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Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone. Sure, you can vote for the obvious Nicole Kidman and Ann Hathaway. But what good is
http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/18/the-new-slave-masters/Police are the first class citizens now. The rest of us, we’re all the n-word. Source date (UTC): 2011-11-18 13:48:00 UTC
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078790According to this study, the more you swear, the less effective it becomes at reducing pain. That’s not really material though is it. I just use “F__K” as many times
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/iowa/2012_iowa_republican_caucusRon Paul has illustrated that libertarians have grown sufficiently to constitute 10 to 15% of the electorate. However, the country is heavily conservative, and where it is not conservative, it
On the Economist’s View, a Dr Why, a commenter says In the United States, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies redistribute income mainly from the rich to the poor, which is
On the Economist’s View, a Dr Why, a commenter says In the United States, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies redistribute income mainly from the rich to the poor, which is
Curt, You posted once that archaeological digs of dead civilizations show poorer food near the surface than deep down (where the golden-age relics are found). So. . . I saw
On Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Nick Rowe asks “Why isn’t NGDP targeting a lefty thing?” and asks why the right seems to support it, instead of supporting inflation targeting. My reply
On Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Nick Rowe asks “Why isn’t NGDP targeting a lefty thing?” and asks why the right seems to support it, instead of supporting inflation targeting. My reply
http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/why-does-the-right-lean-toward-ngdp-targeting/Why the right leans toward targeting NGDP. (If I was only this patient when I wrote all the time.) Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 11:03:00 UTC
http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/can-we-predict-bubbles-and-dont-we-really-want-them/There are things we don’t want to know. Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 11:03:00 UTC
Lessons From Gene Simmons? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060593/Could-man-save-Britain-s-economy-After-building-personal-fortune–100m-rocks-scariest-star-Gene-Simmons-just-invited-lecture-economists.html Source date (UTC): 2011-11-12 09:30:00 UTC
Predicting Bubbles on Modeled Behavior: I think we can see and measure booms and bubbles. I just think we’re lying to ourselves when we say we want to stop them.
New York-themed bakeries in Moscow. Priceless. Source date (UTC): 2011-11-12 00:28:00 UTC
“In four years of reflection and rather intense involvement with this financial crisis, not a single aspect of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium has seemed worth even a passing thought. …
The assertion that Europe’s crisis proves that the welfare state doesn’t work comes from many Republicans. … The idea, presumably, is that the crisis countries are in trouble because they’re
I love Russia. I love Russians. I love all the crazy wonderful stuff about them. Source date (UTC): 2011-11-09 14:22:00 UTC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016lklv/iPM_05_11_2011/The case for Monarchy. Constitutional monarchy, with property rights under the common law is the best form of government yet developed. Hoppe’s forceful argument is that under monarchy we had
from Modeled Behavior on the Jobs Report Yes, the average citizen can attest to the fact that you’re correct simply by casual observation while living daily life. The problem you’re
Illustrating The Moral Dilemma Of Monetary Policy Using An OWS Poster http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/illustrating-the-moral-dilemma-of-monetary-policy-using-an-ows-poster/ Source date (UTC): 2011-11-05 10:37:15 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/132768432369319936