pengepolitikk

Hva er en rettighet? iflg Wikipeda er det :Man bruker skille mellom naturlige og konvensjonelle rettigheter. De naturlige betraktes da som gitt av sunn fornuft eller av en eller annen metafysisk høyere instans. […]

Tre av ti nordmenn mener 17. mai betyr noe ekstra i år, skriver Dagbladet om årets 17. mai feiring. […]

De religionspolitiske debattene blir i praksis ofte vaklende der relevant og irrelevant framføres med like store innlevelse. […]

Også den seksten år gamle skolejenta Ilaria Capodieci, venninne av den tidligere omkomne Melissa Bassi, har dødd av skadene hun ble påført under eksplosjonen utenfor… […]

Om ettermiddagen den 23. mai 1992 landet dommer Giovanni Falcone på flyplassen i Sicilias hovedstad Palermo med en av statens flymaskiner, som hadde brakt ham… […]

Natt til lørdag barket to grupper sammen i et slagsmål på Oslo S. Situasjonen ble beskrevet som kaotisk, og folk ble sparket mens de lå… […]

Channel your inner matador, enter the bullring and find out why two economists—one very well known and one not—are having a YouTube stoush on who or what is responsible for the GFC and the current eurozone crisis. […]

Why do some nations fail while others succeed? Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Is it history? Is it climate, geography or culture? Or is it institutions? Institutions that allow virtuous circles of innovation, economic expansion, more widely-held wealth and peace. […]

Francois Hollande is the new French president. During his campaign the newly elected socialist president pledged to: lower the retirement age to 60, hire 60,000 new teachers and other staff for the school sector and freeze petrol prices for three months by decree. But they were campaign promises. What is the political reality and what does it mean for the eu […]

I dag skal jeg ta for meg fenomenet som på engelsk heter "tragedy of the commons" og som til norsk kan oversettes til felleseiendommens (allmenningens) tragedie eller, mer generelt, til fellesskapets tragedie. Dette er et fenomen som er beskrevet ... […]

I følge Bellona er helium alt for billig. Karl Kristiansen sier: "Det er sannsynlig at fremtidig teknologi vil etterspørre helium i et helt annet omfang enn hva som er tilgjengelig gjennom slik fremstilling, og alternative produksjonsmetoder i betydelig mengder er vanskelig ... […]

Complexity theory is a a fairly new science that has emerged in the last 50 years or so. It attempts to understand "messy" systems that on the surface appear to be chaotic and disorganized, such as the weather or ... […]

18.05.12: På gårsdagens 17.mai-feiring sto kongefamilien i flere timer og vinket til barnetoget. Med dagens rekordhøye befolkningsvekst i Oslo kan det være at kongefamilien må bruke ytterligere flere timer på slottsbalkongen, for barnetoget vil bare bli lengre og lengre. Befolkningsveksten krever også nye skoler, og til tross for Oslo kommunes skyhøye ambisj […]

18.05.12: Avsløringene av svenske imamers holdninger til kvinner sist onsdag, ble etterfulgt av en fjernsynsdebatt, der muslimske mannlige ledere på autopilot rettet skytset mot SVT bruk av skjult kamera og påstått triksing med klippingen av opptakene. Og alle var selvsagt mot all form for vold mot hustruer, alle mente overgrep må meldes til politiet, og ing […]

18.05.12: Nesodden er en kommune i Akershus med ca. 17 000 innbyggere. Det er like mye som innbyggertallet i Norge har økt siden årsskiftet. Dette er den største folkeveksten som noen gang er registrert i 1.kvartal i Norge. Fødselsoverskuddet sto for 20 prosent, mens nettoinnvandringen sto for 80 prosent. […]

För ungefär 90 år sedan frekventerade en italiensk-född entreprenör löpsedlarna i USA. Som bekant var början av 1900-talet en tid då många sydeuropéer emigrerade till USA, och deras släktingar och vänner skickade ofta med s.k. postkuponger i brevförsändelser för att underlätta korrespondensen med sina närstående (på så sätt slapp emigranten besväret med att […]

Nästan alla icke-amerikanska banker i världen har nu slutat acceptera amerikanska klienter eftersom den 400 sidor långa lagstiftningen är alldeles för dyr, krånglig och riskabel för bankerna att försöka handskas med. VD:n för en av Singapores största banker konstaterade att det skulle krävas ett helt team med jurister bara för att lyckas tolka och uppfylla d […]

