, Intervention Not Required

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That’s the message of Matt Ridley and Indur Goklany, as they write against relying on climate models to argue for political interventionism....

Emergent Signs Of People Power In China

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The Web based People Power revolution appears to have diffused into China. From AP/Yahoo, Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any dom...

Capitulating Deflationists: It’s John Mauldin’s Turn

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Like Nouriel Roubini whom I pointed out earlier , we see another deflationist throwing in the proverbial ‘towel’. From ‘Fisherian’ John Ma...

Usury Prohibition: Medieval Crony Capitalism

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During medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church via Pope Benedict XIV promulgated usury prohibition or Vix Pervenit: On Usury and Other D...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

MENA Revolutions Are Not People Power!

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That’s according to some pundits who claim that unfolding events in the Middle East and Africa have not accounted for as People’s Power. T...

Resurgent Gold Equals Resurgent Emerging Market Bourses?

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By the way, full employment was one of the main justifications for the Reichsbank's inflationist monetary policies. So nothing has chang...

Phisix: What Market Internals Are Saying

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A short comment on the market breadth of the Phisix. The Phisix registered its first official weekly gain for 2011. In 6 weeks through t...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Knowledge Revolution: Creators and Servers

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The transition towards Toffler’s Third Wave or the Hayekian knowledge revolution isn’t just my outlook. I t is likewise shared by some, who ...

Libertarianism And The Internet

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The ever brilliant GMU Professor Bryan Caplan notes that the social skills of libertarian students have materially increased over the past f...

China’s Real Estate Bubble: Using Divorce As Regulatory Arbitrage

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The cat and mouse game between the regulators and the markets or regulatory arbitrages have not been limited to institutions. Even individ...
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Regulatory Arbitrage: Some Banks In The US Circumvent The New Capital Rule

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The major flaws of the interventionist ideology are that they seem to always figuratively “fight the last war”, treat symptoms rather than t...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Filibustering Via Voting Boycott

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In politics you can expect the unexpected. In the state of Wisconsin in the US, minority lawmakers reportedly resorted to a bizarre form o...
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