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Ahhh, the glories of the internets. Through the power of technology, I was able to take a tour of Rome just now using Google Maps with Street View, while sitting in front of my computer half naked. What a shit hole. Seriously, the tour made me want to kill myself. By American standards,...
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There once was a grizzled old man named Irwin who owned an insurance brokerage business. Irwin was a good businessman that people trusted to insure their possessions. Because Irwin was so good at serving his customers, he ended up making a lot of money. As Irwin set about growing his business and reinvesting his profits,...
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As America continues its devolution into a kleptocratic authoritarian fascist wasteland, psychological suffering has begun overwhelming many people. Anti-depressant usage by the adult population has increased by over 400% since 1988. Self-medication with marijuana, which acts as an anti-depressant, has also increased to its highest recorded point across practically every metric since 2002. For example, the...
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Recently Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship in a bid to prevent the mass theft of his capital gains from the IPO of Facebook. Saverin decided he would rather live in Singapore than fund the U.S. government with money that is taken from him by force. Saverin’s move did not sit well with a...
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Economist Jeffrey Herbener will be presenting a statement before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy of the U.S. House of Representatives today in which he presents the Austrian theory of money and credit, and in which he makes the case for market management of the money supply. I disagree with some of what Herbener is presenting, so...
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Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard. The shootings should serve as a reminder to us of what underlies all political processes: violence. The political process should more aptly be named the process of violent imposition, because any edict, no matter how small or inconsequential, is ultimately enforced with the...
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One of the things I find to be humorous about mainstream economics is the inclusion of government spending in the GDP metric. When government spending is included in this metric, it makes the assumption that government spending adds to the real wealth of the nation. Since “real” wealth translates into actual material goods and services that benefit...
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Ah… it’s that time of year again. *stretch* It’s time to pony up your share for the public good. In light of this festive occassion, I’ve decided to show you some of the “public good” your tax dollars paid for last year: Arresting business owners for selling raw milk. Arresting citizens for shingling their own home....
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In 1974, Friedrich Hayek (an Austrian Economist) won the Nobel Prize in economics. The following excerpt is part of his prize lecture. I will be adding commentary to demonstrate why Hayek’s speech from 1974 is still relevant today. In the speech, Hayek points out the problems with mainstream economics (which has changed relatively little...
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An article I authored for PolicyMic: In this series of PolicyMic articles (part 1, part 2 here), I am laying out my argument for the privatization of national defense. Because the thesis of privitazing national defense would be that its benefits would not be separable between parties — and free-loaders could potentially enjoy the benefits of national defense without paying for it — my argument...
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