December, 2011 // Posts published in December, 2011
Distinguishing Chaos from Incomprehensible Order
Investment idea for 2012
As an economist I am asked the question “what should I invest in.” With the Fed’s zero interest rate policy this question has been posed to me more times than I could count. I have one investment suggestion that has always increased in value, pays increasing dividends and has easily outpaced inflation. The worse things get in the economy, the better this investment performs. I recommend investing in the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It has been a rock solid investment for nearly 30 years. The size, reach and influence of the Institute has only increased and Austrian economics is now ...
Rand Paul Joins Ron Paul in Iowa
Historic instance of a U.S. Senator campaigning for his father, a U.S. Congressman, in run-up to the consequential 2012 Iowa Caucus ANKENY, Iowa – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul and his son U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will conduct a daylong whistle-stop tour to energize Iowa caucus goers on the day prior to the ...
Iowa’s Choice: Ron Paul or U.S. Bankruptcy, More Wars, and Many More Dead Soldiers and Marines
by Michael Scheuer Two recent experiences underlined for me what Iowans will vote for next week in the field of foreign policy if they do not vote for Dr. Ron Paul. On Christmas day, I heard Chris Wallace’s program on FOX. He had a guest — Mr. Charles Lane — who made the false and ...
Deep Thoughts From The Guardian
Will the Republicans ban sex in 2010 [sic]? Why did those “government-hating,” “market-worshipping” Republicans “sacrifice all the workers and retirees”? Why mustn’t we despise our corrupt, corporatist governments? Read The Guardian and find out! Well, OK, just read one article from that august publication: Glenn Greenwald’s analysis of the Republicans’ greatest difficulty in campaigning against ...
Mises Daily: Friday, December 30, 2011
"The Debacle of Margarine’s Utility" by Morgan A. Brown Government regulators with good intentions trigger massive breakdowns within an economy. We can see some of the more insidious side effects of regulations that seem impartial in appearance by tracing the history of antimargarine laws in the United States. "Keynes vs. Say" by Henry Hazlitt Keynes’s "greatest achievement," according to his admirers, was his famous "refutation" of Say’s law.
Paul’s Foreign Policy Focus
One doesn’t have to agree with all of Ron Paul’s libertarian views to admire his principled anti-interventionism and opposition to America’s eternal wars: clearly his foreign policy views intersect at the point where character meets ideology. In this interview with USA Today, he responds to the ever popular if-only-Paul-would-moderate-his-’isolationism’ meme: “His poll status has attracted fire from his Republican opponents, ...
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