Comments on: Excellent Video Channeling Bastiat

By: Let’s Shed a Tear for those Under-Appreciated Bureaucrats Who Get Lavish Pensions and Live in $700K Homes | International Liberty

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:15:21 +0000

[...] occur when the carpenter and dog walker then have to cut back on their purchases? Maybe we need to take Bastiat’s advice and go break some [...]

By: The Cato Institute Dismantles Paul Krugman « Jacobboyd.com

The Cato Institute Dismantles Paul Krugman « Jacobboyd.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:52:13 +0000

[...] argue that the government should have squandered even more money. Heck, he even asserted that the 9-11 attacks were a form of stimulus and has argued that it would be pro-growth if we faced the threat of an alien [...]

By: Defending Cato from the Predictably Inaccurate Ramblings of Paul Krugman « International Liberty

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:07:03 +0000

By: Don’t Trust Economists, Part II « International Liberty

Don’t Trust Economists, Part II « International Liberty — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:58:18 +0000

[...] key to good economic analysis, as Bastiat explained in the 1800s, is looking at the seen and the unseen. And you don’t have to be an economist to recognize that the secondary and tertiary effects [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 212) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:42:15 +0000

[...] Journal has published some wise observations by a leading French economist (an intellectual heir to Bastiat!), who shares my disdain for the current discussion. Here are some excerpts from Prof. Salin’s [...]

By: The USA must cut spending and balance budget or end up like Greece « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:40:08 +0000

By: Bob Costas needs to think gun control logic through « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:36:16 +0000

[...] the great economist Frederic Bastiat teaches us to look at both direct and indirect effects (or, as he put it, the “seen” and “unseen”), so [...]

By: An IQ Test for Criminals and Liberals « International Liberty

An IQ Test for Criminals and Liberals « International Liberty — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:36:02 +0000

[...] the great economist Frederic Bastiat teaches us to look at both direct and indirect effects (or, as he put it, the “seen” and [...]

By: Price Controls Are Exacerbating the Damage of Hurricane Sandy « International Liberty

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:16:47 +0000

[...] A simple explanation for the stupidity of politicians is that there are more consumers than gas station owners. But I also think this is an example of their illiteracy about what Bastiat referred to as the seen and the unseen. [...]

By: If the Auto Bailout Was a Success, I’d Hate to See What a Failure Looks Like « lessbull.com

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:13:05 +0000

[...] no fun to be an economist. Or, to be more specific, it’s rather frustrating to understand Bastiat’s insight about the “seen” and the “unseen” and to always be asking “at what [...]

By: If the Auto Bailout Was a Success, I’d Hate to See What a Failure Looks Like | Cato @ Liberty

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:02 +0000

By: If the Auto Bailout Was a Success, I’d Hate to See What a Failure Looks Like « International Liberty

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:17:47 +0000

By: Jurisdictional Competition Is Why the West Became Rich While Asia languished | Cato @ Liberty

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:34:49 +0000

[...] Turgot (Bastiat was not the only great French economist) looked at the new nation of the United States and saw the [...]

By: Jurisdictional Competition Is Why the West Became Rich While Asia languished « International Liberty

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:56:13 +0000

[...] Turgot (Bastiat was not the only great French economist) looked at the new nation of the United States and saw the [...]

By: Europe in trouble because of too much spending « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:45:08 +0000

By: Europe’s Crisis Is Because of Too Much Government, Not the Euro Currency « International Liberty

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:31:26 +0000

By: A Cartoon Showing the Logic (or lack thereof) of Keynesian Economics « International Liberty

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:48:23 +0000

[...] To provide a bit of additional background, the cartoon is channeling Bastiat’s broken-window insight that make-work projects don’t create prosperity, as explained in this short video narrated by Tom Palmer. [...]

By: The Small Business Administration Should Be Abolished « International Liberty

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:34:12 +0000

[...] de Rugy then closes with an important insight from Frederic Bastiat (who is probably Veronique’s great great grandfather since I’m only slightly [...]

By: A Futile Economics Lesson for France’s Politicians « International Liberty

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:08 +0000

[...] we look only at direct effects, the answer is yes. But if we channel our inner Bastiat and look at both the seen and the unseen, the answer [...]

By: The French Government’s Moral Depravity and Self-Imposed Fiscal Suicide « International Liberty

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:23:27 +0000

[...] we can safely assume that the great 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat is rolling over in his grave. Classical liberalism is not enjoying a rebirth in [...]

By: Brantley and Brummett: Government needs to stimulate economy « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:52:04 +0000

[...] Yesterday, there were rumors that Krugman stated that it would have been stimulative if the earthquake had been stronger and done more damage, but he exposed this as a prank(though it is understandable that many people — including me, I’m embarrassed to admit — initially assumed it was true since he did write that the 9-11 terrorist attacks boosted growth). [...]

By: Is Obama Really Going to Propose another Keynesian Stimulus? | Whitley County Patriots

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:33:47 +0000

[...] Yesterday, there were rumors that Krugman stated that it would have been stimulative if the earthquake had been stronger and done more damage, but he exposed this as a prank (though it is understandable that many people – including me, I’m embarrassed to admit - initially assumed it was true since he did write that the 9-11 terrorist attacks boosted growth). [...]

By: 2nd stimulus is a bad idea « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

2nd stimulus is a bad idea « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:16:36 +0000

By: » Is Obama Really Going to Propose another Keynesian Stimulus? - Big Government

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:47:35 +0000

[...] Yesterday, there were rumors that Krugman stated that it would have been stimulative if the earthquake had been stronger and done more damage, but he exposed this as a prank (though it is understandable that many people – including me, I’m embarrassed to admit - initially assumed it was true since he did write that the 9-11 terrorist attacks boosted growth). [...]

By: Paul Krugman’s Meets E.T. « International Liberty

Paul Krugman’s Meets E.T. « International Liberty — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:46:05 +0000

[...] committed the “broken-window” fallacy, explained more than 150 years ago by a famous French economist, Frederic [...]

By: Why disasters do not spur economic growth « Public Secrets

Why disasters do not spur economic growth « Public Secrets — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:37:35 +0000

[...] (via International Liberty) [...]

By: Ej Webb/Author CEO

Ej Webb/Author CEO — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:10:05 +0000

I’m a free-lance cartoonist for Ej Webb Inc. magazine and shouldn’t it show how and why the child wanted to brake the glass? Better yet! Show a picture of who created those disturbing eras?

B J Patterson