Month: September 2008
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Make-believe economics & business cycles
Economics is not a complicated science. This may not seem obvious to you if you’ve following the news from Washington, where a cabal of politicians, financiers and lobbyists have been spent the last several weeks desperately making a series of increasingly complicated, expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful plans to “save the economy.” As the costs of…
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SEC bans Stock Shorting
In light of the SEC’s decision to ban all short selling, last year’s One Minute Case for Stock Shorting is especially relevant.
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American Fascism versus the pornographer
In 2003 I explained why totalitarian regimes like China are so fiercely opposed to human sexuality: The threat posed by the selfish pursuit of one’s happiness is the driving motivation for authoritarian regimes of all kinds to have joined organized religion in fiercely opposing public acceptance of sexuality as a natural and moral activity. In 2008, advocating and…
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Support Tor: fight Internet censorship
Unless you are utterly ignorant of the outside world, you have heard that the government of China actively monitors and censors its citizen’s access to the Internet. Its tight grip on Internet services is part of an overall policy of brutal suppression of free expression and human rights in China, including organ harvesting, mass murder,…
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A visual guide to the 2008 presidential election
My thanks to Burgess Laughlin and C August for providing this handy visual guide to help me understand the key difference between the candidates: A Visual Guide to the Election