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Estonia’s success with a Free-market Economy or Thank you, Mr. Friedman

Today’s global economic malaise has been contributed to a variety of factors including loose lending standards, collateralization of debt, the shakiness of exotic investment derivatives and a lack of...

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What Milton Friedman would’ve thought of today’s recession

According to Mr. Friedman, the Great Depression did not occur primarily as a result of the stock market crash of the 1930s but mainly because of the lack of intervention of the Federal Reserve. When...

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How the Federal Reserve is scarier than Saw VI

The process of awareness begins somewhere. A comment in passing.  A line of protest in the news. Snippets of overheard conversation. A good friend of mine Chris brought this up in a conversation. He...

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Understanding Economics

A simple enough post. Here’s how Thomas Carlyle defined economics in 1849 : “Economics is dreary, desolate and indeed quite distressing, what we might call by way of eminence, the dismal science.” Why...

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The Lessons of Milton Friedman

Economics Lesson 1 : Economic growth causes inflation i.e. increasing demand and lack of sufficient supply causes inflation. Economics Lesson 2 : A slow-growth economy leads to a decline in inflation....

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Free Trade & Open Border Migration

We know about free trade and how it is the basic tenet of globalization. That being said, globalization is essentially about open borders to trade goods. The question that has popped up at various...

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Why India and China refuse to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions

India and China have refused to take part in reaching 50% of their level of greenhouse gas emission by 2050 which is a shame. India and China contribute about 25% of the global greenhouse gas emissions...

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The US Tax Breaks 101

With all the debate about the tax cuts in progress and with very few people being able to comprehend what they really mean, the below article from Yahoo answers was more than insightful. Enjoy! Suppose...

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6 Naisbitt Megatrends that held up in 2011

I came across “Megatrends” by John Naisbitt a year ago in a used bookstore  and bought it. It lay on my bookshelf for a while collecting dust until I decided recently to give it a read. I had the 1982...

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