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hipotecaria'/><category term='paz'/><category term='individualismo'/><category term='capitalismo'/><category term='poemas'/><category term='TLC'/><category term='Vargas Llosa'/><category term='Farc'/><category term='fed'/><category term='El Tiempo'/><category term='libertad economica'/><category term='tierra'/><category term='ambientalismo radical'/><category term='politica'/><category term='selección pública'/><category term='colombia'/><category term='USA'/><category term='pluralismo'/><category term='charlton heston'/><category term='Citas'/><category term='corporativismo'/><category term='regulación'/><category term='Hector Lavoe'/><category term='Ingrid Betancourt'/><category term='Politica Colombiana'/><category term='guerra'/><category term='sociedad'/><category term='liberalismo'/><category term='mercado laboral'/><category term='Raul Reyes'/><category term='Marcha 4 de Marzo'/><category term='agua'/><category term='control de precios'/><category term='gobierno colombiano'/><category term='grupos de interes'/><category term='libertad'/><category term='samper'/><category term='Carlos Gaviria'/><category term='Yidis Medina'/><category term='burocracia'/><category term='acuerdo humanitario'/><category term='innovación'/><category term='economia'/><category term='separación de poderes'/><category term='autoritarismo'/><category term='Uribe'/><category term='blogger'/><category term='fascismo'/><category term='crisis diplomatica marzo 2008'/><category term='etica'/><category term='Musica'/><category term='gacetilla'/><category term='control de sustancias'/><category term='Rafael Correa'/><category term='intelectuales'/><title type='text'>Liberal Colombiano</title><subtitle type='html'>-"Ninguna concentración de poder es revolucionaria"
Lema Anarquista,  

-"Creemos que la libertad y la justicia marchan juntas o no marchan"
Eduardo Galeano</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00932124910478068601</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>763</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6779582408884541812</id><published>2009-12-05T05:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T05:24:50.307-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Reflexión de dia</title><summary type='text'>"The ultimate constraint that we all face is knowledge -- what we know and don't know. The knowledge problem is pervasive and by no means trivial as hinted at by just a few examples. You've purchased a house. Was it the best deal you could have gotten? Was there some other house you could have purchased that 10 years later would not have needed extensive repairs or was in a community with more </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6779582408884541812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6779582408884541812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/12/reflexion-de-dia.html' title='Reflexión de dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6923432923892490998</id><published>2009-12-05T04:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T05:02:36.765-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciencia política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teoría política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desigualdad'/><title type='text'>La injusticia de la desigualdad actual</title><summary type='text'>A propósito del último libro de Amartya Sen,  Alejandro Gaviria destacaba las críticas en la reseña de Herbert Gintis (en la página de Amazon.com del libro):"I have two major criticisms of this book. The first is that Sen has not updated his model of the individual or his critique of the neoclassical model of economic man since his important contributions of thirty or forty years ago. You would </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6923432923892490998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6923432923892490998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/12/la-injusticia-de-la-desigualdad-actual.html' title='La injusticia de la desigualdad actual'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7779137623076903546</id><published>2009-11-15T04:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T10:28:52.346-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><title type='text'>Uribe y Nuñez</title><summary type='text'>Efectivamente,como escribe Alejandro Gaviria, Uribe ha manifestado varias veces su admiración por Nuñez y por sus ideas.  Y es que las similitudes entre Uribe y Nuñez son varias:  -Hacen carrera en el partido liberal(Nuñez fue incluso liberal rádical) pero terminan llegando al poder y gobernando con conservadores y como conservadores. Es decir ambos llegan al poder como disidentes del liberalismo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7779137623076903546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7779137623076903546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/11/uribe-y-nunez.html' title='Uribe y Nuñez'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2635255475075830975</id><published>2009-07-25T11:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T11:39:57.305-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='republica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><title type='text'>Congreso desobiente</title><summary type='text'>Considero positivo que el congreso haya "desobedecido" a Uribe.Fue un ejemplo de independencia de la rama legislativa, como pocos en Colombia y muchas democracias.Seguramente algunos dirán que simplemente la ambición burocrática o de poder  de la clase política en el congreso fue lo que produjo ese resultado.Pero en realidad el "sistema" (el estado de derecho, la república, la división del poder </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2635255475075830975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2635255475075830975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/07/congreso-desobiente.html' title='Congreso desobiente'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8414809219634319824</id><published>2009-07-20T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-20T09:12:23.