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Can’t Make ObamaCare Without Breaking Some Households

My latest at Mises Canada. In addition to being wrong on the economics of it, our progressive supporters of ObamaCare display a remarkable callousness to the actual human beings involved.

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“My History With IBC [Infinite Banking Concept]”

This article is from the May 2013 issue of the Lara-Murphy Report. This area actually represents a large and growing portion of what I do for a living, so I thought my autobiographical tale would interest some of you.

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Best Things on Mt. Gox I’ve Seen

I really hope none of you gets his news from me, because I don’t hit on a lot of things. In case you haven’t heard, Mt. Gox–what was the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange–has folded, leaving millions of depositors unsure if they will see any of their Bitcoin again. Jesse Powell is an insider who wrote […]

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Two Unrelated (?) Videos

I am carrying these YouTubes on my browser to post for a Potpourri, but I need to clean up the tabs and I want to feature them. So here ya go. I think they are pretty self-explanatory.

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The Pros and Cons of Being Murdered by the President

This guy Matt Walsh is really growing on me. People keep linking him on Facebook; it’s gotten to the point where I may just have to update my Blogroll, something that happens as often as a Fort Knox audit.

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Potpourri

==> Once again, Bryan Caplan beats me to the punch. Barry Ritholz et al. have things exactly backwards when it comes to the “welfare queen” corporations relying on food stamps etc. to underpay their workforce. Other things equal, a stronger “social safety net” makes workers pickier when it comes to their jobs. Put it this […]

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Daniel Drezner Invents the Most Bogus Austerity “Fact” in American History

Paul Krugman approvingly quotes from Daniel Drezner, who writes: One of the Beltway tribe’s greatest strengths is also one of its greatest weaknesses: groupthink. As I noted before, a Beltway consensus actually counts for something in the world of international policymaking. That does not mean that this consensus emerges from any solid analysis, however. For […]

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Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Man After Dashcam Shows Cops Lying

I encourage you to watch this whole thing. Near the end they explain that the police’s own Internal Affairs investigation had concluded the cops did nothing wrong. Thank goodness the second dash cam video came to light. (Also note that the police didn’t originally turn this over. I don’t understand exactly what changed, but prosecutors […]

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