Topic: Murray Rothbard
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Decoder Wire Is Ron Paul (maybe) getting ready to endorse Mitt Romney?
Ron Paul's campaign website recently has featured pieces arguing that the 'mere act of endorsing' another politician (Mitt Romney or anyone) is not an abdication of libertarian principles.
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The Circle Bastiat Can you yell 'run' in a crowded bank?
Many states have laws on the books prohibiting anyone from making disparaging comments about a particular bank’s financial condition. This talk is thought to be outside free speech because rumors can trigger a bank run, but a recent ruling has some banks worried.
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The Circle Bastiat The euro exodus from Greece and Spain
Wary depositors are hauling billions of euros our of Greek and Spanish banks, reflecting the nervous mood of the people.
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The Circle Bastiat Should we change the way we teach economics?
Because of the recent financial crisis, teaching the basic principles of economics is harder than ever.
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The Circle Bastiat Is Ron Paul's gold standard idea dangerous?
Ron Paul wants to end the Fed and go back to the gold standard. Many call that a dangerous idea, but the US was quite prosperous on the gold standard.
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Has the 'Occupy' movement jumped the shark?
Yesterday's "Occupy ports" day wasn't a protest of how international trade is conducted, but a protest against international trade itself. Have the protesters gone too far?
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The Federal Housing Administration may need bailing out
With the housing market crash continuing on government time, it should be no surprise that the FHA’s cash reserves have fallen to such a level that the odds are 50/50 the agency will run out of money and be looking to the Treasury to keep its doors open.
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Is insider trading really a crime?
Insider trading is in the spotlight again, following Raj Rajaratnam's conviction last week. Is the government crackdown on insider trading an interference with beneficial economic activity?
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Does every right come at somebody else's expense?
Sometimes, the 'cost' imposed on others is meaningless.
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'Cost' means what, exactly?
'Cost' is the opportunity that you have to give up in order to do something else. But how can this concept be measured in dollars?
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Ex-Sec. of Homeland Security: Use my nude scanners or be sexually assaulted
Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, has ties to Rapiscan, one of two companies producing the unpopular airport imaging scanners.
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Hoover's dam folly: Why Keynesian New Deal policies failed
Politicians cannot calculate the economic profits and losses of government interventions.
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Entrepreneurship and economics: An awkward relationship
Though entrepreneurship is important, modern theories of firm strategy don't quite understand out how to work the entrepreneur into the standard models and analytical techniques.
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Should we be upbeat on unemployment?
The April jobs report was described as "upbeat," with the reported 290,000 positive job gain the best in four years.
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Rothbardian antibank league on the rise
Murray Rothbard believed that in a free society plain citizens could bring inflationary fractional reserve banks to heel through “antibank leagues" – deliberate and concerted campaigns to get people to withdraw their deposits in cash.
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Ron Paul: an absolute faith in free markets and less government
The 10-term congressman from Texas has been a strict constitutionalist since he came into public life some 30 years ago.
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