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Economics

The Economist’s “Most Influential” is Laughable

February 12, 2011 – 5:27 pm

In an article today the Economist polls their own group of “economists” and asks who the most influential was over the past decade. I laughed.

I think the Economist made a nice attempt but no surprise, they completely ignored all the real economists and stuck with the inflationists, socialists, and statists to fill their poll.

Allow me to do a bit of correcting in terms of a list of the most influential economists of the past and present. It would do them wonders to look some of these distinguished scholars up and give them the exposure they deserve. Unfortunately, the forecast in Hell would need to be snow before this happened.

Of the Past -

  • Ludwig von Mises
  • Murray N. Rothbard
  • Carl Menger
  • Henry Hazlitt
  • F. A. Hayek

Present -

  • Israel Kirzner
  • Robert Murphy
  • Walter Block
  • Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  • Thomas DiLorenzo

And that’s just naming a handful of the true economic minds of this and any generation. I could spend an hour listing the names of everyone but these are the one’s that came to mind. No order, no rank, just true economist thought. Brilliance.

The Economist is highly celebrated but it’s high time they show respect to the Austrian school, especially considering we have been right about every major economic event over the last 130+ years.

However, they won’t and that’s fine. You can educate yourself on these matters. Head over to Mises.org and consume everything for free!

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Blog Politics

A Blurb On the State of the Union

January 25, 2011 – 9:14 pm

While most of the country is sitting in front of their television watching their leader spit well written lies to their face please consider a few things. It is imperative you not let this clever marketing gimmick blind you to the truth.

In the hour Obama will speak, roughly $7 million dollars will be spent on the Iraq war. One hour! Obama tonight will state that there will be a budget freeze but defense spending will not be cut. This means that the “war” will continue to be escalated. This means more people will die. More lives taken.

Obama will mention that jobs are on the rise and give you some bullshit figure to prove his point, however his facts and statistics are all lies. Made up numbers to blind you to the fact that unemployment is on the rise and the economy is ready to burst. Unemployment is closer to 20% but you will hear something about 9%.

In the hour Obama will speak people will die, freedoms will be destroyed, private property world wide will be violated. Don’t listen to the lies about the State of our Union being strong. Strength does not come through collectivism. Strength is in the individual and everything touched upon tonight will serve as a way to strip the individualism you have a natural right to.

Tonight, let’s not celebrate a room full of criminals and corporatists.

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