Gladbär Medan Jonatan funderade på vart han nu skulle ta vägen närmade sig försiktigt en mullig, sjaskigt klädd kvinna. Kvinnans feta, ovårdade hår gjorde honom illamående. ”Psst! Vill du må bra?” Jonatan tog instinktivt ett steg bakåt, kvinnan luktade skämd svamp. Hon upprepade med ansträngd röst, ”Vill du må bra?” Med tanke på vad konstapel läs mer » […]

From the moment it became such an enthusiastic early adopter of the wind-farm blight, I knew that there was no hope left for Cornwall. And now Richard Madeley has confirmed it: whatever attraction the county may once have had in the days of Rebecca or Demelza Poldark has now long since been buried in a […]

Bob Geldof is a rich man. According to the Sunday Times rich list he is worth £32 million and like most rich people he is understandably keen to hang on to his fortune. That's why, very sensibly, he gives no more of his money away to the Government than he has to. As a registered […]

I have just been snorkelling over the Great Barrier Reef. (Not all of it: it's 1,600 miles long). And I can now officially confirm that it's doing just fine. The fish and corals are in excellent shape. Not one of the bits I investigated showed any signs of a) overheating due to global warming, b) […]

Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest place on earth”. Roger Sowell  writes on May 18, 2012 … Continue reading → […]

Flashback, Michael Mann said this on October 5th, 2010: Our efforts to communicate the science are opposed by a well-funded, highly organized disinformation effort that aims to confuse the public about the nature of our scientific understanding. … Scientists are … Continue reading → […]

I’ve been asked to provide some information on the upcoming eclipse Sunday, so here it is. I’ll actually miss the first part of the Heartland conference (Sunday night and Monday) due to the promise to my children we’d see this … Continue reading → […]

The aim of the law should not be to constrict but to maximize price freedom and market freedom. […]

Rather than promoting an efficient allocation of real savings, the current so-called deregulated monetary system has been promoting the channeling of money out of thin air. In order to reduce a further weakening of the real wealth-generation processes, it is necessary to introduce tighter controls on banks. […]

If Adam Smith purged economic thought of the very existence of the entrepreneur, J.B. Say, to his everlasting credit, brought him back. […]

May/19/2012Also on the Big Picture: Keeping the Faith, Part 2: When to sell, when to hedge and what to do now, and more of your Q-CallsIn this segment Jim looks at the catalyst for global QE. He also continues with Part Two of "Keeping the Faith" and talks about when to sell, when to hedge, and what to do now with gold stocks. Jim also answers more […]

May/19/2012Technician Louise Yamada: Be Defensive If You Are In The MarketsAlso, Jim Puplava with the weeks Market Wrap-Up and Rob Bernard with the Fixed Income ReportJim is pleased to welcome back noted technician Louise Yamada this week. Louise still prefers the US markets as the best alternative, but urges caution if you are investing. Louise also mention […]

[…]

Economists have agreed that strong property rights protections are a precondition to economic growth and prosperity since the correlation was demonstrated by the seventeenth century polemicist Thomas ... […]

The following is cross-posted from www.internationalpropertyrightsindex.org Background The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is an independent, Western Canada-based think tank. Our mission is to dev... […]

On March 30, Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), submitted to Congress the 2011 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement. As demonstrated by the... […]

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fadel Gheit, managing director of oil and gas research at Oppenheimer & Co., talks with Bloomberg's Ken Prewitt and Tom Keene. For more ``Surveillance'' and ``On the Economy'' podcasts, please visit iAmplify.com. […]

Andrew Breitbart strikes from the grave!If you haven't seen Drudge, the story in short is that Breitbart.com reported that in 1991, Obama's literary agent published a booklet with the bio above stating point blank that he was born in Kenya.Now she says it was just a silly mistake.Let's grant that Obama really was born in the USA as he claims. […]

This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical news broadcast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you the updated French national anthem. We also feature a trip to the top of Mt. Everest and Israel's premiere investigative reporter Ilana Dayan's exposes on a plot to usurp Israel's righ […]

Two weeks ago, US Congressman Joe Walsh published an op-ed in the The Washington Times in which he called for the US and Israel to abandon the two-state solution.After running through the record of Palestinian duplicity, failed governance, terrorism and bad faith, he called for Israel to apply its sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. In his words, Israel should […]