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Welcome to the Third World, Part 10: Students Become Strippers
Poverty – or its prospect – sometimes leads one to make surprising choices. Here’s a truly disturbing example, from London’s Independent: Students and the sex industry: Empowering or the last resort of the debt-ridden? With unemployment levels soaring across Britain, job prospects for graduates have never looked so bleak. But one sector proving resilient, and ...
Ron Paul: Real Unemployment Is at 22.8%
Ron Paul Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed the numbers meant we are surely on the road to economic recovery, ...
As United States and Western nations pull out, China seeks role in Afghanistan
Chinese Armed Policemen in Afghanistan. Image: china-defense-mashup.com Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai will hold talks during a global summit in Beijing this week. MSNBC | Jun 3, 2012 BEIJING — China and Afghanistan will sign … Continue reading →
DARPA Director Goes to Google But Probes into ‘Irregularities’ Continue
Dugan worked for DARPA in the 1990s, returned to the private sector and formed RedX, came back to head DARPA, and is now in the private sector again. “That’s something we see quite a bit in the Pentagon, but it’s … Continue reading →
Iran and the High Cost of Lunch
The imposition of ever stricter sanctions on Iran over its civilian nuclear program has already spilled over in a big way against Iran’s private economy, though it has largely spared the public sector that it supposedly targets. But we can add another side effect to the US and European sanctions: a spike in the price ...
Obama is Making Ordinary Iranians Suffer So He Can Get Reelected
There was a long list of sanctions already imposed on Iran before this latest round from the U.S., and now that Obama’s diplomats have been successful in pressuring the European Union to ban the import of Iranian crude oil and block trade in other markets like precious metals, the Iranian people are suffering. In this ...
Precious Metals Stocks: Diversify, Seriously
Gold and silver mining stocks will be the dot-coms of the second half of this decade. Yet most of the people who bet on them will lose money because they ignore the first rule of speculative sectors, which is that no matter how well the sector does, most of its constituent companies will fail. This ...
Mises Daily: Monday, January 16, 2012
“In Praise of Homeschools” by Aaron Smith Homeschool parents are not waiting for politicians and technocrats to fix broken systems of education. Unlike their counterparts in the public sector, they are eschewing the status quo and ...
Mises Daily: Monday, January 02, 2012
“Set Culture Free” by Joel Poindexter Intellectual-property advocate Robert Levine declares a short-term victory for the technology sector, and says the losers of the digital age are large media companies. The long-term loser, he s...
Troops to man airports during ‘general strike’
Immigration officials are among those joining the massive public sector strike on Wednesday, raising fears that there could be 12-hour delays at Britain’s airports Photo: REX Ministers are preparing to use troops at border controls when public sector workers stage … Continue reading →
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