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Tax competition between countries is good. International agreements that organise tax harmonisation are bad. Tax competition
compels governments to economic use of
public resources. It stimulates efficient public services, prevents wasteful public spending
and saves taxpayers money.
Learn the logic, ethics & Benefits of of  tax competition in
this 5 min Video by Daniel J. Mitchell  Ph.D.

Do Oil prices cause Inflation or are they just a Consequence?
One of the biggest fallacies of the current debate is that high oil prices cause inflation. That is not true. Only excessive money supply can cause a general price rise. Central Banks' easy money is  the only cause of the inflation they claim to fight.
Bernanke struggles to define
what banks FED could let fail

( Bloomberg Aug 17 2008 )
Greenspan warns: More Bank Failures in the Pipeline
The insolvency crisis will come to an end only as US home prices begin to stabilise, and this is when the absorption of the huge excess of vacant homes that emerged from the housing boom is much further advanced than it is now. (Aug 4 2008)
Financial Market Stability
 Prof. Axel Weber, president
of Deutsche Bundesbank.


Three Things to Know About
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac





WATCH LIST
imploded and ailing Institutions

Lew Rockwell interviews Jörg Guido Hülsmann on the FED's over- expansionary monetary policy
(18 min. mp3)  -  04 Aug 2008
Mark Thornton explains the reason why record setting skyskrapers are excellent forebodes of recessions: Unnatural abundance of easy credit causes unnatural construction booms which cannot but unwind in a bust when
overexpensive buildings find no tenants.

(10 min. mp3)  -  18 Aug 2008
The Truth About Inflation
Just where does inflation come from ?
Outer space, perhaps?
Lessons from the 1970s
The only historical period that bears any resemblance to what is happening today is the 1970s. Then, and now, an oil price shock turned into a rise in the general price level. Both then and today, central banks largely accommodated this price rise. It was a mistake then and is a mistake now. Monetary policy has been excessively accommodating for more than a decade, building up excessive inflationary pressures in the global economy....
The paved Road to Hyper-Stagflation
Another Story Bankers and their Big Media don't tell
Prices for rice, corn, wheat and oil have doubled over the last 12 months. With half of the world's population living on less than 2 US$ a day the price hikes caused food riots in many countries and even oil price protests in Europe. Meanwhile the FED continues to print new money at the rate of 18%/yr and EU's m3 is at 12%.  Real inflation already hits 7% and -if the money printing continues- could reach 15% within 12-18 months, necessitating rate hikes with massive failures as a result. It is the excessive money printing which caused the credit crunch helped by mortgage fraud and the derivates orgy. The crisis will continue to deepen for another 24 months.
The paved Road
(59min-13mb mp3)
Europe's growth is fake 
 the wealth  produced by its army of bureaucrats
is imaginative. The  the nominal contribution to GDP of the public spending orgy is in reality worthless, causing even more inflation. Monetary tension is building up and European interest rate spreads widen rapidly. Italy and Greece could soon be forced to leave the Common Currency, which would cause a worldwide collapse of confidence in the Euro and in our whole fiat monetary system.  A worldwide disaster is in the making and just as in 1929, the architects of the desaster are our Central Bankers.
(60min-13mb mp3)


You can shear a sheep many times,
but you can only skin it once...
 


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The Audio library of Economics
Free to Choose: The Milton Friedman TV series
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Is the Credit Crisis really over?
Destructive State Agencies
Green gone wild: Nature vs Human Rights
Economics & Business principles 25 videos  
The paved road to HyperStagflation
5% growth is no Utopia
The Failure-of-Central-Banking
US & European Public Debt loose AAA Rating
The Future of the EMU

Causes of European Growth Differentials
European Social Model: Facts & Fairy Tales
Europe needs Saving
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Europe on the road to Serfdom?


