AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS ADDICT

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Happy 103rd Birthday Milton Friedman, by Mark J. Perry, at carpediemblog. Yesterday was Milton Friedman’s birthday. Milton Friedman had a talent for explaining complex economic concepts in a way that regular people like me were able to understand. This post by Mark J. Perry has some great quotes and a link to some great videos. Here is a video of Milton Friedman at his best as he takes on leftist Phil Donahue.

Here is the full episode with Friedman on the Donahue show. This is a great lesson on how to talk to a leftist.

Same Attorney In Charge Of Retrieving Lois Lerner’s IRS E-Mails Now In Charge Of Retrieving State Department Benghazi E-Mails!, at investmentwatchblog.com. A cleaner is a person who gets rid of incriminating evidence at the scene of a crime. Former IRS cleaner Kate Duval, is now going to the State Department to apply her craft to the Benghazi e-mails. Read a previous post titled, Hillary and Benghazi: Call In The Cleaners.

Former Obamacare Chief To Lead Top Insurance Lobby, by Paige Winfield Cunningham, at washingtonexaminer.com. The incestuous relationship between government bureaucrats and crony capitalists is here for all to see. Here is a quote, “There is no better individual than Marilyn to lead our industry through the increasingly complex health care transformation that is underway,” So let’s see if I understand this. A bureaucrat makes the health care system more complex for businesses, and then gets hired to help businesses with the complexity of the system. Who says government doesn’t create jobs?

Shocker: Louisiana Shooter Was On Psychotropic Drugs And Was Denied A Gun Permit, at theburningplatform.com.   If psychotropic drugs increase the risk of suicide. It doesn’t seem like a big jump to say that they increase the risk of homicide.

Total Collapse: Greece Reverts To Barter Economy For First Time Since Nazi Occupation, at zerohedge.com. Greece is moving towards barter because citizens can’t get to their money. When you move toward barter you are moving toward a lower standard of living, because transaction costs are higher.

Meanwhile In Venezuela…. The Socialist Paradise Has Arrived, at zerohede.com. Like F. A. Hayek said: The centrally planned socialist road leads to serfdom and poverty.

Jim Grant: Financial Prices Should Be Discovered, Not Administered, at zerohedge.com. Free market prices convey information for how scarce resources can be used in their most efficient way. Artificially set prices convey false information channeling scarce resources to less efficient uses.

Feds Get The Power To Seize Medical Records On ‘Fishing Expeditions’ With No Subpoena From A Judge, by Mark Fitzgibbons, at americanthinker.com. Another example of the violation of citizens fourth amendment rights to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant.

New Male Privilege Tax, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Watch this short video of Mark Dice getting people to sign a petition to pass a “Male Privilege Tax”. Can we survive this kind of ignorance?

How Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees, by Josh Grossman, at mises.org. Student loans have create a couple of things. 1) Debt serfs who will be making payments for years. 2) Young people with meaningless degrees. 3) Rising college prices. Student loans have created a bubble in college education.