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steins

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    Comment #3548287

    Just what society needs.. more fat controllers bossing everyone around for some arbitrary 'good'. Maybe some people prefer liver disease to sobriety. Maybe they should be allowed t…

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    Comment #3524136

    Please don't automatically assume the market is falling short here. Many governments including our own play a huge part in manipulating the price of fuels.

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    Comment #3470408

    I think public companies already file this info.. http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

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    Comment #3407846

    Anyone living in an area where a flood is possible.

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    Comment #3407836

    Maybe you should make yourself valuable enough to actually earn 24 days of vacation a year?

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    Comment #3387036

    who is john galt?

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    Comment #3335895

    "Specifically, the President has called for increasing limits on “miniofferings,” allowing “crowdfunding,” and phasing in some requirements for small firms as they go public." They…

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    Comment #3199968

    So if a company is efficient and has to terminate people they will have to pay more taxes? Smart businessmen (with smaller businesses) would just start a new company every year and…

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    Comment #3199930

    re. Cushman: Or maybe some people can move to farms, supplying more farm labor, sending farm worker wages down, and lowering the price of food to close to nothing? Ohh wait... mini…

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    Comment #3199749

    Every tax creates distortions. If the tax break was high enough it would encourage people and corporations with extremely high incomes to hire people for 366 days and then fire the…

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    Comment #3059390

    hey.. I haven't done extensive research, but I have read several articles claiming that saying that mining the materials that go into batteries is a very very dirty process and pol…

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    Comment #2896232

    They are all responsible for placing the idiotic ban on incandescent bulbs to begin with. The federal govt has no business legislating the everyday minutiae of our lives.

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    Comment #2885568

    Prehaps they all benefited, but it seems as if the bailouts benefited the most irresponsible people far more than the rest of society. The banks should have been allowed to fail. T…

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    Comment #2874628

    I use a firefox treetabs plugin that makes trees of tabs vertically on the left side of the monitor. ive had about 50-60 tabs/window with 3 windows open before, while running fireb…

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    Comment #2871274

    Facepalm. I normally love Mark Cubans blog, but this is a terrible idea. If a company cant afford to keep employees it shouldn't hire them. This would be almost as bad as the bailo…

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    Comment #2868670

    those would be pretty easy to solve with a bit of code

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    Comment #2854921

    The problem isn't cash, its capital goods, and flooding the system with cash will just cause damage to companies who are to small to move fast enough to acquire large amounts of th…

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    Comment #2854908

    For an example of 100% unemployment watch Idiocracy.

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    Comment #2854556

    There is a little bit of good information in there, but his theories of value are terrible. When you read this do yourself a favor and research the subjective theory of value as we…

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    Comment #2854545

    Yet surprisingly it explains the shitstorm we have today better than most textbooks based on monetarist, keynesian, or efficient market theorists.

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    Comment #2854533

    and 1 more source: http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf

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    Comment #2854523

    mises.org has a lot of economic and political theory, and it ties both together rather well.

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    Comment #2853967

    I was about to say the same thing :P