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociedad'/><title type='text'>Homo homini lupus</title><summary type='text'>Recientemente he estado pensando cuanta razón tenía Hobbes al afirmar que "el hombre es un lobo para el hombre"Entre mas analizo los fenomenos sociales y/o el comportamiento de las personas mas llego a la conclusión que parecería que estuvieramos programados para explotarnos los unos a los otros.Gran parte del juego político y gran parte del comportamiento social de las personas creo que se </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8414809219634319824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8414809219634319824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/07/homo-homini-lupus.html' title='Homo homini lupus'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-525515167479595413</id><published>2009-07-07T06:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T06:11:06.857-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planificación Centralizada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita del dia</title><summary type='text'>"be wary of the notion that smart people can solve any problem if they just try hard enough."David Ignatius comentando sobre la vida de Robert McNamara, fallecido el dia de ayer.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/525515167479595413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/525515167479595413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/07/cita-del-dia.html' title='Cita del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6739400732685257745</id><published>2009-07-04T13:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T13:52:50.155-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='calentamiento global'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cambio climatico'/><title type='text'>Silenciando escepticos</title><summary type='text'>Tal parece que la administración Obama ha intentado silenciar a un escéptico de las políticas para controlar el calentamiento global.El escéptico llamado Alan Carlin (ver su página aquí) escribió un informe contradiciendo las creencias ya establecidas sobre el calentamiento global.Vale la pena leer el informe. Es largo, un poco técnico, pero sin duda controversial.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6739400732685257745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6739400732685257745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/07/silenciando-escepticos.html' title='Silenciando escepticos'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6467957689399450830</id><published>2009-06-09T03:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T03:14:11.729-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='europa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estado de  bienestar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>El origen del Estado de Bienestar Europeo</title><summary type='text'>No fue por razones ideológicas como muchos piensan:"During the long boom period, 1945-73, there was high sustained economic growth, particularly in France, Germany, and Italy, which were then the economic motors of Western Europe. Over those years, practices developed of essentially bribing the workers. This had a clear political background. The European right was politically discredited by its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6467957689399450830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6467957689399450830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/06/el-origen-del-estado-de-bienestar.html' title='El origen del Estado de Bienestar Europeo'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8080103048481744399</id><published>2009-06-07T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-07T19:28:23.321-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='democracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Curiosidades de la democracia</title><summary type='text'>1.Mientras en Estados Unidos la crisis económica parece haber contribuido al triunfo de la centro-izquierda, en Europa parece estar contribuyendo a la derecha, incluso la extrema.2. Dice la revista Semana: "Tanto Lucho Garzón como Gustavo Petro y Carlos Gaviria gozan de mayor popularidad en los estratos 5 y 6, que entre el resto de la población. En cambio, el que sí gusta en los estratos 1 y 2 es</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8080103048481744399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8080103048481744399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/06/curiosidades-de-la-democracia.html' title='Curiosidades de la democracia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8435968215846260444</id><published>2009-05-28T05:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T05:30:54.087-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medios'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Las mentiras de la guerra fría y la política</title><summary type='text'>Navengando en el Wall Street Journal me encontré esta curiosa e inquietante noticia:"The past can never be predicted, and perhaps never more so than when it comes to the German left. Two years ago, we learned that Nobel Laureate Günter Grass -- the literary scourge of all things fascist, especially America -- had himself been a member of the Waffen SS. Now comes another zinger that casts the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8435968215846260444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8435968215846260444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/05/las-mentiras-de-la-guerra-fria-y-la.html' title='Las mentiras de la guerra fría y la política'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8999384828878686640</id><published>2009-04-26T10:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T10:06:19.864-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><title type='text'>Jaime Garzón y Uribe</title><summary type='text'>Videos Jaime Garzón opinando sobre Uribe hace 12 años:</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8999384828878686640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8999384828878686640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/jaime-garzon-y-uribe.html' title='Jaime Garzón y Uribe'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8298531222442218953</id><published>2009-04-05T07:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T07:02:56.162-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samuel Moreno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bogota'/><title type='text'>La mentira de la semana de Samuel Moreno...</title><summary type='text'>ya quedo desmentida...Hasta se inventa datos metereológicos con tal de ocultar la ineptitud de la burocracia distrital.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8298531222442218953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8298531222442218953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-mentira-de-la-semana-de-samuel.html' title='La mentira de la semana de Samuel Moreno...'