Int’l Stories from 2013 the Media Missed
I missed lots of these!:
Three very large news items have broken this week that have very obviously been going on for a long time: Fukushima radiation is rapidly approaching our coast. Government monitors will be put in newsrooms across the country. The O Admin is backing away from the story now, meaning this will be done covertly rather than…
DetailsOutrage across the country! They speak of the robots:
Unfortunately this belief stems from severe but common economic ignorance. George Reisman explains, on the Tom Woods Show:
I love and employ logical deduction and induction often, and find that nearly every belief on the political spectrum falls into some sort of fallacy. One of the most common is the ad hominem or reverse ad hominem (appeal to authority), in which people speak about the source of the information giving veracity to the…
DetailsIf you spend much time reading economic debates, you have surely run across the furor and satisfaction resulting from the works of Keynesians Reinhart & Rogoff, about public debt and its affects on the growth and stability of nations. The researchers showed many things about debt causing signifiant threat to the well-being od the citizens…
DetailsAn article about a Jezebel article appeared on Bad Catholic a few days ago, both deserving of serious contemplation. The initial article, by a homosexual gentleman fed up with what has become the prototypical gay persona, gives a telling analysis of masculinity/femininity, power relationships, “gay privilege,” and a few other topics of note from an…
DetailsBuyouts like Facebook’s recent one of WhatsApp are one of the main reasons our economy is unsustainable. Peter Schiff would like a word with Facebook: Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook’s…
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