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» 15/01/2009 10:41:02 PM Spare me the pretension of superior insight. So the idea is to systematically use violen.....
» 15/01/2009 9:18:23 PM The glaring error in this article is that it doesn’t identify who the ‘we’ is who is to ta.....
» 15/01/2009 8:57:31 PM Human beings are rational at least in that they intend by their actions to cause an effect.....
» 9/01/2009 11:32:03 PM Kulu Science doesn't supply value judgments. You are simply rehearsing an incompetent argu.....
» 9/01/2009 12:05:51 PM I have practised in both adversarial and inquisitorial forums. I found the inquisitorial s.....
» 8/01/2009 9:24:58 PM Kulu the fact you have been refuted doesn't mean the people who point it out have got men.....
» 7/01/2009 8:58:31 PM Rosie May I have your response to the question how taxation can be ethically distinguishe.....
» 7/01/2009 8:51:21 PM Very good article, and yes you are right, the law should not protect so-called positive ri.....
» 7/01/2009 8:19:54 PM I met a Syrian guy once who told me that in Syria one quarter of his monthly salary went t.....
» 7/01/2009 8:32:18 AM Kulu Don’t just ignore the fact that I have refuted your argument that the science is sett.....
» 5/01/2009 10:57:45 PM Even if only one person were to die as a result of the deliberate decision say to ban the .....
» 5/01/2009 10:51:52 PM The human population has greatly increased because of the use of fossil fuels to make food.....
» 4/01/2009 8:41:07 PM One Under God The US government is not bailing out capitalism, they are bailing out speci.....
» 4/01/2009 8:21:42 PM If we accept the positivist idea that rights are whatever the state says they are, rights .....
» 4/01/2009 8:17:03 PM There are two schools of thought about rights: the positivist and the natural law. The p.....
» 2/01/2009 9:23:40 PM The most active, vocal and tolerated racists in Australia today, by far, are those who sup.....
» 2/01/2009 9:17:06 PM Ludwig “in order for you to substantiate your claim that sustainability hardly qualifies .....
» 2/01/2009 8:57:51 PM This article is based on a flawed and unethical idea that a right is whatever the state or.....
» 2/01/2009 8:16:57 PM But the Marxian arguments a revolt against reason and evidence: • Confusion over semantics.....
» 2/01/2009 8:14:12 PM The labour theory of value has been refuted so many times, I wouldn’t be prepared to discu.....
» 1/01/2009 6:44:45 PM If such state action were abolished, people would still be able to buy and sell oil or wha.....
» 1/01/2009 10:56:56 AM Xu, that was a very good article. The last thing China needs to do is to take economic a.....
» 1/01/2009 10:16:16 AM Next, you are the first one to clearly distinguish the issues and get past the semantic co.....
» 31/12/2008 1:06:13 PM Whether McDonalds could exist without McDonnell-Douglas is precisely the issue. But the .....
» 30/12/2008 8:21:12 PM The state and the market are intertwined in the way that a parasite is intertwined with it.....
» 30/12/2008 4:05:57 PM Suppose the populace voted in the government and gave it full power to do whatever it took.....
» 30/12/2008 4:05:36 PM Ludwig What you are saying assumes what is in issue, both: 1. whether sustainability is a.....
» 30/12/2008 12:20:11 PM The fundamental intellectual failure of this article is that it does not distinguish betwe.....
» 29/12/2008 8:40:12 PM Stephen Hagan sees clearly that government interventions intended to 'address the social d.....
» 29/12/2008 4:02:03 PM Surely not? Wouldn’t you say, people don’t have a “right” to live at the expense of others.....
» 29/12/2008 4:01:02 PM I am merely inquiring how the ethical basis of taxation can be distinguished from that of .....
» 29/12/2008 11:57:20 AM "It seems as though you are making it out to be a whole lot more complex than it is.&.....
» 28/12/2008 9:25:49 PM I believe that as soon as the reasoning behind sustainability is examined, it crumbles. .....
» 27/12/2008 1:31:03 PM The concept of sustainabililty is so flawed on so many levels that it’s hard to know where.....
» 25/12/2008 11:43:05 PM In this current case, the new money went into the housing sector. The new money available .....
» 25/12/2008 11:38:42 PM To explain my take on the derivatives bubble I need first to explain the Austrian school t.....
» 25/12/2008 9:06:39 PM The holiday resorts of Fiji and drug dealers of Kings Cross are reportedly very happy with.....
» 24/12/2008 9:52:54 PM 1. "It is a widespread fallacy that skillful advertising can talk the consumers into .....
» 24/12/2008 8:43:06 PM This is just more of a belief that government has superior knowledge, capacity and goodnes.....
» 24/12/2008 8:41:36 PM That is merely argument by slogans and labels. The great attraction of Malthusian theory.....
» 23/12/2008 4:08:18 PM (cont.) of the economists that the wealth of nations comes from work, savings and trade, a.....
