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The Government Should Not Invest in Renewable Energy

August 19, 2008

(Disclaimer: the government should not invest in anything.)
Some people think that we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil. To this end, they propose that we produce our own oil, or that we subsidize encourage the domestic production of some other energy source.My friend e-mailed me a few weeks ago, asking for my […]

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The Essence of Socialism

August 13, 2008

Note: This is a slightly updated post which originally appeared on the anniversary of the completion of the Berlin Wall. In memory of the first refugee slain attempting to cross over it, one 18-year old German laborer named Peter Fechter. Mr. Fechter would be 64 if he hadn’t been gunned down 45 years ago, Sunday.
13.8.2007
Remember […]

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The Involuntary Contract: Comments # 22

July 24, 2008

It’s Not Voluntary, And It’s Not a Contract shot up to #1 in terms of traffic to my site; in less than 24 hours it drove more than 300 page views. I have no idea what the referral source(s) for those are, but that’s huge.
There are a lot of comments:
csun said,
I rent my […]

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Unfree Markets, and Economic Collapse

January 25, 2008

I’ve long maintained that we don’t have a “free market.” Not in the U.S., not elsewhere. Sure, some markets are comparatively “freer” than others, but the least-bad alternative is not necessarily good. Well, when mainstream financial publications like FT start denouncing the rise of corporatism…

How can it be that Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, […]

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