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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Capitalism and Freedom http://rspruk.blogspot.com Libertarian Blog that advocates laissez faire economic policies the exposure from fresh air free market thinking. I welcome anyone who is interested in economic issues Category: Blog Directory » Reference Blogs » Economics Hits: 3 Date added: 2006-09-08 23:07:35 Alexa traffic rank: 3,029,540 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast -  Faster than 49% of websites

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Latest blog posts from Capitalism and Freedom

THE POTENTIAL OUTCOME OF OBAMANOMICS
Tom Wilson, a British speechwriter, wrote an opinion (link) in Wall Street Journal, showing incredibly similar parallels between Obama's economic agenda and the economic agenda of Britain's Labour party in Pre-Thatcher years, that turned British economy into the sick man of European economy.Rok... Read more...
Published 4 hours ago

TAX CUTS IN EUROPE
Forbes reports (link) that Hungarian Prime Minister announced the abolition of 4 percent solidarity tax, a unique layer of tax on company profits that used to finance government's welfare expenditures. In addition, the government announced a decrease in corporate tax rate from 18 percent to 16... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

INTERVIEW WITH dr. IGOR MASTEN
Ana Jud has published an excellent interview (link) with dr. Igor Masten discussing politico-economic issues.Rok Spruk is a supply-side economist and a libertarian. He (currently) lives in Slovenia where he studies economics and business. His fields of research are economic growth,... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

KENNETH ROGOFF ON FINANCIAL CRISIS
Kenneth Rogoff of the Harvard University, former chief economist at the IMF, has drawn a perspective on current financial crisis (link) that boosted macroeconomic instability in the U.S and the rest of the world, facing surgining inflation rates (link), asset bubbles and declining output... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

WHAT IS THE COST OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Inside Higher Ed published an interactive article about political correctness by discipline. The article can be read here.Rok Spruk is a supply-side economist and a libertarian. He (currently) lives in Slovenia where he studies economics and business. His fields of research are economic growth,... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

LESSONS FROM MONETARY POLICY: 1930 AND 2007
Martin Feldstein (link) and Barry Eichengreen (link) offer a closer perspective on the comparison of the state of monetary policy at the beginning of the Great Depression and in the light of recent frictions in financial markets.Rok Spruk is a supply-side economist and a libertarian. He... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, PUBLIC CHOICE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF SLOVENIA
I recently listened the serie called "Intelekta" (link) on Radio Slovenia. The topics of the talk was classical liberalism and its direct and indirect effects on economic growth and development. Nobel laureate fromm 1973 and an imminent philosophical and economic thinker, Friedrich August von... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

THE MYTH OF SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS
Edwin M. Truman highlighted the revealed preferences of sovereign wealth fund establishment. The article can be read here.Rok Spruk is a supply-side economist and a libertarian. He (currently) lives in Slovenia where he studies economics and business. His fields of research are economic growth,... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

GERMANY'S GDP DECLINED
German GDP contracted by 0,5 percent as reported by Financial Times (link):"Germany’s economy contracted less than feared in the second quarter but the underlying pace of activity has still dropped sharply... Gross domestic product in Europe’s largest economy declined by 0.5 per cent in the... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

ANOTHER EVIDENCE WHY EU FARM SUBSIDIES ARE DEADLY HARMFUL
EU Observer has recently quoted (link) the study conducted by a team of British scientists showing that, each year, farm subsidies on behalf of EU's common agricultural policy cause strong heart diseases and stroke-related deaths as a consequence of too high nutrition values per se, given the... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

FED INTERVENTION
Allan H. Meltzer explains why Fed should be taken away from investment banks (link):"So what can taxpayers expect from an increase in the Fed's discretionary authority over investment banks? The likely answer is rescues, delays and lax supervision â€" followed by taxpayer-financed bailouts.... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TAX HAVENS
One of the most interesting discussions among the economists and policy experts is a debate about the role of tax havens and offshore destinations that compete with other nations in the areas of taxes, regulation and investor protection. The opponents of tax havens believe that tax havens cause... Read more...
Published 2 months ago