» 23/12/2008 4:07:21 PM Grim The question how best to provide for the material welfare of the mass of people canno.....
» 22/12/2008 11:46:41 AM (cont.) Nor does it consider the possibility that governments in general might be making .....
» 22/12/2008 11:46:09 AM The author assumes but does not say why governments should eliminate “inequality” in healt.....
» 21/12/2008 5:13:58 PM (cont.) In nature, competition results in the destruction of the loser. But competition u.....
» 21/12/2008 12:21:09 PM Grim The market’s answer to the failure of companies is not necessarily for them to get bi.....
» 20/12/2008 4:34:06 PM Kellie, I thought your article was good. I am surprised at the tenor of the comments. I th.....
» 20/12/2008 4:30:04 PM Richard, you are right. "Capitalism", "free trade" and "economi.....
» 19/12/2008 8:13:29 PM Hmmm..... How about compulsory castration of the author on the ground that what he is atte.....
» 18/12/2008 11:51:06 PM Great article. What an unholy alliance of every kind of rapacious criminality. The whole.....
» 18/12/2008 10:59:01 PM Certainly it is obscene to see governments defrauding the entire population and then chann.....
» 17/12/2008 9:02:38 PM All the problems Foyle cites are only possible because of governmental intervention in the.....
» 15/12/2008 2:41:36 PM (cont.) (Mil_observer's last post assumes that the price of money in private transaction.....
» 15/12/2008 11:38:08 AM Peter: to answer your query… The explicit premises of your argument are that the financia.....
» 14/12/2008 2:18:16 PM Mil-observer in this thread displays the deep structure underlying all Marxian argument. .....
» 13/12/2008 10:46:47 PM Mil Your personal argument proves nothing, and don't think it conceals the fact that the .....
» 13/12/2008 10:21:13 PM Obviously if we don't count the cost of something, anything will seem beneficial. The fa.....
» 13/12/2008 3:31:42 PM This article looks on seven decades of inflation of the money supply by the Federal Reserv.....
» 13/12/2008 12:16:10 PM Anyone advocating that government should take money from the general population and give i.....
» 12/12/2008 2:32:12 PM Bennie and Candide It is not the function of economists to predict the future, any more t.....
» 12/12/2008 2:17:04 PM mil-observer By definition, people backing bail-outs are not 'free trade'. You are blaming.....
» 12/12/2008 11:07:59 AM But if they are to take action using their own bodies which are now presumptively at your .....
» 12/12/2008 11:07:29 AM Underlying this article and the posts in support is the facile and non-viable assumption s.....
» 12/12/2008 9:19:17 AM You make no mention of the Federal Reserve, and seem not to understand that by lowering in.....
» 10/12/2008 5:43:15 PM Two questions: 1. If forced labour is an abuse of human rights, what about taxation? Isn't.....
» 10/12/2008 5:23:35 PM *If* the government lowers interest rates, government cannot stop the resulting inflation......
» 10/12/2008 5:22:35 PM This is yet another in a series of articles blaming capitalism for the failure of governme.....
» 10/12/2008 12:58:55 PM Mil-observer It's explained in my first post in this thread. What part don't you understan.....
» 9/12/2008 8:59:58 PM Ken_L You are talking about the richest population in the history of the world. The poore.....
» 9/12/2008 4:48:28 PM To say the markets were ‘unregulated’ is simple ignorance. Prices are the steering mechani.....
» 9/12/2008 4:44:37 PM This is another article by authors displaying a failure to understand what they are talkin.....
» 8/12/2008 11:46:13 AM Why don't we just pass a law that everyone has a right to live at the expense of everyone .....
» 8/12/2008 11:34:48 AM Both Marx and Keynes had assumed that these problems just mysteriously and spontaneously a.....
» 8/12/2008 11:32:45 AM This article displays a failure to understand what has caused the crisis and why. In bri.....
» 7/12/2008 1:18:32 PM Hard to know where to begin refuting such a jumble of fallacies. All you have said is ba.....
» 6/12/2008 8:40:55 PM Jacinta, your analysis is spot-on but for two points. There is a direct comparison betwe.....
» 6/12/2008 8:20:20 PM Jedimaster, you correctly acknowledge that government’s manipulation of the money supply h.....
» 6/12/2008 7:42:57 PM The problem with this proposal is the underlying assumption that companies are the ultimat.....
» 6/12/2008 12:46:09 PM The problem that the socialist environmentalists seem to have is with the existence of hum.....
» 6/12/2008 11:59:14 AM Name-calling is no substitute for sound argument. There is more ground for calling gover.....
» 5/12/2008 8:04:01 PM If we were to take away all the human beings, there would be no value to speak of in the e.....
» 1/12/2008 10:13:36 PM All you have described are economic history and subsidiary effects of a prime cause that y.....
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