http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/3264/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/debt_ceiling_default_myth <p>We’ve all heard the news over the past week; Members of congress and the worlds largest news organizations have been hammering the claim that “if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, the federal government will go into default and our credit rating will drop, resulting in through-the-roof taxes and economic armageddon throughout the world!”. Is this true or a myth? The answer is: it’s a myth. And its obvious right on it’s face.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/debt_ceiling_default_myth#comments debt ceiling debt limit Economics Myth News Article Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:43:03 +0000 aoner1 13316 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/overpopulation_perennial_myth <p>Where people are hungry, it is because of war (Somalia, Ethiopia) or government policies that, in the name of modernization and industrialization, penalize farmers by taxing them at prohibitive rates (e.g., Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya), not because population is exceeding the natural limits of what the world can support.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/overpopulation_perennial_myth#comments Aristotle Carthage Ehrlich Food growth Malthus Myth News Article overpopulated overpopulation Plato