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This Blog’s reading level
Read more: This Blog’s reading levelDoh! Time to dumb down?
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Bail out blogosphere round up
Read more: Bail out blogosphere round upThe root cause of the credit crunch (video) Where’s an icepick when you need one? The Big Lie This Morning Labour to Implement 1983 Manifesto Pledges So, They’ve Finally Achieved Their 1983 Election Manifesto Exclusive to Rob’s Blog: Gordon…
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Europe’s bank bail-outs: Beggar thy neighbour
Read more: Europe’s bank bail-outs: Beggar thy neighbourExpecting an announcement from the Chancellor in the morning, I found this: While governments on mainland Europe were trying to save their banks, Iceland was trying to save the country after it had overextended itself trying to bail-out…
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The magic of Jamie’s Ministry of Food
Read more: The magic of Jamie’s Ministry of FoodJamie sets out to transform British eating: Can’t cook? Start with the basics. Pick a recipe. Pass it on. Just watching the show: the look on people’s faces is fantastic when they find they can cook a good…
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“If men were like ants”
Read more: “If men were like ants”From Rothbard’s “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor”: If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, interchangeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their…
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Mises.org: Financial Crisis and Recession
Read more: Mises.org: Financial Crisis and RecessionVia mises.org, from an article by the brilliant Jesús Huerta de Soto: The artificial expansion of credit and money is never more than a short-term solution, and often not even that. In fact, today there is no doubt…
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The Guardian on society: It’s broken. So let’s fix it
Read more: The Guardian on society: It’s broken. So let’s fix itA Guardian journalist supports David Cameron: A few months ago I might have disagreed with [Cameron]; I might have argued that he was quite simply scaremongering, that the country is at heart, just as Gordon Brown has said,…
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Long hours and stress drive lawyers to drink and drugs
Read more: Long hours and stress drive lawyers to drink and drugsThe survey, by the magazine Legal Business, also says that there is evidence of “cocaine clubs” in law firms’ basements and of partner-led games of poker and taking cocaine with clients. But it also finds that law firms…