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20
Nov
2009
Inflation Alert

10 hours ago by Mario Rizzo

by Jerry O’Driscoll Yesterday was Cato’s annual monetary conference and Allan Meltzer gave the keynote address. Today at cato.org you can listen to a 7-minute Podcast of an interview with Meltzer summarizing his presentation. He has just completed the last 2 volumes of his history of the Fed. Meltze ...

ThinkMarkets - thinkmarkets.wordpress.com · Rank: 3,064 · 153 references

End The Fed and Other Musings

15 hours ago by Patrick

Image by fangleman via Flickr I thought this picture is appropriate for the subject at hand. It’s also a great way of showcasing different artists’ and photographers’ artwork . I’m not advocating the end of the Fed. We’ll leave that discussion for another time perhaps. However, the Feds don’t seem t ...

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A Flat Tax for Ireland?

19 hours ago by Karl Whelan

When addressing the issue of raising income taxes, two objections tend to come up. The first is that the combined marginal tax rate (including PRSI and levies) is already up to 54% (see page 161 of the Commission on Taxation Report) and this marginal tax rate kicks in at fairly low incomes. Further ...

The Irish Economy - irisheconomy.ie · Rank: 5,720 · 137 references

Counterintuitive thought of the week: this isn’t the worst debt mess since ...

19 hours ago by freethinkingeconomist

I promised, without any reason, not to talk too much about what was said at the Financial Times party. But surely Martin Wolf’s speech doesn’t count? I mean, he was talking to a room full of journalists. And I thought it was a speech worthy of one of his million-click articles, and contained many po ...

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President Obama Leads The Progressive Radical Socialists In Intentionally ...

1 day ago by Raymond

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” ~Thomas Jefferson Glenn Beck-11-19-09-A Glenn Beck-11-19-09-B Glenn Beck-11-19-09-C Glenn Beck-11-19-09-D Glenn Beck-11-19-09-E Glenn Beck 20091118 Part 1/4 Glenn Beck 20091118 ...

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19
Nov
2009
Someone Doesn’t Like Senator Mark Udall’s Autoreply Form Letters

1 day ago by Ben

This was forwarded to me a little while ago. Someone named Kathy from Evergreen apparently (and doubtless with good reason) is not happy with the responsiveness of Congress to her concerns about Obama Care and a rapidly growing and spending federal government. She took a mechanical form letter from ...

Mount Virtus - bendegrow.com · Rank: 14,692 · 106 references

Listen to Colorado Loses’ Podcast Update: AFSCME’s Mass Mail Screwup

1 day ago by Ben

Last Saturday I reported that thousands of Colorado state employees who never signed up to join a union were barraged with membership cards from the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) — one of the union partners in the “Colorado WINS” coalition brought to life by Go ...

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WHAT EASTERN EUROPEAN TIGERS CAN TEACH WESTERN EUROPE

1 day ago by Rok Spruk

In yesterday's edition of WSJ, Johnny Munkhammar and Nima Sanandaji wrote a well-argued dissussion ( link) on how Eastern Europe's advantage in terms of competitive tax rates, low tax burden and sizeable reform efforts in emerging from the crisis offer a great lesson for economic recovery of the Wes ...

Capitalism & Freedom - rspruk.blogspot.com · Rank: 102,816 · 20 references

DANGERS OF U.S FISCAL DEFICIT

1 day ago by Rok Spruk

The Economist has published two great articles on the anomalies of U.S fiscal deficit ( link) ( link). Rok Spruk is a supply-side economist and a libertarian. He (currently) lives in Slovenia where he studies economics and business. His fields of research are economic growth, macroeconomics, interna ...

Capitalism & Freedom - rspruk.blogspot.com · Rank: 102,816 · 20 references

Government Fiscal Year 2009 Deficit – 1.4 billion

1 day ago by joeykrim

Fiscal Year 2009 (Oct 1 st 2008-Oct 1 st 2009) Deficit – 1.4 billion Fiscal Year 2008 Deficit – $450 billion Don’t blame Bush (Republican) or Obama (Democrat) for the large government budget deficit of 2009. Rather, blame them both. Bush was in office when the 2009 fiscal year was planned and for th ...

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