Tim Swanson Archives
Updating Your Holiday Card Address Book
Actually, the truth of the matter is other countries finance US debt and would themselves be richer if they simply stopped buying US treasuries or pegging their currencies to the USD. This in turn would force domestic interest rates across the board to increase and as a result, Americans would have to cut consumption and save substantially more than they do now. And in the long-run this could make the US as a whole, rich again (or at least not broke).
Right now consumption is being funded by artificially cheap credit which is financed in large part by foreign banks, sovereign wealth funds and the FOMC. Still the same, a provocative illustration, especially when one realizes that three decades ago, the US was the largest creditor nation and today is the largest debtor nation. Quite a swing.
And for those that are interested, the flags on the sleeve represent Japan, the PRC and Russia, who currently hold more than $1.1 trillion of US treasury securities. Be sure to also thank them for buying toxic paper, like MBSs from FRE and FNM, to prop up your home equity.
See also: Live It Up, the Dollar is Dead?
China: turning the corner
In the late '50s through early '70s it was fashionable for the literati to extol the virtues of collective farming and various re-education efforts in Maoist China. Down with the capitalist bourgeoisie, up with the unionized proletariat.
Over the past three decades, with a complete reversal of economic policy, these same pundits now abhor at the "uneven" growth in the Chinese economy. For instance, apparently not everyone in China has the financial ability to own a car or flat screen TV. According to some, this is awful!
The funny thing is (or really sad) is that none of this economic growth could have occurred without the very free-markets they railed against years before. Thus, again, this illustrates the absurdity of egalitarianism: where everyone can and must suffer equally.
For more, see my latest piece: The Peaceful Rise of China. You may also be interested in Rothbard's: "Egalitarianism, a Revolt Against Nature."
Jim Rogers is not a happy camper
Apropos Lew's piece from today is a new Bloomberg interview of Jim Rogers -- his reaction to the Fannie and Freddie bailout (video).
For regular Mises.org readers, his statements will not come as a surprise. However, he makes some interesting predictions as to where the next bailouts and regulations could take place in the near future -- including commodities.
And like the BSC handout earlier this year, this amounts to little more than socializing losses for Big Business. It's a war on dollarized assets and on taxpayers.
The People's Republic of Capitalism
July 9, 2008 11:28 AM
| Comments (16)
How Long Does a Free-Trade Agreement Need to Be?
July 2, 2008 7:43 AM
| Comments (21)
De Gaulle the gold bug
June 25, 2008 5:21 AM
| Comments (1)
Appreciating 20% in three years: RMB versus USD
June 24, 2008 6:51 AM
| Comments (1)
Behind the Firefox 3 numbers for Iraq
June 18, 2008 11:18 AM
| Comments (18)
Joe Salerno on Line 1
June 1, 2008 11:23 PM
| Comments (0)
Metals are fairly difficult to print
May 22, 2008 11:26 PM
| Comments (8)
Come to Finland, because we need new blood to tax
May 15, 2008 10:49 AM
| Comments (42)
Interview with Peter Schiff
April 21, 2008 10:10 AM
| Comments (26)
Are Tornados Good For Growth?
April 14, 2008 4:44 AM
| Comments (9)
Petrodollars and Inflation
April 10, 2008 8:23 AM
| Comments (6)
Should you fear Sovereign Wealth Funds?
March 13, 2008 11:58 AM
| Comments (11)
What are you investing in?
March 12, 2008 10:00 PM
| Comments (33)
At the End of Each Month, Just Stand on Your Roof
March 12, 2008 11:22 AM
| Comments (7)
What Incentive Do They Have To Perform Well?
