December 15, 2009 – 11:28 pm
Here’s a pretty good link from the FRB of St. Louis showing a timeline of financial crisis events, including this recent beauty:
December 11, 2009 | U.S. House of Representatives Press Release
The U.S. House of Representatives approves legislation that would create a Financial Stability Council to identify financial firms that pose systemic risk and which will be subject [...]
November 24, 2009 – 9:22 am
Sometimes SNL can be funny. Reality provides the best material.
November 20, 2009 – 7:05 am
Here in OZ the David Letterman show comes on around 1215am. It is not a show I watch but for some reason I found myself watching the “Stupid Human Tricks” segment. There was a girl, maybe 12, who jumped on a pogo stick and played the violin. Dave made a joke that she should drop [...]
November 13, 2009 – 10:03 pm
From the LRC blog:
The House Republican Conference released this chart. As this chart reflects, the White House claimed that without the stimulus unemployment would rise to almost 9%.
And here you can see the unemployment statistics from Shadowstats.com:
Sheldon Richman does an excellent FEE podcast on the so-called “stimulus” here.
October 16, 2009 – 5:21 am
I just cleaned up the article “101 Ways to Promote Libertarianism” (Part I and Part II) by Rothbard from The Libertarian Forum. Unless I find the rest it looks like there are only 35/101. Here are some of the better ones according to me:
4. Write a letter a week to some newspaper giving a libertarian viewpoint on [...]
October 6, 2009 – 5:33 am
When my father-in-law asked me for one succinct article to describe what libertarianism is and why it should even matter, this is the first one I came across. Rothbard is extremely persuasive and the logic is compelling. Say what you will about libertarians (i.e., anarcho-capitalists), at least their position is consistent.
Rothbard asks a question I [...]
October 2, 2009 – 3:06 am
When I lived in England a friend introduced me to this great show, “Yes, Prime Minister.” This was one of the great segments.
September 21, 2009 – 11:58 pm
Murray Rothbard was, of course, a huge fan of Lysander Spooner. Rothbard supported anarchist Benjamin Tucker as well but it seems Tucker shifted positions. Rothbard wrote about this in his “Introduction to Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Pietist, Vices are not Crimes”:
Yet, even in his own anarchist movement Spooner was the last of the Old Guard believers [...]
September 10, 2009 – 1:05 pm
After a busy teaching term and writing more on my thesis I am finally back. I have many posts that I have to catch up on…
Now that Human Action just celebrated its 60th anniversary I thought I would link to some recent items on Mises’ magnum opus:
Some FEE videos on the impact Human Action has [...]
I apologize for the lack of posts but I have been teaching entrepreneurship classes, 30 hours a week, for the last 5 weeks–only one more to go! It has just been non-stop, and every time I go to do a blog post–or anything–I realize how much I have to do to prepare for my classes. [...]