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8966385644235729707</id><published>2009-04-04T06:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-04T07:00:18.861-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tecnocracia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><title type='text'>La tecnocracia "desinteresada" y "altruista"</title><summary type='text'>La tecnocracia obamista no tiene problemas apoyar mas y mas rescates a Wall Street pero obvio...si han recibido millones y millones de dolares de ese sector económico.Tecnocracia desinteresada y altruista (comparada con todos estos políticos corruptos)..si claro..solo en los libros de texto de economía.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8966385644235729707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8966385644235729707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-tecnocracia-desinteresada-y_04.html' title='La tecnocracia &quot;desinteresada&quot; y &quot;altruista&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4983714728756619371</id><published>2009-04-04T05:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-04T07:10:34.880-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guerra contra las drogas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><title type='text'>Campaña "Porte su dosis de personalidad"</title><summary type='text'>"Liberal Colombiano" se una a la campaña llamada "Porte su dosis de personalidad" para defender el derecho al uso de estupefacientes ("drogas") y en particular para evitar que el congreso apruebe la ley promovida por "el caudillo" para penalizar la dosis personal.Aunque personalmente no apoyo el uso de drogas, es natural para mí defender el derecho de cada individuo a consumir lo que le </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4983714728756619371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4983714728756619371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/campana-porte-su-dosis-de-personalidad.html' title='Campaña &quot;Porte su dosis de personalidad&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/Sddft9p2gwI/AAAAAAAAAQc/YR9oJHnsWf8/s72-c/dosispersonalidad.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4615700968918611062</id><published>2009-03-30T17:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T18:01:18.263-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><title type='text'>Por que Uribe continua arriba en las encuestas?</title><summary type='text'>Por la torpeza de la oposición al regalarle todo el discurso anti-farc, que es centrista, no derechista.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4615700968918611062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4615700968918611062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/por-que-uribe-continua-arriba-en-las.html' title='Por que Uribe continua arriba en las encuestas?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7647031261277639364</id><published>2009-03-29T18:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T12:44:50.484-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paternalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><title type='text'>El paternalismo Uribista</title><summary type='text'>Alejandro Gaviria escribe sobre el paternalismo del caudillo:""Aspiro a ser presidente sin vanidad de peor… Miro a mis compatriotas hoy más con ojos de padre de familia que de político”, escribió hace ya siete años el entonces (y todavía) candidato Álvaro Uribe Vélez. El presidente Uribe dejó entrever desde su primera campaña sus inclinaciones paternalistas, su idea de despojarse de los disfraces</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7647031261277639364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7647031261277639364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/el-paternalismo-uribista.html' title='El paternalismo Uribista'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7627912071651004814</id><published>2009-03-24T20:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T20:24:52.952-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><title type='text'>Testimonios sobre la causa de la crisis</title><summary type='text'>"After Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan reduced interest rates at the start of the decade, banks borrowedAfter Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan reduced interest rates at the start of the decade, banks borrowed inexpensively to buy long-term assets including subprime mortgage securities, said Michael Aronstein, Oscar Gruss &amp; Son Inc.’s chief investment strategist.“When liquidity </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7627912071651004814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7627912071651004814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/testimonios-sobre-la-causa-de-la-crisis.html' title='Testimonios sobre la causa de la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-578588722818466658</id><published>2009-03-24T19:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T19:42:01.151-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>Se acaba la obamanía?</title><summary type='text'> Esta gráfica, del sitio web de la encuestadora Rasmussen, muestra en verde la tendencia de los que apoyan fuertemente a Obama y en rojo los que desaprueban fuertemente.Como se ve en la gráfica los que lo apoyan fuertemente han caído unos 10 puntos desde el 20 de Enero(día de la posesión de Obama) pero los que los desaprueban fuertemente han aumentado casi 20 puntos.En conclusión la luna de miel </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/578588722818466658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/578588722818466658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/se-acaba-la-obamania.html' title='Se acaba la obamanía?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/ScmX_hIJZaI/AAAAAAAAAQU/nFTHH7d-bLM/s72-c/obama_index_march_24_2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4981756873955638895</id><published>2009-03-11T18:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:17:29.071-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>El problema con los economistas</title><summary type='text'>Ya salió un paper explicando porque la mayoría de los economistas no previeron la crisis.La hipotesis no es nueva:"The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold. In our view, this lack of understanding is due to a misallocation of research </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4981756873955638895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4981756873955638895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/el-problema-con-los-economistas.html' title='El problema con los economistas'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3284919934141364735</id><published>2009-03-08T19:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T19:47:15.623-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crecimiento economico'/><title type='text'>La ideología "desarrollista" de los economistas</title><summary type='text'>Recientemente  escribí  sobre el desarrollismo y coincidencialmente me encontré hoy con esta excelente reflexión de Murray Rothbard:" In recent years economists and journalists alike have been heavily emphasizing a new concept—“growth,” and much eco­nomic writing is engaged in a “numbers game” on what per­centage, or “rate of growth,” “we” should have next year or in the next decade. