Showing posts with label John Tamny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Tamny. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2021

John Tamny remains as confused as a thinker and as obtuse as a writer as he has ever been

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John Tamny has made some progress, however. He now admits that some of his views are "fringe". Which is amusing, since we've k...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

It's the libertarian crazies among us who are clueless and spoiled, not the cooks, servers and dishwashers

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"In other words, if they’re farming or working in a mine, they’re doing so by choice. This should be remembered the next time some sp...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Libertarian kook John Tamny of Real Clear Markets twists himself into a pretzel about Katie Hill, writes a convoluted mess about it, as usual

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Rep. Katie Hill recently resigned her congressional seat after, among other things, a romantic relationship with a junior male staffer was ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Libertarian John Tamny displays the anti-intellectualism characteristic of the breed

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Here in "The Beatles And Wealth Inequality: A Reminder That Education Is Irrelevant To Success". It's a veritable cornu...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Real Clear Markets tonight recycles John Tamny's nonsense about gold and the dollar being related

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Hey, if it wasn't convincing six days ago at Forbes, give it another try at Real Clear Markets. That's the meaning of libertaria...
Monday, January 5, 2015

John Tamny of Forbes spends four pages trying to convince us falling oil prices are always due to a rising dollar

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Here , in Forbes: "Falling crude prices ... were a function of a rising dollar that revealed itself in a major decline in the p...
Monday, May 13, 2013

John Tamny's Libertarian Myopia On The Plan B Pill

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John Tamny, libertarian ideologue extraordinaire, asks us to join him in complete denial about reality, here : "[G]overnments don’t nor...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Josh Brown Doesn't Think Too Much Of Your Paper Gold

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Oliver Cromwell And he's not too fond of the real thing sitting right in front of you, either, here : 'It is utterly uninteresting t...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

I Don't Call Sen. Jim DeMint "Demented" For Nothing

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Here he is in all his confused glory: "I think the new debate in the Republican Party needs to be between conservatives and libertaria...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

"The Electorate Always Gets Things Right", Illustrated From The Bible

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"The wisdom of crowds", according to Jude Wanniski, John Tamny and the libertarian quacks of Forbes Magazine, illustrated from the...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Hey John Tamny! Did The Electorate Get It Right Last Night?

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The invisible hand of the electorate and the invisible hand of capitalism cannot be falsified by anything, because they are, well, invisible...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

This Is How Democracy Ends Up

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"The correct decision, what's best for the masses," democratically elected. Why is it that someone always must die for the sak...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Mitt Romney Reaps What He Sows, Or Something

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The liberal President Ronald Reagan once handed down an 11th Commandment: " Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican ....
Monday, July 23, 2012

Make No Mistake: The Libertarians Are The Enemies Of Humanity

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the ideal state of labor under libertarianism Libertarians are the very enemies of living, especially the likes of John Tamny , who doesn...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Libertarian John Tamny Excuses LIBOR Low-Balling Because It Didn't Hurt Anybody

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John Tamny's logic fails on two counts. Throwing out low-balled LIBOR rates along with the high rates, to achieve the average reported, ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

John Tamny Exposes National Review's Conservatism As Monetarist Currency Devaluation

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For Forbes.com, here : Beckworth and Ponnuru . . . seek money creation to achieve economic growth, or to quote them directly, “central banks...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Returning To The Gold Standard, But At What Price?

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John Tamny argues here  for the ten year average price of about $800 the ounce, against Nathan Lewis who would prefer something closer to th...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Safely Out of the Way, John Tamny Decides to Attack Rick Santorum

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In the special pleading voice of one for whom conservatism is only conservatism when it is libertarianism: "Santorum’s candidacy should...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

John Tamny Believes The Mad Dream of Libertarian Ideology

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Briggs forgets his limitations "[A]s humans we’re free to do anything we want so long as our actions don’t infringe on the freedoms of ...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Broadest Tax Base Which Can Possibly Be Imagined Implies a Tax Rate of 6.2%

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Herman Cain's 999 Plan is focusing attention on the perennially perplexing problem of taxation for the American electorate in 2012. His ...