Category: Aggregated

The Plebiscite: Most Affected Colombians Voted for Peace, Who Voted ‘No’?

Sweeping Privatization? Greece Approves Plan To Transfer State Utilities To New Asset Fund

Number of imprisoned indigenous people in Australia surged 54% over past 15yrs – report

Yemeni missile ‘targets Saudi military base’

Germany to press US to effectively lift Iran sanctions: Vice chancellor

One year since US airstrike on MSF facility in Kunduz, hospitals still ‘part of battlefield’

No majority for US death penalty – for first time in 45 yrs

Turkey extends state of emergency for three more months

Germany accuses US of ‘economic war’

Taliban flushed out of northern Afghan city of Kunduz

At least 22 killed in Daesh bombing attack on wedding in Syria’s Hasakah

In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right. In a famous 1947 dissent, Judge Learned Hand wrote: “[T]here is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. … Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.” … Continue reading →

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A major “Sword of Damocles” overhanging global stock markets has been the situation with Deutsche Bank, which has a monumental derivative book and whose stock has been plunging to new lows. We have largely ignored this situation up until now, on the assumption that everyone else will until the SHTF, a strategy that has until now paid off. However, we should keep in mind that this is potentially a very dangerous situation that could dwarf the Lehman debacle and send world markets into a tailspin. That said, however, we have just seen a turnaround on stupendous record volume in DB … Continue reading →

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This talk was delivered at the Boston Mises Circle on October 1, 2016. Last week marked the 135th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, and that’s an appropriate moment to revisit Guido Hulsmann’s brilliant biography of this great man, Mises: Last Knight of Liberalism. I commend this book to you, incidentally, not simply for its profile of a seminal figure, but also as an outstanding work of intellectual history that incidentally offers the reader a graduate course in the history of economic thought. As I reread the concluding sections, I was struck by the difference in temperament between … Continue reading →

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 EXCLUSIVE NEW INFORMATION REGARDING CLINTON’S HEALTH: President Obama is so concerned about Hillary Clinton’s health that he recently offered to arrange a secret medical checkup for her at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Hillary declined the offer because she feared the media would find out about her Walter Reed visit and learn the truth about her medical condition—that she is suffering from arrhythmia (an abnormal heart beat), a leaking heart valve, chronic low blood pressure, insufficient blood flow, a tendency to form life-threatening blood clots, and troubling side effects from her medications. Hillary has arranged her own secret … Continue reading →

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