March 11, 2008 10:05 AM
| Comments (0)
Sovereign Wealth Messiahs
March 11, 2008 7:44 AM
| Comments (8)
Penalized for Producing
March 8, 2008 8:43 PM
| Comments (4)
No Silver in the Silver Lining
February 28, 2008 7:39 AM
| Comments (5)
To Nationalize or Not to Nationalize
February 22, 2008 3:59 AM
| Comments (2)
Max out your credit cards
February 20, 2008 5:08 AM
| Comments (13)
Reworded Broadband Plan Resold As New and Improved
February 1, 2008 12:07 PM
| Comments (0)
Could They Survive Without University Support?
January 31, 2008 4:08 AM
| Comments (4)
Too sexy for mundane tasks
January 29, 2008 9:43 PM
| Comments (4)
Where does most of that money go?
January 27, 2008 12:41 AM
| Comments (22)
Meet the new Chavez, same as the old one
January 12, 2008 2:50 AM
| Comments (6)
Redefine success with other metrics
January 12, 2008 2:37 AM
| Comments (15)
2007: Year in Review
January 3, 2008 3:12 AM
| Comments (4)
The Spectrum Swindle
December 26, 2007 8:06 AM
| Comments (23)
Against a National Broadband Policy
December 19, 2007 8:13 AM
| Comments (11)
Be sure to thank NASA for saving your life
November 29, 2007 6:24 AM
| Comments (13)
Heroic Belgian Stalemate
November 28, 2007 11:11 AM
| Comments (7)
Mugabenomics in action
November 22, 2007 4:49 AM
| Comments (3)
Monuments for Megalomaniacs
November 22, 2007 3:47 AM
| Comments (5)
By reproducing this post you could be violating copyright law
November 20, 2007 5:09 AM
| Comments (3)
Using the State to Benefit Your Enterprise
November 16, 2007 9:47 AM
| Comments (0)
If European monochromists get it...
November 13, 2007 4:56 AM
| Comments (6)
"If I were Bernanke I would abolish the Fed and resign"
November 3, 2007 12:30 AM
| Comments (20)
A History of Occupations
November 1, 2007 5:33 AM
| Comments (15)
You Can't Do This, But We Can
October 29, 2007 12:48 AM
| Comments (11)
Doing What They Do Best
October 28, 2007 4:02 AM
| Comments (4)
Operation Bernhard and Counterfeiters
October 21, 2007 9:27 AM
| Comments (4)
If the airline industry was socialized, would you still fly?
October 17, 2007 8:15 AM
| Comments (9)
The Most Non-prolific Advocate of Peace
October 14, 2007 10:01 AM
| Comments (20)
How about banning tanks, jet fighters and submarines?
October 12, 2007 5:35 AM
| Comments (40)
What do spam and the mafia have in common?
October 11, 2007 9:56 AM
| Comments (62)
Who benefits from inflation?
October 10, 2007 10:26 AM
| Comments (18)
Car mechanics should do hard time for their heinous crime
October 8, 2007 11:59 AM
| Comments (25)
A World Without NASA
October 4, 2007 4:24 AM
| Comments (3)
Bailing out the gate-keepers
September 30, 2007 9:11 AM
| Comments (7)
Are Booms and Busts a Sign of the Singularity?
September 28, 2007 5:02 AM
| Comments (7)
Copyrighting Book Prices
September 20, 2007 2:14 AM
| Comments (13)
For Whom the Bandwidth Tolls
September 17, 2007 12:47 PM
| Comments (3)
Why Does Socialism Cause Pollution?
September 16, 2007 10:19 AM
| Comments (1)
What's Wrong With Blocking Ads?
September 15, 2007 3:57 AM
| Comments (56)
Should we go back to a "simpler" Stone Age?
September 13, 2007 2:04 AM
| Comments (5)
Does the DoJ read Mises.org?
September 7, 2007 3:00 AM
| Comments (3)
A Walk Down Memory Lane
September 6, 2007 11:47 PM
| Comments (0)
Breaking Bad Habits A Century Later
September 3, 2007 1:14 PM
| Comments (4)
The Fed: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
September 3, 2007 4:54 AM
| Comments (2)
Who owns the copyright to cut-up jeans or low-rise pants?
