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• Mona: morey writes:,here are places where you can live cheaply without so much drama. Look at northern Idaho, or northern NH or other rural areas. It won...
• P.M.Lawrence: There are a couple of "definite maybes" here:- - Kathy G.'s "What this basically means is that although output per worker hour is increasing, the g...
• Dain: Anon, Keith hasn't threatened anybody here nor contributed worthless commentary....
• Anonymous: This web site is dedicated to hosting a dialogue between libertarians and the left, with the goal of encouraging theoretical synthesis and practical c...
• morey: Mona, once this arrest business is done, get yourself out of this situation. There are places where you can live cheaply without so much drama. Look...
• christhamrin: googling the mccain quote it turns out that he was retelling the story of being forced to confess to being a war criminal. (see: http://www.snopes.c...
• bystander: {{{{Hugs}}}}, Mona. Presumably, you have my email if you need an ear....
• Amy: I don't know whether it's relevant, but having lived in both countries, I find that Canadians are generally a lot more docile and obedient than Americ...
• Kolohe: One reason is that the recession that occurred earlier this decade hit African-Americans especially hard, and they never made up for the lost groun...
• Keith Preston: I'm not convinced. Just as Reaganomics was an extension of policies begun during the Carter administration, so was Clintonomics the culmination of Rea...
• Dain: If Bartels believes that minimum wage is good for the poor, he is in dire need of an education in economics. And promoting full employment is not the ...
• Mona: Mike Fenger: Doorknob bless you....
• Mona: Ondolette, thank you for your comment. On lawyer's advice I did not bring up the strip search (in court) and I already knew it would be futile. This ...
• ondelette: This is so sad, Mona. Did you see someone about it (a professional)? When you go through an incident of high critical stress, see somebody and talk i...
• Mona: Thanks DAR. I imagine that after I've dealt with the severe setback this whole matter caused to my already fragile mental health (anxiety disorders ar...
• Dain: See, look what the bailout did!...
• Jim Alabama: Just saw this article about a Southampton woman. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-listri095875464oct09,0,7315960.story For what it's ...
• Angelica: Not great. How about the contention that this is just a Wall Street Crisis that can be left to its own devices?...
• D.A. Ridgely: Mona, I'm so sorry about this travesty! Being in one of my periodic attempts to wean myself from that most addictive of all drugs, Internetin, I ...
• quasibill: Mike G- If you want to learn more about why inflation targeting is popular amongst central bankers, google "downward wage rigidity". You'll find s...
• P.M.Lawrence: RTL, you also have "now" for "not", in "...for Austrians the crucial question is now...". There's an important issue missing in this analysis, name...
• 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...