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Today, we can only laugh at our ancestors, the book copyists, who were fighting against the printing press, because it was taking their jobs and incomes. Our successors will once laugh at our silly ideas.
Economy
Tax Freedom Day 2013
According to the F. A. Hayek Foundation, total redistribution rate in Slovakia this year is 41.71% of gross domestic product.
We Intentionally Created the Bubble
Let’s be clear. We’ve intentionally blown the biggest government bond bubble in history … We need to be vigilant to the consequences of that bubble deflating more quickly than [we] might otherwise have wanted.
More Centralization
It is interesting as, on the one hand, there is France calling for more centralization and more common policies on the EU level, and on the other hand, President Francois Hollande is able to say: “The European Commission cannot dictate us what we have to do.”
Real Causes of the Financial Crisis
The overwhelming majority of financial crises since the early 1970s has been caused by mistakes in monetary policy.
Energy, Pollution Control and Economic Growth
Real climate policy ignores much of the fundamental messages of economic reasoning. Hence we see huge inefficiencies and small outcomes of climate policy.
We Need Reforms
UK´s Foreign Secretary William Hague, for example, called for cooperation between Britain and Germany to carry out reforms within the European Union.
Demography and Gender Equality : Two Sides of the Same Coin
Grassroots movements established to act in the public’s interest are the very essence of democracy.
Let’s Ban Flavored Tobacco and “The Lord of the Rings”!
Why should an unelected official located somewhere thousands of kilometers away prohibit the tobacco manufacturer from adding even a garlic flavour if he wishes to do so, and why could not a consumer enjoy his or her favourite mint flavour?