August 30, 2007 7:40 AM
| Comments (9)
Is the Open Source Movement Libertarian?
August 24, 2007 4:54 AM
| Comments (27)
Quote of the Day: Private Schools in Emerging Markets
August 22, 2007 10:46 PM
| Comments (8)
Asian Tiger or Asian Kitten?
August 21, 2007 9:08 AM
| Comments (3)
Cowabunga with Copowi?
August 20, 2007 2:56 AM
| Comments (3)
Cloning Products in the Wild Wild East
August 11, 2007 4:02 AM
| Comments (0)
Inventor versus innovator
July 23, 2007 12:26 AM
| Comments (8)
Will Elevator Owners be Targeted Next?
July 9, 2007 5:44 AM
| Comments (1)
How to Whitewash Aggression
July 3, 2007 10:15 AM
| Comments (5)
Just Print the Necessary Funds
June 18, 2007 12:48 PM
| Comments (3)
Cui Bono: Appraisal Edition
April 16, 2007 5:20 PM
| Comments (6)
Squeezing Utils out of the Final Frontier
April 11, 2007 2:42 PM
| Comments (9)
The Economics of Ski Resorts
March 20, 2007 11:49 PM
| Comments (2)
Crowdsourcing and Open-Source Software
February 15, 2007 12:38 PM
| Comments (1)
Cause And Effect: DMCA Edition
February 12, 2007 8:54 PM
| Comments (7)
Bend it like Bernanke
February 4, 2007 12:01 AM
| Comments (11)
Dirty SOX
January 18, 2007 6:14 PM
| Comments (3)
Moonshine Manufacturing for the Masses
January 10, 2007 6:24 PM
| Comments (2)
Bob Metcalfe Takes On The State
December 19, 2006 5:16 PM
| Comments (0)
No matter which politician wins, we lose
November 8, 2006 9:48 PM
| Comments (1)
Where are the picket lines around HP headquarters?
November 6, 2006 11:34 AM
| Comments (4)
Cannibalizing Resources You Don't Own, To "Protect" People You Don't Own
October 28, 2006 11:46 AM
| Comments (1)
It is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying opposing things
October 25, 2006 7:46 PM
| Comments (3)
The State sells what it does not own
October 22, 2006 10:26 PM
| Comments (2)
Socializing With Movementarians
October 5, 2006 5:36 PM
| Comments (4)
Does One Price Fit All? Politics, Buffets, and Scarcity
October 4, 2006 8:08 PM
| Comments (12)
Debt, Artificial Interest Rates, and the Federal Reserve
September 24, 2006 10:40 AM
| Comments (6)
Microsoft Can't Get No Respect
September 22, 2006 12:16 AM
| Comments (3)
The battle over rapid replication is about to begin
September 19, 2006 10:23 PM
| Comments (6)
New 2007 Edition of the Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollar Go
September 19, 2006 12:32 AM
| Comments (11)
Myths of NASA: Inventions They Never Invented
September 11, 2006 1:04 PM
| Comments (9)
What goes around, comes around
September 7, 2006 4:50 PM
| Comments (0)
Intellectual Property, the Broadcaster, and Gatekeepers
September 5, 2006 4:14 PM
| Comments (15)
How much does it cost to buy your allegiance?
August 29, 2006 6:48 PM
| Comments (2)
Who Owns The Alphabet And Its Derivatives?
August 22, 2006 4:09 PM
| Comments (2)
Do you have a license to work X amount of hours?
August 19, 2006 11:48 AM
| Comments (18)
Cui bono: donation edition
August 15, 2006 6:23 PM
| Comments (2)
Egalitarianism as a revolt against economic variables
August 13, 2006 2:49 PM
| Comments (8)
Blogs, Gatekeepers, and Public Relations
August 8, 2006 8:41 PM
| Comments (0)
Calculating the Value of Institutions of Higher Education
August 6, 2006 11:45 PM
| Comments (5)
Stealing the zeitgeist
August 4, 2006 5:02 PM
| Comments (2)
Fantasy Sports Leagues are to Gambling as Powerball is to...
August 2, 2006 6:14 PM
| Comments (3)
If Geeks Can Get It, Why Can't...: Insurance and Risk Edition
July 29, 2006 6:27 PM
| Comments (2)
But who would work for such exploitably low wages?
July 27, 2006 11:52 PM
| Comments (11)
Jim Rogers sells the farm and heads to the Far East
July 26, 2006 8:22 PM
| Comments (13)
State-sponsored "Natural Monopoly" at Work
July 21, 2006 12:39 PM
| Comments (5)
Britons To Tax Lovely Filth
July 21, 2006 12:47 AM
| Comments (6)
Cui bono: penny edition
July 19, 2006 12:20 PM
| Comments (10)
Dog the Bounty Hunter versus Chief Wiggum
July 18, 2006 12:25 PM
| Comments (6)
What physical property was stolen?
July 15, 2006 12:20 PM
| Comments (22)
Environmentalists seek to protect dying species: the Gatekeeper
July 9, 2006 12:23 PM
| Comments (1)
Posner Knocks Buffett's Recent Charitable Contribution
July 7, 2006 11:33 AM
| Comments (0)
But charging different prices is discrimination!
July 7, 2006 1:36 AM
| Comments (0)
Separation of Sport and State
July 5, 2006 11:21 AM
| Comments (8)
Minimum wage, Jon Stewart, and Cars
June 29, 2006 11:12 AM
| Comments (18)
The consensual trading of knock-offs
June 19, 2006 11:05 AM
| Comments (1)
Suing Your Fans, Destroying Viral Marketing
June 14, 2006 9:04 PM
| Comments (2)
What To Think About Reregulation?
June 12, 2006 11:06 AM
| Comments (4)
Network Nationalization: Net Neutrality In Action
June 9, 2006 12:05 PM
| Comments (10)
The DMCA, The Most Creative Solution To Preventing Creativity
June 5, 2006 6:31 PM
| Comments (9)
Buying into the artificially scarce spectrum monopoly
June 3, 2006 1:48 PM
| Comments (10)
Without IP who will invent? How about everybody.
May 31, 2006 8:22 PM
| Comments (8)
Mr. Rogers Goes to Washington
May 29, 2006 8:37 PM
| Comments (9)
Phone Tax Finally Sunsetted... After 108 Years
May 25, 2006 5:05 PM
| Comments (5)
Pollution and Property Rights in Hong Kong
May 23, 2006 4:59 PM
| Comments (2)
Temples for the State
May 21, 2006 2:53 PM
| Comments (2)
If the MLB owns batting statistics, the Weather Channel owns daily temperatures
May 19, 2006 2:27 PM
| Comments (1)
Michael Milken's Second Act
May 18, 2006 2:10 PM
| Comments (5)
Terminating Net Neutrality
May 17, 2006 2:10 PM
| Comments (34)
Evidence #3217 Showing How Greenies Hate Humans
May 15, 2006 2:37 PM
| Comments (3)
World Anti-Doping Agency to Ban Shaving, Training
May 12, 2006 1:43 PM
| Comments (7)
Pro-Union PSA from the 1980s
May 10, 2006 1:31 AM
| Comments (11)
Trademark Law, Innovation and Team Spirit
May 8, 2006 5:36 PM
| Comments (4)
Rectifying the Past Injustice of State Monopolies
May 4, 2006 4:32 PM
| Comments (7)
Who Owns the Internet?
May 4, 2006 8:44 AM
| Comments (10)
Fast Times At Yiwu High
May 2, 2006 2:34 PM
| Comments (5)
Elvis Impersonation Must Be Licensed
April 25, 2006 1:23 PM
| Comments (6)
A Kindler, Gentler DMCA
April 24, 2006 4:48 PM
| Comments (7)
Blogs as a marketing tool for economic departments
April 22, 2006 1:00 PM
| Comments (1)
Tabula Rasa: Society Edition
April 19, 2006 10:32 AM
| Comments (72)
Protectionism, China and Caterpillars
April 17, 2006 3:01 PM
| Comments (7)
Did I just catch a niner with your order of fries?
April 11, 2006 9:19 PM
| Comments (15)
Success breeds resentment: Walmart edition
April 11, 2006 4:30 PM
| Comments (4)
Were their protesting conditions up to Union specs?
April 10, 2006 11:39 PM
| Comments (2)
If you build it, they will come: Personal MBA edition
April 7, 2006 11:16 PM
| Comments (2)
An ounce of bacon for $600
April 7, 2006 10:26 PM
| Comments (2)
Greenspan Says The Darndest Things
April 4, 2006 8:34 PM
| Comments (0)
Quote of the day: accreditation cartelism
April 2, 2006 9:37 PM
| Comments (5)
A new month and a new page to turn
April 1, 2006 11:03 AM
| Comments (5)
When organs are outlawed only outlaws will have organs
March 29, 2006 9:08 PM
| Comments (3)
Our Basket Is Bigger Than Yours
March 20, 2006 10:08 PM
| Comments (6)
Patenting The Method For Posting To A Blog
March 19, 2006 11:58 AM
| Comments (1)
Visual Illustration of Tax Dollar Uses By The State
March 16, 2006 11:46 PM
| Comments (6)
If You Can Get Rid Of Your Car Insurance Why Not Your Country Too?
March 14, 2006 6:49 PM
| Comments (5)
We Must Lease A Car Or The Terrorists Win
March 14, 2006 10:31 AM
| Comments (3)
Gambling On The WWW
March 12, 2006 11:12 PM
| Comments (6)
Book Review: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
March 12, 2006 11:18 AM
| Comments (5)
Patent Holder: 1, Innovator: 0
March 3, 2006 4:48 PM
| Comments (43)
Artificial Scarcity: Radio Frequency Edition
February 26, 2006 4:12 PM
| Comments (2)
How To Make A Mountain Out Of A Mole Hill
February 22, 2006 7:04 PM
| Comments (9)
Are All Heads Of State This Incompetent?
February 15, 2006 4:33 PM
| Comments (4)
This Note Is Legal Tender Because We Say It Is
February 14, 2006 10:10 AM
| Comments (4)
The Cement Was Probably Made In China Too
February 7, 2006 4:23 PM
| Comments (11)
An Anarchistic Oasis In The Middle Of The Desert
February 1, 2006 7:16 PM
| Comments (25)
Why go to class when you can get the same lecture in podcast form?
January 31, 2006 9:12 PM
| Comments (6)
Will the University Survive?
