dimanche 31 juillet 2011

Vivre librement en Angleterre avant la 1e guerre mondiale

Living Freely in England a Century Ago :: Daniel Pipes

vendredi 29 juillet 2011

Le mythe de l'armée volontaire - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily

The Myth of the Voluntary Military - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily: "Government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.… Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom."

jeudi 21 juillet 2011

Superman a besoin d'un Agent - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily

Superman Needs an Agent - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily

Volontariat vs travail rémunéré

Nelson Mandela and Volunteerism - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily: "It's typical to say that people in Congress are in the business of 'public service,' but that's ridiculous. The politicians in DC take my money against my will, and spend it on things that I don't want and often consider downright criminal. That's not serving me at all."

mercredi 20 juillet 2011

L'épargne: la clé de voûte du progrès économique et technologique

The Central Role of Saving and Capital Goods - Ludwig von Mises - Mises Daily

George Orwell sur la guerre

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

-George Orwell

lundi 18 juillet 2011

L'historique des métaux précieux en Chine

China's Hard-Money History - Dan O'Connor - Mises Daily: "Over the past few centuries, central banks have secretly imposed a hidden tax on their citizens by printing paper money and destroying the savings of the paper holders."

Planification centrale de l'économie: de la famine à grande échelle

Mass Starvation in North Korea « LewRockwell.com Blog

mercredi 13 juillet 2011

Scurvy, among Other Problems, Went Away - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily

Scurvy, among Other Problems, Went Away - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily: "We should be conscious of the cause-and-effect relationships operating in the world of human action that give rise to the globally extended order we call the market economy, an order fueled by human choices, entrepreneurship, and relentless learning and copying — and kept together by pricing signals, private property, and the freedom to trade. These institutions are what are bestowing miracles on us every day, the Jetsons world that amazes me every day.

We also need to be aware of its opposite, the gargantuan apparatus of compulsion and coercion called the state, which operates on principles that are anachronistic to the core. Its principle is violence, and its contributions to the social order are prisons, economic upheaval, and war. It is lumbering, stupid, and angry as hell, and it is the main drag on the world today. The contrast with the market is overwhelming."

dimanche 10 juillet 2011

L'or: indissociable de la liberté

Gold means freedom – a notion also highlighted by the fact that Lenin,
Mussolini, and Hitler banned private gold ownership at the outset of their dictatorships.
-Ronald Stoeferle

jeudi 7 juillet 2011

Qui dit qu'il n'y a pas de bulle en Chine? Le cas de la station Centrale de Guangzhou

Via Zero Hedge:

Submitted by Tim Staermose of Sovereign Man

Guangzhou South Station: Something Out Of A Zombie Movie

When I left my hotel bound for the new Guangzhou South Station the other day , I didn’t know much about the station– where it was, how far from the hotel, etc. After about 25 or 30 minutes in the cab, I still hadn’t seen any signs for the station and grew concerned that the cabbie was just taking me for a ride.

As we eventually approached the station, I began to understand why it was so far out of town. Clearly, the only way they could find enough contiguous land to build this monstrosity was to go WAY into to the outskirts of the city.

In the end, it was a 27.82 kilometer (17.39 miles) cab ride from my downtown hotel, and took 49 minutes to get there. I know this because Chinese taxis are very efficient and give you a highly detailed receipt.

Guangzhou South Station is absolutely COLOSSAL. By comparison, it is much bigger than any of the 3 international airport terminals in Manila where I live… and I’d say it’s over 8 times larger than the Central Airport Express Station in Hong Kong.

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All of this certainly begs the question– how many more empty buildings and unused train stations can they possibly build? More importantly, what happens to China’s economy when all this fixed asset spending starts to subside?

mardi 5 juillet 2011

La citation du jour

There are 2 ways to sleep well at night: to be ignorant or to be prepared.
-Simon Black