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Since That Time
I acknowledge that months have passed since my last post. It was then that I have decided to take a leave from anything libertarian or Austrian economics. I figured that there is something wrong if the only thing I do is bitch about the evils of...
2011-08-31 04:31:04

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The Driving Force of My Liberalism
I think it is proper to discuss the underlying reasons why I support a free society. Long before I learned of the ideas of Mises and Austrian Economics, I was already a supporter of Capitalism. I admire capitalists who, through their hard work and...
2011-02-11 07:18:39

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Lesson 2: Menger and the Founders
This is the second lesson of The Home Study Course in Austrian Economics. After several weeks of not touching this lesson, I returned today to finally finish this. I listened already to the lecture and read the readings. I shall be re-reading the...
2011-02-11 07:15:05

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Lesson 1: What is Austrian Economics?
This is the first lesson in The Home Study Course in Austrian Economics. This course is actually structured to be consumed at the rate of one lesson per week. I only titled this as Lesson 1 instead of Week 1 because I don’t plan to tackle each...
2011-02-11 03:52:22

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My Hour’s Worth
We have heard the statement “Time is gold” many times. It simply means that it is so valuable that it must not be wasted. However, it seems to me that the way this idea is conveyed is vague and divorced from experience. To fix this, I propose that...
2011-02-08 07:28:01

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The Death of My Social Networks
Image via Wikipedia In mid-December, 2010, I decided to deactivate my Facebook personal profile. Initially, I planned to deactivate it starting January 1, 2011, only to deactivate it earlier last Christmas. Fast forward in mid-January, I reactivated it...
2011-01-31 06:18:35

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Why I Wrote a Letter to the Fans of Kiyosaki
During my birthday, December 17, 2010, I felt inspired to finally write on a topic that’s been on my mind for several months: the importance of economic literacy. The end product is my post An Open Letter to the Fans of Robert Kiyosaki in the...
2011-01-23 13:07:46

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An Open Letter to the Fans of Robert Kiyosaki in the Philippines
Cover via Amazon Time flies so fast! I feel it’s just yesterday when I first got exposed to the ideas of Robert Kiyosaki. It happened during the final quarter of 2008, at the peak of the Global Financial Crisis, which resulted from the bursting of the...
2010-12-17 04:14:43

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The Spirit of Entitlement in the University of the Philippines Protests
Protests at UP Diliman and UP Manila The Philippine Government plans to cut even further its subsidies to state universities and colleges next year. On the part of UP, its 2011 budget will only be PhP 5.5 Billion down from PhP 6.9 Billion in 2010....
2010-11-25 22:30:48

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Working on the Home Study Course in Austrian Economics
Image via Wikipedia For the past two years, I have merely studied Austrian Economics through osmosis. I learned it by just reading a few introductory books, poring through some of the treatises, and wading through the Mises Daily articles and archives....
2010-11-14 19:51:31

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On Liberalism and Antiliberalism
A friend asked me regarding the use of the terms libertarian and liberalism. He said that if many libertarians are what was once called liberals, now referred to as classical liberals, why can’t libertarians just use the term liberal; or insist...
2010-11-13 02:23:47

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The Spirit of Entitlement and Its Apparition
0 I think one of the evil spirits that must be exorcised from the minds of many people is what I'll casually call the spirit of entitlement. This is just a fancy term I invented for welfare statism and a person's fanatical worship of the state. This...
2010-11-12 23:00:18

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The Death of NU 107 and Economic Calculation
The last few days have been sad for music fans. 12 am, November 8, 2010, Monday marked the death of the Philippines' only dedicated rock station, NU 107. Some say that NU died because of commercialism and greed. I don't believe too much in such claims....
2010-11-09 04:38:12

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The Demise of the Home of NU Rock
Image via Wikipedia No, this is not another bashing-of-the-state post. This is about my sadness and disappointment on the inevitable transformation [for the worse] of NU 107. From being the home of New Rock, it will become just another JOLOGS station,...
2010-11-05 06:05:13

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Re-reading ‘The Essential von Mises’
I relate my thoughts on re-reading the biography of Ludwig von Mises by Murray Rothbard titled "The Essential von Mises."

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2010-10-25 21:46:10

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Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
I am unearthing gems from the Mises Institute Multimedia files. The whole multimedia files total up to 130 GB. At first, I did not bother downloading them because I have limited hard drive space. But I realize that I can download them piece by piece....
2010-10-25 20:39:43

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Give Me Either Political Liberty or Economic Liberty, But NOT Both?
Image via Wikipedia Last night, I posted in my Facebook status this: If a great company starts messing around and treat consumers badly, this will set its demise. This is how free market capitalism works. When I posted this status, I was reading Chapter...
2010-10-20 23:55:26

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Studying Austrian Economics – Where to Begin
In the last post My Libertarian Agnosticism, I hinted to fact that I have a very limited time right now devoted to studying Austrian Economics. While I have read a few books about it and several articles, I understand that I have barely scratched the...
2010-10-19 11:25:33

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My Libertarian Agnosticism
...Having stated these, I am currently having a sort of libertarian agnosticism as stated earlier. While leaning towards minarchy, I am not decided on which type of libertarian I ought to be. What I only know right now is that a typical libertarian...
2010-10-19 08:03:18

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