Book Reviews: interviewing the authors (mp3)
Statistics: Guide to Global Data Sources
Quotes of the world wisest thinkers

Lisbon Treaty: Lies, Fraud and Deceit
Lisbon Treaty: Europeans want Referenda
Al Gore-ists advocate green Bureaucracy
Publications and lectures of H.H.Hoppe (mp3)
Tax competition: Logic & Benefits (YouTube)
Is the European Social Model doomed?
Can we still avoid Inflation (Hayek)

The Path to Sustainable Growth
Will pension time bomb sink the Euro?
Inflation & effective Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy Lessons from Europe 
Entrepreneurship is lucrative... and just.
The optimal size of public Spending
Equality and growth: a non-linear relationship.

A Danish Model for all? IMF says No
More Europe will not solve our problems
Flexicurity:a Danish fairy tale come true?
Inflation explained on one Page.
What is Money - What is inflation.
Great Myths of the Great 1929 Depression

Is online banking Safe? Northern Rock lessons
Letter to President Bush
Shifting Tax on pollutors helps Economy.
Quotes of the world wisest thinkers


More Europe will not solve our problems
Flexicurity:a Danish fairy tale come true?
Inflation explained on one Page.
What is Money - What is inflation.
The Failure-of-Central-Banking
Shifting Tax on pollutors helps Economy.
Quotes of the world wisest thinkers

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  Vol.  1 - The Power of the Market
  Vol.  2 - The Tyranny of Control
  Vol.  3 - Freedom & Prosperity
  Vol.  4 - The Failure of Socialism
  Vol.  5 - Created Equal
  Vol.  6 - What's Wrong with our Schools
  Vol.  7 - Who Protects the Consumer?
  Vol.  8 - Who Protects the Worker
  Vol.  9 - How to Cure Inflation
  Vol.  10 - How to Stay Free
 



States are aggressive entities which steal property through taxation and expropriation,  initiate physical force, create monopolies, and restrict trade. States today are as normal as slavery was in the old days.




Short Messages



For the 13th year in a row
Auditors refuse to approve the European Union budget.
12 % of regional spending was not accounted for. Farm subsidies got to Horse-breeding and golf courses

 
The rise of anti-Americanism in Europe is a danger to both American and European pocketbooks, and our collective liberty. Here is why: Europe and America are each other's biggest trading and investment partners, and anything that damages that relationship is harmful to everyone involved.

by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
 More social spending by EU governments is not the best way to reduce inequalities, and can have unintended consequences, says Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, a former Prime Minister of Poland. He argues that the fastest route to cohesion both between and within member states is freer movement of people, capital and services
How poor are the American Poor ?
Poverty is an important and emotional issue. Last year, the Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty  declaring that there were 37 million poor persons living in the United States in 2005.  12.6 percent of all Americans. This number has varied from 11.3 percent to 15.1 percent of the population over the past 20 years. To understand poverty in America, it is important to look behind these numbers—to look at the actual living conditions of the individuals the government deems to be poor. Official data show 43% of them own a three bedroom dwelling. 80% enjoy air conditioning, 75% have a car and 31% of the poor families even have two vehicles. American poor on average dispose of 114 m² living space. Substantialy more than the European agerage of poor ànd wealthy families together: 86 m² in Belgium and 85m² in the UK.  
This analysis of the Heritage Foundation learns many american poor
are in fact much better of than most of the European wealthy

The Clean Energy Scam
Ethanol increases global warming, destroys forests and inflates food prices. So why are we subsidizing it?
Shadow Government Statistics

Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting


Big Government increases Poverty Rates
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D., 
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Goldwater Institute finds High-tax and -spending states suffer  increases in poverty rates, both general and in childhood poverty rates.  The paper provides scientific evidence that private-sector job growth is the most effective antipoverty program. Policymakers who seek to reduce poverty and improve the lot of the poor should embrace policies promoting as much private-sector growth as possible, and therefor reduce taxes and limit the growth of public spending.  Contrary to dogmatic beliefs and special interest claims by those those employed by the government programs the paper demonstrates that the promotion of Big Government, high taxes and public spending destroy wealth and actually hurt the poor.

The Laffer Curve explained
  In these short Youtubes, Dan Mitchell
explains the relationship between tax rates
and tax revenue, and the reasons
why marginal tax revenu declines
when tax rates increase. Historical examples
proove the case for moderate tax rates.
laffer curve
by Daniel J. Mitchell  Ph.D.
Part 1   Part 2     Part 3