Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system
Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system, in which big and long lasting corporations pay over 90% of their profit, and the more wealth that you make the higher taxes…
Is economics considered a science?
Is economics considered a science? If so why? Isn’t money and value merely an agreed upon idea? A paper dollar has value because we all believe it does. Even gold’s value is based on belief.…
Ludwig von Mises on Politics and Ideas
Ludwig von Mises spoke/wrote these words in 1958. He was optimistic that good ideas (loosely, free markets and free minds) would defeat bad ideas via good men and women standing up for and defending these…
Is Social Security included in adjusted gross income?
In the United States, the term adjusted gross income has the smell of US Federal Tax Form 1040, and accordingly, yes; which is both a shame and a sham as the younger you are, the…
The Problem with State Planners
The problem with state planners, whether communist or fascist, is arrogance. A statist views its particular plan as self-evidently true and just, as natural as falling off of a log while viewing other plans —…
The Case Against the Fed | Mises Institute
In this audio book, Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Source: The Case Against the Fed | Mises Institute
An Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Wall Is So Implausible – and Bastiat
Yes, we could build a wall as Trump has proposed. Let’s st aside the important matter of whether that is a good idea in terms of immigration reform or US-Mexico relations. It has been suggested…
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen; by Frederic Bastiat
I. THE BROKEN WINDOWHave you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a square of glass? If you have been present at such a scene,…
Ron Paul – Stop Dreaming
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that do not have brains enough to be honest. –Benjamin Franklin
Keynesianism Loves the Total State
Hat tip to the Mises Institute. From the Foreword to the German Edition of Keynes’ General Theory: The theory of aggregate production, which is the point of the following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted…