Sandy Springs, Georgia may look like any other town in America. It has parks, roads, and beautiful places to live. But there's one thing that...
I realised that I am getting sick of people using the word "populist" ("populism"). It is frequently trotted out in reference to things like...
WARNING - This is an extremely dry topic and definitely won't be for most people's tastes 250 years ago (5 Jan 1767) the famous J.B. Say was...
Gets funnier as it goes on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsI8KzFh3w
This is a simple example to show how the oft bleated 'wealth inequality' headline ignores some basic facts of life. First: Age. Age has a large...
As there is significant confusion or misrepresentation among some members of the forum, I thought it useful to have a thread that addresses the...
In the AFR: To my fellow mature Australians, I'd like to explain something. We are not entitled to an age pension merely because we have paid...
From an interview with Leslie Since I left high-school, I've picked up differing freelance roles which have enabled me to hire some mates to do...
This thread is my own indulgence on the underlying impact of societal institutions on the economy looking through the lens of the health care...
Excerpt from the Introduction of the recently released book of this name. Wages and working conditions in Third World sweatshops are appalling...
Ten reasons why slavery should not be abolished. 1. Slavery is natural. People differ, and we must expect that those who are superior in a...
Because everything comes from the earth, the whole of civilisation as we know it today is based on mining. Without mining, Australians' standard...
With the proposed changes in the latest Budget regarding access to Newstart for the under 30's I thought it is valuable to add a thread discussing...
"French economist Thomas Piketty is the darling of the international Left. His book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that in a free...
Before starting a topic such as this, it is useful to define the terms. Regulation definitions - A law, rule, or other order prescribed by...
1. THE SOVEREIGN CONSUMER The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The...
A centrally directed economy cannot solve the problem of economic calculation, and that without private property, free markets, and freedom of...
There exist, among people of any new political ideology, who support the existence of their "Ideology" Party, two quite different views as to its...
In following the debates over raising the US debt ceiling, I'm struck by the frequent claim that defaulting on public debt is unthinkable because...
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