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Swoop champ
Read more: Swoop champSwoop Champ, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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Freedom
Read more: FreedomFreedom, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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We’re all doomed
Read more: We’re all doomedAs Gordon Brown condemns free markets and therefore by extension freedom itself, I learn of Alistair Darling’s early days as the ‘bearded Trot’ who ‘wanted to nationalise the banks’. Despite having read Boris Johnson’s cheering Have I Got…
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Mises.org – Good and Bad Credit
Read more: Mises.org – Good and Bad CreditFurther food for thought: The problem then is not with the credit market as such but with the fact that the central banks are pushing massive amounts of money and trying to force interest rates artificially lower. This…
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Cameron on the economy in 2.5 minutes
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Skydiving at Lillo
Read more: Skydiving at LilloMark Ryall at Lillo, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. It’s good to be skydiving with my old mate Mark. Five magnificent jumps today: video to follow.
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Mises.org – Economist Henry Hazlitt on the Bailout
Read more: Mises.org – Economist Henry Hazlitt on the BailoutThe argument that the government is somehow pumping new capital into the market is absurd. Government is actually borrowing the money from the capital markets that it is in turn injecting into the capital markets. There is no…
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Telegraph – “ECB goes nuclear as EU leaders plan to ‘civilise’ capitalism”
Read more: Telegraph – “ECB goes nuclear as EU leaders plan to ‘civilise’ capitalism”“The ECB is doing whatever it takes to unclog the interbank market,” said Gilles Moec, from Bank of America, who described the move as “spectacular” volte-face and a belated recognition that the credit crisis is deadly serious. The…
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Snow Patrol!
Read more: Snow Patrol!Don’t let “Take back the city” fool you: Snow Patrol deserve their iTunes genre of “Alternative”. An acquired taste?