January 25, 2006 7:33 AM
| Comments (46)
Tickling Your Globalization Funny Bone
January 18, 2006 4:59 PM
| Comments (4)
Why Johnny Can't Read
January 14, 2006 4:10 PM
| Comments (28)
I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again
January 10, 2006 5:01 PM
| Comments (13)
Lesson Of The Day: If You Innovate, We Will Sue You
December 27, 2005 6:50 PM
| Comments (1)
Department Of Breathable Air To Auction Off More Oxygen
December 19, 2005 12:17 PM
| Comments (10)
A Chicken In Every Pot And A Minting Press On Every Desk
December 12, 2005 7:56 PM
| Comments (13)
Printing Money Is Only Legal When We Do It: Hasbro Edition
December 4, 2005 12:54 PM
| Comments (7)
The Baptists Are The Bootleggers: FCC Edition
November 30, 2005 4:15 PM
| Comments (3)
Poking Fun Of Statism: The Onion Edition
November 29, 2005 10:30 PM
| Comments (2)
Progressive Is As Progressive Does: Democide Up, Profits Down
November 28, 2005 1:40 PM
| Comments (5)
The Terrible P-Word: The Cat Is Out Of The Hat
November 27, 2005 12:40 PM
| Comments (4)
One Man's Game Is Another Puritan's Vice
November 25, 2005 3:26 PM
| Comments (7)
Learncasting: Educational Podcasts Por Gratis
November 22, 2005 5:32 PM
| Comments (2)
Brazilian prisoners granted furloughs if they donate their organs
November 10, 2005 3:48 PM
| Comments (0)
No More Information Piracy: Say Goodbye to Direct Quotes, Footnotes and Book Reviews
November 8, 2005 5:32 PM
| Comments (3)
Stop Google Print, For The Children
November 7, 2005 11:25 AM
| Comments (1)
Congress Throwing Rocks At New Things: Google Edition
November 3, 2005 7:06 PM
| Comments (6)
The Bowl Championship Series: A Case Against Subjectively Aggregated Statistics
November 2, 2005 9:33 AM
| Comments (7)
Simon Says You Do Not Own Your Organs
October 22, 2005 10:01 PM
| Comments (15)
Investigation Results: Government Very Effecient At Being Ineffecient
October 20, 2005 4:06 PM
| Comments (1)
If You Build It, Will They Come?
October 19, 2005 8:49 PM
| Comments (0)
You Can Only Work When We Say You Can: Blue Law Edition
October 18, 2005 12:32 PM
| Comments (1)
Only We Are Allowed To Practice Price Fixing: Samsung Edition
October 14, 2005 9:43 PM
| Comments (2)
Never Save, Always Consume - Invest Today, Not Tomorrow
October 10, 2005 12:41 PM
| Comments (3)
What Is A College Ranking?
October 7, 2005 9:26 PM
| Comments (20)
Surprise: National Stereotypes Unscientific
October 6, 2005 5:27 PM
| Comments (11)
Politicians Are Allergic To Your Guns
October 4, 2005 3:38 PM
| Comments (57)
Biting The Hand That Feeds You: Google Tax Edition
October 2, 2005 11:42 AM
| Comments (0)
FEMA and Congress: The Peter Principle in Politics
September 28, 2005 1:00 PM
| Comments (5)
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
September 25, 2005 1:07 PM
| Comments (2)
Patently Absurd
September 13, 2005 7:05 PM
| Comments (0)
Reality Check: Anarcho-capitalism in the NYT
September 8, 2005 9:12 PM
| Comments (1)
Power Corrupts And All That Jazz
September 2, 2005 9:25 AM
| Comments (2)
Things That Do Not Mix: Cheap Brassieres And Politicians
August 26, 2005 7:26 PM
| Comments (0)
It Is Only Okay For Us To Steal Your Stuff, Not Vice Versa
August 25, 2005 1:09 PM
| Comments (6)
Sarbanes-Oxley: Welfare For Accountants
August 23, 2005 1:55 PM
| Comments (3)
Charity: there is no correlation between wealth and productivity
August 18, 2005 3:29 PM
| Comments (9)
The Line Between Working and Bumming
August 11, 2005 5:22 PM
| Comments (15)
The Evaporation of the FCC
August 11, 2005 4:35 AM
| Comments (16)
I Did Not Want That Part Of My Income Anyways: NASA Edition
August 9, 2005 6:42 PM
| Comments (4)
Putting The Lemon Back Into Lemonade
August 3, 2005 11:03 PM
| Comments (2)
Fermented metrics
July 23, 2005 9:19 PM
| Comments (5)
Digital Video Killed The Analog Star
July 13, 2005 11:50 AM
| Comments (8)
A Kindler, Gentler Majoritarianism
July 12, 2005 5:44 PM
| Comments (0)
When In Doubt, Throw Lots Of Money At The Problem
July 4, 2005 1:08 AM
| Comments (2)
Who Are You Going To Call? Force Specialists!
