Thoughts

Over On “League of Ordinary Gentlemen” there is a very long thread fitfully attempting to be critical of Libertarianism. It’s interesting how almost no one on the thread understands anything

On Modeled Behavior, Karl posts that Unemployment is ‘Awful’. And he posts a chart illustrating that losing a job is a serious emotional experience. But, the most obvious conclusion from

The Leftist blog Economists View posts that Stiglitz writes that there is an ideological crisis in western capitalism. by which he simply means the “right is wrong”, and Stiglitz is

The Leftist blog Economists View posts that Stiglitz writes that there is an ideological crisis in western capitalism. by which he simply means the “right is wrong”, and Stiglitz is

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3158A propertarian analysis of patriotism. (FWIW: I’m an anti-statist, but an advocate of minimal, constitutional, private government.) Source date (UTC): 2011-07-06 22:16:00 UTC

Chicago in July. Brutal. Seattle weather has made me soft. Source date (UTC): 2011-07-06 13:44:00 UTC

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3150A bit profound for a statement about patriotism. But valuable if one seeks to understand it. Source date (UTC): 2011-07-05 23:23:00 UTC

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People do not choose their values so much as they choose those values that help them create a world view that requires the least amount of problem-solving, and returns the

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Programs/ES/BPEA/2011_spring_bpea_papers/2011_spring_bpea_conference_burda.pdfGermany started with higher unemployment and contracted less. “Far from suffering its worst labor market response since the war, as the United States did, Germany employment barely fell. … the

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/04/krauthammer_middle-aged_may_never_get_employed_again.html#.ThMr2PaN3sc.facebookThe problem of “Beached White Males”. The middle aged unemployed may never be employed again. If we distort the economy with credit so that people pursue careers that are only

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3137The failure of Misesian and Rothbardian Apriorism. (I’m going to catch flack for this one for sure.) Source date (UTC): 2011-07-05 11:19:00 UTC

I love my country. The world is a better place because of the American Constitution. And the evidence is clear that everyone has been better off having been an English

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?page_id=1145Took the BBC survey. I’ve read 44 of 100 BBC Novels. Unfortunately there are Lots of complaints about that list since it was published. Politically weighted. Female weighted. (Where is

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3124Paul Krugman does it yet again. Sigh. Source date (UTC): 2011-07-03 10:03:00 UTC

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3119The left’s hollow fantasy in a Center Right Society. Source date (UTC): 2011-07-03 09:40:00 UTC

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=3112The only people that think about Marxism any longer are silly people in the liberal arts who are so invested in the Marxian fantasy that they cannot change even if

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sources_assault_case_against_apart_9p7wWKT0k7qa8X2Qwt8lZITurns out the Maid was an experienced con artist. Source date (UTC): 2011-07-01 11:11:00 UTC

http://nihcm.org/images/stories/NIHCM-CostBrief-Email.pdf5% of the US population spends 50% of healthcare dollars. 50% of the US population spends only 3% of healthcare dollars. Source date (UTC): 2011-06-30 20:42:00 UTC

Keynesian Stagnationism is diametrically opposed to Creative Destruction. We cannot forecast the future. But we can choose to allow ourselves to build it. The western social technologies of competition, science,