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Amid a horrific financial crisis, all we hear are calls for more of the money-printing, spending and subsidies that created this mess. So I choose my great teacher, Ludwig von Mises, champion of the Austrian School of economics, who taught us how a central bank like the Fed causes booms and busts and how to build prosperity through sound money and economic freedom...
...Poisson distribution!), but he ends it broken-hearted, broken down, and maniacally pissing on a boardroom table. So next time you see Public Piss Guy letting the John Harvard statue have it, just remember: there’s an idealistic and intelligent freshman hidden somewhere in that drunken mess. (I think—he might also just have to pee.) —Patrick R. Chesnut is an outgoing Arts Chair. He hasn’t wet the boardroom in over a year...
...over. The Pakistanis will have to stop giving tacit support and protection to terrorists, especially the Afghan Taliban. The Karzai government will have to end its corruption and close down the drug trade. There are plenty of other reforms necessary - the international humanitarian effort is a shabby, self-righteous mess; some of our NATO allies aren't carrying their share of the military burden - but the war will remain a bloody stalemate at best as long as jihadis come across the border from Pakistan and the drug trade flourishes...
...flurries started last summer as a series of embarrassing revelations. Among them was the fact that Rangel was occupying four rent-controlled apartments simultaneously in upper Manhattan and that his tax returns - Rangel is the chairman of the tax-code-writing House Ways and Means Committee - were such a mess that he was hiring a "forensic auditor" to figure out why he had failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions was the fact that even as he was living in those New York apartments and being...
...Then, to top off what had to be a miserable two days, Paulson had to listen to lectures from a series of Chinese officials about all the additional steps the U.S. must take to solve its economic mess. The U.S. had to stop consuming and start saving, because "global imbalances" were at the root of the financial crisis, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan told Paulson. And, added Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Washington needed to "take all necessary measures to stabilize its economy and the financial market to ensure the security of China's assets and investments...