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In recent years a good part of the monetary debate has become a simple war of words, with much of the conflict focused on the definition for the word "inflation." Whereas economists up until the 1960's or 1970's mostly defined inflation as an expansion of the money supply, the vast majority now see it as simply rising prices. Since then the "experts" have gone further and devised variations on the word "inflation" (such as "deflation," "disinflation," and "stagflation"). And while past central b... (more)

GM, Product Safety, and Death

Robert P. Murphy

Apr 07

The reports that GM deliberately avoided a recall for a defective ignition switch�which led to at least 13 fatalities�because of cost considerations has led to predictable denunciations of capitalist greed. Michael Moore epitomizes this reaction:

I am opposed to the death penalty, but to every rule there is usually an exception, and in this case I <... (more)

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Three-Quarters Of Americans Who Signed Up For Obamacare Now Have Higher Premiums

CBS Cleveland

Apr 01

A Closer Look at Income Inequality

Mises Institute

Apr 01

Mark Faber: The Old World Order Is Over

Zero Hedge

Apr 01

Organic winemaker faces 6 months in prison and �30,000 fine for not using pesticide

The Ecologist

Mar 31

Maryland to reportedly abandon $125M ObamaCare exchange for new system

Fox News

Mar 31

Is College A Waste Of Time And Money?

The Economic Collapse

Mar 27

Are you thinking of going to college?� If so, please consider that decision very carefully.� You probably have lots of people telling you that an "education" is the key to your future and that you will never be able to get a "good job" unless you go to college.� And it is true that those that go to college do earn more on average than those that do not.� However, there is also a downside.� At most U.S. colleges, the quality of the education that you will receive is a joke, the goal of most colle... (more)

IRS slams Bitcoin millionaires with new tax rules... Is gold next?

Sovereign Man

Mar 27

Austrians and the Private-Property Society: An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Mises Institute

Mar 26

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught with Murray N. Rothbard from 1985 to 1995. He is the author of Handln und Erkennen (1976), Kritik deer Kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung(1983), Eigentum, Anarchie, und Staat (1987), A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (1989), and The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993), as well as many articles in the former Revie... (more)

We Do Not Live in a Post-Scarcity World

William L. Anderson

Mar 26

Jeremy Rifkin long has perfected the art of adding two and two and getting five. In the 1980s, he claimed that entropy made it impossible for a free economy to exist, and therefore Rifkin concluded the state needed to plan and run things. How the state would triumph over the second law of thermodynamics is anyone's guess. He later declared that a new "hydrogen economy" was just around the corner -- government just needed to engage in central planning and order hydrogen to be our new fuel of choi... (more)

A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year

The Economic Collapse

Mar 25

If you are like most Americans, paying taxes is one of your pet peeves.� The deadline to file your federal taxes is coming up, and this year Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes and will hand over more than four trillion dollars to federal, state and local governments.� Americans will fork over nearly 30 percent of what they earn to pay their income taxes, but tha... (more)

The federal 'structuring' laws are smurfin' ridiculous

Washington Post

Mar 25

Government "Services" Explained In Under 30 Seconds

InformationLiberation

Mar 25