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Mises – Escape from the Depreciating Dollar
Read more: Mises – Escape from the Depreciating DollarThe most important priority right now is dramatic monetary reform. … People should be free to use any money they can get each other to accept. More than that, people should be free to introduce new moneys based…
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Times – Treasury criticised over mortgage plans
Read more: Times – Treasury criticised over mortgage plansThe Treasury has been criticised for a proposal calling for HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to resume lending to homeowners and small businesses “at 2007 levels”. Let’s hope this is a misrepresentation or an…
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Lord Strathclyde: There is no prospect of 42 days passing the House of Lords today
Read more: Lord Strathclyde: There is no prospect of 42 days passing the House of Lords todayLet me at least be clear. There is no prospect of this draconian idea passing the House of Lords today. There is no prospect of the Conservative Party softening its opposition to a proposal for which not a…
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Time to go home, Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki tells Britain
Read more: Time to go home, Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki tells BritainBritish combat forces are no longer needed to maintain security in southern Iraq and should leave the country, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, has told The Times. read more | digg story
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Soros: How to capitalise the banks and save finance
Read more: Soros: How to capitalise the banks and save financeNow that Hank Paulson has recognised that the troubled asset relief programme is best used to recapitalise the banking system, it is important to spell out exactly how it should be done. Since it was not part of…
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Jim Rogers on the crisis and inflation
Read more: Jim Rogers on the crisis and inflationSpectacularly blunt commentary: Jim Rogers founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros.
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Mises.org: Political Power and Economic Ignorance
Read more: Mises.org: Political Power and Economic IgnoranceThere is a sad irony to economic ignorance — on top of its disastrous effects. Let’s call it the Iron Law of Economic Ignorance: the value of economic knowledge increases with its scarcity. That is, economic knowledge gets…
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Peter Oborne: Should the State or free choice rule our lives?
Read more: Peter Oborne: Should the State or free choice rule our lives?It’s not often I refer to the Daily Mail, but this is an astute summary of the thinking that has lead from the teaching of Jesus to the subversion of individual free will by Marx and Freud. Oborne…
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Fly me to the moon
Read more: Fly me to the moonIMG_1982, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. IMG_1988, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.