Paul Volcker: “Not an Ordinary Recession”
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/paul-volcker/ Paul Volcker recently gave a speech that has gotten a lot of replay action on the blogosphere. I believe most are saying that Volcker is calling for a...
View Article“The Tale of the Slave”
http://www.duke.edu/web/p…aleofslave.html Via Patri comes Nozick’s “The Tale of the Slave,” a thought experiment that illustrates how a system of democracy is little more than enslavement to a faceless...
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Stop “FHA Subprime”– Defeat HR 600 and SFDPA
http://ml-implode.com/sfdpacampaign.html While flying the flag of “helping” would-be homebuyers in lower income brackets, “seller funded downpayment assistance” inflates the home price via “laundering”...
View Article“Making money is that easy . . . You make it yourself, with your friends, as...
http://hplusmagazine.com/…on/2009-spring/ An interesting, brief article in H+ magazine titled Hacking the Economy by Douglas Rushkoff speaks to times long gone — centuries ago when barter was the...
View ArticleYour home garden may soon come under Federal Regulation
http://blog.friendseat.co…es-small-farms/ Looks like big business is making another power grab via lobbying government officials to pass onerous laws that would shut down smaller businesses, and may be...
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President Chuck Norris, of Sovereign Texas?
http://www.worldnetdaily….ew&pageId=91103 photo credit: cloune Now this is just all sorts of awesomeness not because it is likely to happen (I’m skeptical), but because it puts pressure on the Feds...
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Freedom is Found at the Frontier
photo credit: patrissimo I’ve heard it said that the success of the creation of the United States was due in part to the American society being founded on a frontier. Of course the Native Americans...
View ArticlePatri Friedman on Folk Activism
http://www.cato-unbound.o…-folk-activism/ Unfortunately I can’t add much in the way of comments or thoughts on Patri Friedman’s article titled Beyond Folk Activism published on Cato Unbound yesterday....
View ArticlePeter Thiel responds to Folk Activism
Peter Thiel, the founder of Paypal and the major donor behind Seasteading, responds to Patri Friedman’s article on “Folk Activism” (See here). It’s always reassuring to find yourself in good company,...
View ArticleJoel Salatin’s “Everything I want to do is illegal”
http://www.mindfully.org/…legal1esp03.htm Richard Nikoley pointed me to this excellent essay by Polyface Farm’s Joel Salatin. It is one of the best things I’ve read in quite some time — a complete...
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