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• Kurt Horner: To Roderick: This is one of the best short explanations of the Austrian business cycle theory I've ever seen. It's all too easy to boil down the theo...
• Alix: Empywheel has put out a really good article. Thanks for the link. Really strong stuff in there....
• Fascist Nation: So after reading this article why do I have visions of marching nuns singing: "Every sperm is precious, every sperm divine. If one sperm is waste...
• D.A. Ridgely: A couple of small points. First, although you did not say I was, your post could be read to suggest that I am a "[d]efender... of our intellectua...
• Alix: Roderick, great article link. “I was guilty of war crimes against the Vietnamese people. I intentionally bombed women and children.” – John McCain...
• Jim Alabama: Hey Mona. My apologies for suggesting that getting you to help against your neighbors might be why what was done was done. I'm reminded of a cli...
• Mike G: Great post - comprehensive and defensively written. I would be interested to hear your thoughts specifically on the wisdom of inflation rate target...
• Joshua Hall-Bachner: While I'm generally in support of a movement towards compulsory licensing (it's absolutely done a great deal for music -- imagine if bands couldn't pe...
• Keith Preston: Roderick, Could you post a link to that listserv here? I'd like to check out that debate!...
• Mike Fenger: Mona, So sorry to hear about all this. Best wishes for getting away from this situation, which sadly seems like the only way to put it all behind y...
• Roderick T. Long: I should add that in a recent dust-up on the Mises listserv over whether big business was mostly a victim or mostly predatory, the mostly-a-victim vie...
• Roderick T. Long: They all tend to subscribe to the “big business is the most persecuted minority” school of thought, and it shows in pretty much everything they wri...
• quasibill: Ha! Took me all of two seconds at mises to find an article that fits my description to a T: http://www.mises.org/story/3135 Note that the aut...
• quasibill: Martin, You can start with Kinsella, Reisman, and their retinue. Others, like Block, will acknowledge it when pressed, but their analysis of the...
• Micha Ghertner: So how's that bailout working out for you so far?...
• Mike G: Roderick T. Long: I don’t see why the argument should apply any less well to non-manufacturing industries than to manufacturing ones; can yo...
• martin: the mainstream Austrians have this curious notion of a political economy that operates independent of any of the desires of the main players. ...
• Roderick T. Long: I agree with all of the above comments, except that I don't think it's true that Austrians are ignoring Cantillon effects and the beneficiaries thereo...
• quasibill: Good article, but a couple of quibbles/errata/whatever: I think the one thing most "mainstream" Austrians seem to lose sight of is the point that K...
• Roderick T. Long: To martin: Oopsy! Fixed -- thanks!!...
• Less Antman: I love your post, but I think there is also another sense in which this crisis was the result of an absence of regulation. A free market severely reg...
• Mona: Thanks so much for the supportive comments, Max. But if you are broke too, I don't want your $$. I'll graciously accept it from those who can give wit...
• Kevin Carson: One again, out of the park. A couple of comments: As a non-Austrian who appreciates Austrian ideas, I think it's important to stress that "artific...
• Nathan: "The grain of truth in the otherwise ludicrous statist mantra that the financial crisis was caused by “lack of regulation” is that when you pass regul...
• martin: if consumers rank goods made from rubber higher than goods made from steel, rubber prices will rise relative to those of steel, thus encouraging ec...
• aeroskyn: For years the Icelandic people want the American NATO base to go away. It finally did about 2 years ago. I know times are bad everywhere, but losing A...
• max: and oddly am enjoined for reasons I do not get from going to restaurants where alcohol is served. The evergreen default morals clause. ...
• Alex J.: One of the things that allowed Marvel and DC to maintain their effective duopoly is distribution. There are economies of scale to maintaining large di...
• Dain: I remember reading something about this in Spiked Online. I wonder if rather passionate defenses of Osama bin Laden's potlitical complaints; agree...
• Jennifer Abel: In modern America, paranoia is actually one of the healthiest emotions you can have. Especially where the police are concerned. They are NOT your frie...
• Roderick T. Long: Mike G: You make an argument that applies well to manufacturing companies but then go on to cite 2 harmfully oversized companies which are ...
• Fledermaus: Perhaps the schools can just warn them that any attempts at violent jihad will go on their permanent school record...
• Keith Preston: Really. Whatever one thinks about Bill Ayers, at least he was trying to end an imperialist war, not participate in one....
• Roderick T. Long: It turns out that ...
• Keith Preston: Every time I hear stories like these I reminded of the late Sam Francis' label of "anarcho-tyranny" to describe modern American government: http://...
• Angelica: Alright, obviously posting quickly during time off at work is not the thing to do. I will fix the typo....
• Black Bloke: Toolkit? Rather than "tookit"?...
• TGGP: Do you own a gun? What are the gun laws in your area?...
• Angelica: Fixed. Thanks, Patrick....
• Erick Vasconcelos: The thing I thought the funniest when I went to the US was the presence of smoke detectors in every house. I laughed at people having to leave their o...