Curt Doolittle

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  • Boettke Quoting Evans: Priceless “Whether we “blame” central bankers or not is r

    Boettke Quoting Evans: Priceless

    “Whether we “blame” central bankers or not is really a secondary consideration to our attempts to understand what happened and why. By assigning blame we suggest that the Fed should have done better. … But the problem isn’t that individuals focused on the wrong targets, and the solution isn’t to work out how they can improve. The lesson should be that the nature of central banking – the attempt to centrally plan the monetary system – imposes an epistemic burden on policymakers that they cannot possibly ever fulfill. “

    Yep. Priceless.

    We should not attempt to find or train humans to suit our ideal concept of government. We should make a government that will tolerate the existence of the limits and frailty of humans.

    And that is to say, the least government that is possible.

    I don’t mean to say that we should eschew development of public services by private means. I simply mean to say that government is outside of the information system of the market, and as such, it is as blind as the statue of Justice was ever imagined to be.

    While my libertarian friends do not agree, men do not hate government per se. They hate the abuse of it that is endemic to any bureaucracy, and in particular a monopolistic bureaucracy that exists outside of the market.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-01-05 15:27:00 UTC

  • Canada’s to-do list for 2012: No. 1. Become an absolute monarchy | iPolitics

    Canada’s to-do list for 2012: No. 1. Become an absolute monarchy | iPolitics http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/01/01/canadas-to-do-list-for-2012-no-1-become-an-absolute-monarchy/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-01-01 16:37:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/153515291186438144

  • EVERYTHING FRENCH IS BAD EXCEPT THE FOOD AND ARCHITECTURE

    A quote from Hans Hermann Hoppe:

    Hoppe also condemned the French revolution as belonging in “the same category of vile revolutions as the Bolshevik revolution and the Nazi revolution,” because the French revolution led to “Regicide, Egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, hatred of all religion, terror measures, mass plundering, rape and murder, military draft and the total, ideologically motivated War.”

    Let’s add to that a condemnation of French philosophers who twisted and then ruined the concept of English freedom by converting what had been a practical and empirical philosophy into an evangelical, ideological, verbally-empty absurdity which they used to justify taking power from and destroying both the monarchy and the catholic church — and by consequence they created the body of work that Marx would use to compose his irrational economic plague and pseudo-religion which in turn caused 160M deaths. Hitler is laughing in his grave. The Deutch Mark simply had to dress in Euro clothing in order to accomplish in only 20 years, profitably, and without firing a shot, what he had hoped to accomplish with his expensive purges and war. If you could to travel in time and kill only one religious philosopher in history at birth, it’s a tossup whether that should be Zoroaster, Abraham, Mohammed, Rousseau or Marx.

  • EVERYTHING FRENCH IS BAD EXCEPT THE FOOD AND ARCHITECTURE A quote from Hans Herm

    EVERYTHING FRENCH IS BAD EXCEPT THE FOOD AND ARCHITECTURE

    A quote from Hans Hermann Hoppe:

    Hoppe also condemned the French revolution as belonging in “the same category of vile revolutions as the Bolshevik revolution and the Nazi revolution,” because the French revolution led to “Regicide, Egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, hatred of all religion, terror measures, mass plundering, rape and murder, military draft and the total, ideologically motivated War.”

    Let’s add to that a condemnation of French philosophers who twisted and then ruined the concept of English freedom by converting what had been a practical and empirical philosophy into an evangelical, ideological, verbally-empty absurdity which they used to justify taking power from and destroying both the monarchy and the catholic church — and by consequence they created the body of work that Marx would use to compose his irrational economic plague and pseudo-religion which in turn caused 160M deaths.

    Hitler is laughing in his grave. The Deutch Mark simply had to dress in Euro clothing in order to accomplish in only 20 years, profitably, and without firing a shot, what he had hoped to accomplish with his expensive purges and war.

    If you could to travel in time and kill only one religious philosopher in history at birth, it’s a tossup whether that should be Zoroaster, Abraham, Mohammed, Rousseau or Marx.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-01-01 07:15:00 UTC

  • “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people

    “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” — George Washington

    There was no lack of clarity between the founders. The purpose of weapons is to make your government fear abusing you.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-31 20:53:00 UTC

  • Sentences to ponder: ban the i-words via @AddThis

    Sentences to ponder: ban the i-words http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/sentences-to-ponder-ban-the-i-words.html#.TtLtjMNNVBQ.twitter via @AddThis

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-30 15:46:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/152777704918355968

  • of Demand. But for What? Yet another excuse for justifying the expansion of the

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2011/12/28/classifying-people-by-state-rather-than-occupation-simply-justifies-the-state/Lack of Demand. But for What? Yet another excuse for justifying the expansion of the state.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-28 08:49:00 UTC

  • every one of Paul’s foreign policy positions the Republican establishment calls

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/27/why-the-establishment-really-fears-ron-paul/”For every one of Paul’s foreign policy positions the Republican establishment calls “nuts,” you can find revered conservative figures, past and present, who have expressed similar positions: The Iraq War was a “mistake” (Bill Buckley, Robert Novak, Jack Kemp); America shouldn’t be the “world’s policeman” (Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist, Dick Armey); America’s constant intervention overseas causes “blowback” (Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, Pat Buchanan).”

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-27 10:59:00 UTC

  • WARFARE Worth Reading: It’s the 5% against the 1%

    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/class-war-within-a-class-war/CLASS WARFARE

    Worth Reading: It’s the 5% against the 1%.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-25 20:00:00 UTC

  • DON’T HAVE TO WEAPONIZE IT. THE BIRDS ARE DOING THAT FOR US” I had the nasty flu

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alarm-as-dutch-lab-creates-highly-contagious-killer-flu-6279474.html”WE DON’T HAVE TO WEAPONIZE IT. THE BIRDS ARE DOING THAT FOR US”

    I had the nasty flu that killed so many people back in 1977, and my health has never fully recovered. I don’t know if the conspiracy nuts are right or wrong in suggesting that the Swine Flu escaped the lab. But either way it wasn’t very fun.

    I also got the flu that killed a few hundred people in Europe in the winter of 1996-1997. (It made for an interesting vacation. I soldiered onward anyway. I lost 25 pounds because of it.)

    H5N1 (the bird flu) only has an R0 (reproductive rate) of 1.14+. But it had a 60% mortality rate. (They call it ‘morbidity rate’ in the literature.) The relatively low rate of transmission was due to the fact that you had to be in pretty close contact to get it. I’ve seen a few other studies where the measured reproductive rate reached over 2.0 (although they were smaller samples.) The common flu we get every year seems to come in at around 2.

    But these researchers have bred an aerosol variant (one that can be spread by sneezing for example). And sure, the really scary diseases have R0’s of 5 to 15. But let’s just say that that we go from 1.14 to 1.6, to something like 2.2 to 4.

    I mean, Soderberg’s movie is scary enough as it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-19 21:02:00 UTC