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Chickens and US politics 17 hours ago Read More 
I could not resist this: Why did the chicken cross the road? BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that c...
If this is Capitalism then I am a Communist 17 hours ago Read More
What caused the economic crises? "Greedy bankers" says some people. There is certainly a lot of greed about. For example, the people who trampled a part time Security Guard to death at a Walmart on...
Capitalists must get off their knees 17 hours ago Read More
Iain Martin is rapidly becoming one of my favourite columnists. This article explains why. A recent book which looks at tensions between free markets and the short-term interests of incumbent busin...
The Swiss approach to drugs 17 hours ago Read More
I have just returned from a short business trip to Geneva in Switzerland and apart from the usual chatter about the disasters that have befallen the banking system - including such titans as UBS - ...
Bussard Fusion test will be funded 17 hours ago Read More
I have still not seen any results from the testing earlier this year, but those results must have been at least passingly interesting, because the Navy is funding further development. The Bussard F...
A good article on the Green affair 1 days ago Read More
Henry Porter, who to his immense credit has been telling it like it is on the civil liberties issue in Britain for several years, has a strong article in the Guardian on the arrest of Damian Green ...
Real money 3 days ago Read More
The Lakota Sioux have a number of long time libertarian supporters amongst them so I was not totally surprised to hear about the Free Lakota Bank. This new institution is issuing 100% backed curren...
Duckburg inflation 3 days ago Read More
Reason TV has used a brilliantly educational Donald Duck cartoon as a starting point in a video on current monetary problems. I think it is pitched at just about the right level to educate our poli...
Losing the plot 3 days ago Read More
My respect for the EU Referendum blog, one of my daily reads, has just cratered. It argues that because the person leaking immigration details to Damian Green had sought to get a Tory party job, an...
A very relevant film about East Germany 4 days ago Read More
The other night I rented out the DVD based on life in former East Germany, The Lives of Others. It is about what life in the former Communist state was like in the fag-end of the Cold War era. It p...
