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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jul 15, 2008
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Cato's Johan Norberg has a detailed rebuttal on Naomi Klein's superficial claims about Milton Friedman and free-market policies made in her book, The shock doctrine . Here's a video of Norberg explaining how Ms Klein misrepresents what Friedman said: Also see this follow up video . I...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jul 15, 2008
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Inspired by Bill Gates' speech at the World Economic Forum, someone has created a creative capitalism blog with an impressive list of contributors, ranging from Gates to Buffet to this latest piece from Jagdish Bhagwati . Even the late Milton Friedman makes a reappearance. Do Check...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jun 27, 2008
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Drew Carey in another installment of his series at Reason.tv takes a swing at the U.S. protectionists' (Obama-types) fear mongering over NAFTA.
Something that's rarely understood by protectionist all over the world is that the biggest source of "job losses" is technology, not...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Apr 26, 2008
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Now, they have porn for blind people. Thankfully, the web is not regulated. [ via India Uncut ] ... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Apr 7, 2008
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The Sri Lankan left (and it's modern-day 'mainstram' apologists) often point to 1977, the year when Sri Lanka started liberalizing the economy to describe anything 'bad' to do with Sri Lanka, from moral degradation, the persistence of poverty and occasionally as the root cause of the war....... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Mar 11, 2008
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If you are a socialist, that is. The chart below from Gapminder shows increasing incomes per person at accelerating rates after president JR Jaywardene liberalized the Sri Lankan economy in 1977. Certainly, this isn't good news for the lefties. ( a still pic from gap minder, an awesome...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Feb 28, 2008
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Apparently Airtel , scheduled to start operations in Sri Lanka this year, have run into some trouble . I like Airtel, it's my operator of choice whenever I'm in India, I've got good memories with it. It worked well for me, and i did do some traveling across states in remote moutanes areas. The...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Feb 22, 2008
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Recently the Island carried an article with the same title where the writer (a Kath Noble) goes on to explain the implications of the I ndo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) . Now, I have seen worse articles on trade and economics in the Sri Lankan press, but it’s precisely the more...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Feb 16, 2008
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The Inflation in Sri Lanka is now at about 20%, and the Central Bank e xpects the figures to remain at 16% to 20% at least for the first half of 2008 . It’s getting so unprecedented now, that it’s receiving some attention from international monetary experts . Over in the U.S. too they have...... [view]
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