June 24, 2005 11:00 AM
| Comments (31)
87% of statistics are made up
June 15, 2005 2:21 PM
| Comments (2)
Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
June 7, 2005 4:16 PM
| Comments (2)
Oddly enough: State-controlled information not always reliable
June 5, 2005 12:03 AM
| Comments (3)
The Market And Podcasting
May 26, 2005 4:49 PM
| Comments (0)
Protectionism Creates Jobs, Promotes Free-Enterprise And Can-do Spirit
May 22, 2005 6:13 PM
| Comments (4)
German Labor Unions Suffer From Workaphobia
May 19, 2005 9:47 PM
| Comments (12)
Free Trade For Some Of Us Not You
May 18, 2005 5:02 PM
| Comments (10)
FAA Discovers Semantic Web And Language
May 14, 2005 2:33 PM
| Comments (0)
The University As A Firm: Specialization And Sub-contracting
April 27, 2005 6:21 PM
| Comments (2)
Does Dell Create World Peace?
April 21, 2005 6:07 PM
| Comments (42)
Finally Getting That Riff Raff Off The Streets
April 20, 2005 9:24 PM
| Comments (10)
This Post Is Rated G For Gesundheit
April 19, 2005 10:23 PM
| Comments (3)
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
April 18, 2005 1:23 PM
| Comments (4)
If I Were A Betting Man, I'd Bet On Inflation
April 13, 2005 1:35 PM
| Comments (2)
Markets in Information
April 12, 2005 9:25 PM
| Comments (0)
Candlestick Petition For More Day And Less Night
April 8, 2005 1:01 PM
| Comments (12)
The France Romance: Price Floors
March 22, 2005 5:20 PM
| Comments (1)
Harrison Bergeron Meets The Fashion Police
March 19, 2005 11:06 PM
| Comments (12)
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
March 18, 2005 2:26 PM
| Comments (6)
Skype: Gillette's Razor and Blade Business Model Telephonized
March 17, 2005 8:20 PM
| Comments (10)
Norwegian DNA Now At Wholesale Prices
March 15, 2005 7:22 PM
| Comments (21)
Austrians Say The Darndest Things
March 13, 2005 12:11 AM
| Comments (18)
Internetting The Market
March 12, 2005 11:42 PM
| Comments (0)
Due Diligence: Legislature Edition
March 11, 2005 4:54 PM
| Comments (4)
Is The Truth Stranger Than Fiction?
March 11, 2005 4:25 PM
| Comments (1)
But This Is A Kindler, Gentler Censorship
March 3, 2005 12:25 PM
| Comments (2)
It Is Only Your Money After We Get Our Cut First
March 1, 2005 9:47 PM
| Comments (6)
Baby Welfare Stamps: Social Security Edition
February 28, 2005 1:00 PM
| Comments (7)
US Postal Service Shredding Christmas Mail
February 25, 2005 2:11 PM
| Comments (2)
Markets In Mistakes
February 23, 2005 12:16 PM
| Comments (0)
The Virtual, Scripted Bourgeois
February 22, 2005 3:26 PM
| Comments (1)
Heroic Egalitarian Tax Levies Loopholers
February 20, 2005 2:02 PM
| Comments (1)
Party Likes It's 1997
February 16, 2005 12:14 PM
| Comments (5)
A Midwestern Brain Drain
February 14, 2005 1:28 PM
| Comments (17)
Specialization: Cupid Edition
February 11, 2005 2:53 PM
| Comments (0)
Building A Better Mouse Trap: Chinese Edition
February 8, 2005 5:27 PM
| Comments (7)
Self-correcting Market Measures: Fiber Optic Edition
February 1, 2005 1:30 PM
| Comments (3)
One cup of Jingoism, two cups of Protectionism and a dash of Bravado
January 29, 2005 3:26 PM
| Comments (5)
Bribery, Blackmail and Chutzpah by any other name
