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Amid Increased Uncertainty, Syrian Observatory Numbers Even Less Credible
According to reports, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is claiming that more than 300 people – 98 soldiers, 139 civilians and 65 rebels - were killed in Syria on Thursday. This would make it the highest death toll in a single day for the whole of the conflict. As the confusion in Syria seemed ...
Regime Uncertainty and the Non-Recovery
Robert Higgs introduced the concept of “regime uncertainty”, government policies and actions that threaten property rights, in his outstanding paper, Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War to explain the depth and duration of the Great Depression with special attention to the “Roosevelt recession” of 1937 to 1938, a recession within a depression. Commentators have applied the concept to predict or explain why the current recovery would be, or is, a slow jobless recovery. As examples see: http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae13_3_4.pdf http://blog.independent.org/2011/11/06/u-s-economic-recovery-remains-anemic-at-best/ http://blog.independent.org/2011/10/08/important-new-evidence-on-regime-uncertainty/ http://blog.independent.org/2011/09/19/global-regime-uncertainty/ http://blog.mises.org/11716/jobs-investment-and-spending/ Today’s Wall Street Journal, “Regulation for Dummies” (p. A20) ...
Caging the Dogs of War
Anyone who circulates in American society knows full well that many Americans love war and killing. FULL ARTICLE by Robert Higgs Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society” If Men Were Angels Krugman (It’s Aggregate Demand) vs. Higgs (Regime Uncertainty)Related posts:
Work in Progress: A Boy and His Mom
My mom’s secret was that no matter what task she tackled, she worked very fast. FULL ARTICLE by Robert Higgs Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:Krugman (It’s Aggregate Demand) vs. Higgs (Regime Uncertainty) Interview with Robert Higgs The Fed and the Ratchet Effect Related posts:
Public Service Is an Ignoble Calling
It’s difficult to say “Bush School of Government and Public Service” aloud without gagging. FULL ARTICLE by Robert Higgs Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:Ah, that noble calling of public service Krugman (It’s Aggregate Demand) vs. Higgs (Regime Uncertainty) What Credit Crunch? Related posts:
Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery
Slavery existed for thousands of years, in all sorts of societies and all parts of the world. To imagine human social life without it required an extraordinary effort. FULL ARTICLE by Robert Higgs Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:On the Costs of War Regime Uncertainty and Bond Yields Inventive Progress, Part 2 Related posts:
Ah, that noble calling of public service
Robert Higgs kicks up a storm by poking fun of the G.H.W Bush School of Government. Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:Fundamentals Are … Fundamental Krugman (It’s Aggregate Demand) vs. Higgs (Regime Uncertainty) Big Govn’t under George BushRelated posts:
Why This Gigantic “Intelligence” Apparatus?
Why would these hundreds of organizations and contracting companies be willing to take gigantic amounts of the taxpayers’ money when everyone agrees that the money cannot be spent sensibly and that the system already in place cannot function effectively or efficiently to attain its ostensible purpose? FULL ARTICLE by Robert Higgs Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts:Krugman (It’s Aggregate Demand) vs. Higgs (Regime Uncertainty) The Crisis that Wasn’t The Fed and the Ratchet EffectRelated posts:
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