Now he doesn’t actually call it a manifesto. But I think it makes a fine one. It’s brief and quite good. Definitely read the entire thing. Economic and personal liberty are inseparable. Façade Capitalism Means Façade Freedom: Political and personal freedoms require economic resources for their…
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Boudreaux on Complexity
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Wonderful column, worth the read. If only those with grand designs would understand their hubris. And the classic quote via The Unbroken Window: The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what…
Three On The Sequester: Sowell, Boudreaux, & Gillespie
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Two good reads. Nick Gillespie: 5 Scenes from a Sequestered America – Reason.com: “We’re not quite yet a week into the sequester,” writes Reason’s Nick Gillespie, who notes that just this morning he received an Obama fundraising email that called…
Boudreaux On The Fatal Silence of Markets
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Another brief and wonderfully-written column. Do read the entire thing, it’s brief. Silence golden for market economy – TribLIVE: But when the market works smoothly — as it typically does — hardly anyone notices. We take its successes for granted.…
The GOP & Sugar Tariffs
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I know I hit the political left pretty hard on this blog for their rampant economic ignorance and indifference. But fear not, Democrats and leftists of every stripe are not alone. The GOP is often just as bad, at times…
Boudreaux On Speculators
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This is an fantastic rant from Dr. Boudreaux. Enjoy, it’s a classic. Speculators Storm Safeway!: Have you noticed the enormous increase in greedy speculation in the northeast over the past two days? It’s quite something! In advance of hurricane Sandy, consumers are…
Boudreaux on Inflation
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Some good thoughts from Dr. Boudreaux on inflation. Deflating arguments for inflation – TribLIVE: First, empowering a monetary authority to debase money for good causes is to empower it to debase money for bad causes. Discretionary monetary policy necessarily rests…
Boudreaux Explains The Difference Between Use & Waste
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This is a fantastic column and analogy from Dr. Boudreaux. Definitely read it all, it’s brief. (pic via Wiki) The allegations from the NYT columnist are similar to those I hear from others that the plastic in water bottles is…
A Few Random Links …
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Public shaming of dogs Our favorite “forgotten tech”—from BeOS to Zip Drives Dr. Boudreaux with a legendary smack-down Koji Nakaya’s Aerial Tokyo Photoessay: Macau, part one – Ming Thein Sunbeam Alpine – Beachwood Canyon, CA Walmart again helps out the…
Boudreaux Makes Two Points Re: Social Security
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Two points on Social Security. A wonder and brief letter. While the first point is of course a slam-dunk, I really like the second. It’s far too often ignored, imho. Congress’s Untrustworthy Sticky Fingers and Social Security: Second, while Congress’s…