January 27, 2005 5:21 PM
| Comments (3)
How To Waste Gobs Of Resources: NASA Edition
January 21, 2005 3:00 PM
| Comments (2)
Edumacation: We Don't Want None
January 16, 2005 5:43 PM
| Comments (8)
Putting The Straw Back Into Straw Man
January 15, 2005 1:28 PM
| Comments (15)
Surely Without Patents No One Will Invent Widgets
January 12, 2005 3:05 PM
| Comments (4)
Bill Gates: Anti-IP Movement Is Communist
January 6, 2005 3:10 PM
| Comments (36)
Conivingly Stealing Radio Waves, There Oughta Be A Law
January 5, 2005 6:30 PM
| Comments (9)
Heroic iPod Helps Doctors Save Lives
January 3, 2005 1:27 AM
| Comments (8)
New Years Resolution: Outsource Management
January 2, 2005 3:39 PM
| Comments (0)
Adventures In Gift Card Swapping
December 31, 2004 4:47 PM
| Comments (3)
Inflation Is Caused By Too Many Zeros
December 22, 2004 1:37 PM
| Comments (1)
Dude, You're Getting A Dell
December 19, 2004 4:25 PM
| Comments (5)
When Outsourcing Is Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Outsource
November 23, 2004 5:34 PM
| Comments (0)
Nature Meets Doom 3, Succumbs To Discombobulation
November 17, 2004 12:51 PM
| Comments (1)
Menacing Maniacal Merchant Strikes Again
November 11, 2004 9:52 AM
| Comments (6)
SpaceShipOne, GovernmentZero
October 5, 2004 1:39 PM
| Comments (8)
Reality-Satire Blend Yet Again
October 4, 2004 6:07 PM
| Comments (1)
Tragedy of the Commons: Korean Style
August 27, 2004 2:55 PM
| Comments (5)
Mises University: Reduxed and Remixed
August 27, 2004 2:53 AM
| Comments (8)
Heroic Outsourcing Maximizes Time Management
August 24, 2004 4:05 PM
| Comments (10)
Interview with libertarian entrepreneur John Gilmore
August 24, 2004 3:40 AM
| Comments (0)
Help Wanted: Markets Need Not Apply
August 23, 2004 1:23 PM
| Comments (0)
Irony meets Satire, gives birth to Patent
August 22, 2004 6:35 PM
| Comments (4)
Heroic Price Gouging Saves Lives
August 22, 2004 1:15 PM
| Comments (2)
Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance
August 21, 2004 4:59 PM
| Comments (20)
Now On The Auction Block: Ten Lovely Unwed Hertz's
August 14, 2004 3:44 AM
| Comments (7)
Walmart & Unions: Another One Bites The Dust
August 3, 2004 3:02 PM
| Comments (11)
Mises University: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
August 2, 2004 12:53 AM
| Comments (11)
Lost: white-collar job, answers to "Imploymint"; reward if found
July 31, 2004 1:21 PM
| Comments (6)
DRM: We Will Tell Our Customers What They Want
July 28, 2004 11:09 PM
| Comments (15)
How to hack off faithful customers, case #31337
July 25, 2004 10:40 PM
| Comments (10)
Outsourcing Orders: Menacing, Thieving and un-American
July 23, 2004 2:26 PM
| Comments (3)
Young Whippersnappers And Their Newfangledness
July 13, 2004 12:45 PM
| Comments (8)
Extra Extra: Military Spending Postively Impacts Producers of War
May 24, 2004 1:20 AM
| Comments (0)
Online Role Playing Games: Virtual Economies
May 8, 2004 4:41 AM
| Comments (3)
Patenting a method for patenting methods
January 29, 2004 12:13 AM
| Comments (0)
What has SCO done to our GNU/Linux?
January 23, 2004 12:50 AM
| Comments (11)


Recent Comments