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3284919934141364735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3284919934141364735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/la-ideologia-desarrollista-de-los.html' title='La ideología &quot;desarrollista&quot; de los economistas'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8346335989910571259</id><published>2009-03-07T22:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T22:59:00.109-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='historia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Esta el Estado declinando?</title><summary type='text'>Eso dice Martin van Creveld, profesor de historia de la Herew University y autor de el libro  "The Rise and Decline of the State":"Somewhere between 1945 and 1975, the type of political construct known as the state and characterized, above all, by the separation between the ruler and the organization peaked and may have gone into decline. As previously, this process was not the making of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8346335989910571259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8346335989910571259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/esta-el-estado-declinando.html' title='Esta el Estado declinando?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4217511470928689816</id><published>2009-03-07T06:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T22:48:18.409-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Links variados</title><summary type='text'>1. Las triquinuelas de Obama I2. Las contradicciones del Estado Colombiano (por un lado pico y placa y mayores impuestos de rodamiento, por otro lado subsidios para prestamos de compra de vehiculos)3. Una nueva palabra en el diccionario: Obamatons4. Un cambio estructural detras de la perdida masiva de empleos en Estados Unidos?5. Mutualismo.org, blog libertario anti-capitalista</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4217511470928689816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4217511470928689816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/links-variados.html' title='Links variados'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6764835644409972658</id><published>2009-03-05T17:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T06:16:51.187-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='individualismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociedad libre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crecimiento economico'/><title type='text'>La prosperidad es cuestión de valores?</title><summary type='text'>Eso parece concluir la regresión dibujada en estas gráficas publicadas por el economista William Easterly (experto en desarrollo):Sin embargo, la existencia de  "valores individualistas" no implica necesariamente la existencia de menos estado. De hecho, la evidencia histórica sugiere que todos los paises que se desarrollaron tuvieron cierto tipo de intervencionismo estatal. Aunque claramente no </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6764835644409972658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6764835644409972658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/la-prosperidad-es-cuestion-de-valores.html' title='La prosperidad es cuestión de valores?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/SbCEDFlYqJI/AAAAAAAAAQE/vHw5ELGT2rU/s72-c/Democracy+vs+Autonomy+BMP+Border.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2790083906328929029</id><published>2009-03-03T03:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T03:55:18.723-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politica Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='parapolitica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PDA'/><title type='text'>Claudia Lopez quiere el centro</title><summary type='text'>Claudia Lopez escribió otra columna brillante explicando que la mejor (yo diría que la menos mala) opción presidencial en el 2010 sería el centro no la derecha uribista ni la izquierda "revolucionaria" (yo la llamaría estatista-chavista).Lo mejor es que Claudia Lopez efectivamente entiende la conformación de las diferentes fuerzas políticas y la realidad de sus posiciones:"El Polo Democrático es </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2790083906328929029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2790083906328929029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/03/claudia-lopez-quiere-el-centro.html' title='Claudia Lopez quiere el centro'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2843884117570081420</id><published>2009-02-25T08:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T19:31:44.766-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>Otra mentira de Obama</title><summary type='text'>Otra mentira que le pilla al nuevo gran líder del mundo libre, Obama IActualización: David Brooks comenta lo que esta sucediendo con la administración de Obama:"President Obama has concentrated enormous power on a few aides in the West Wing of the White House. These aides are unrolling a rapid string of plans: to create three million jobs, to redesign the health care system, to save the auto </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2843884117570081420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2843884117570081420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/otra-mentira-de-obama.html' title='Otra mentira de Obama'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-323894341448776882</id><published>2009-02-24T16:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T16:51:17.886-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TLC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libre comercio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hillary clinton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad economica'/><title type='text'>La hipocresía gringa sobre el TLC</title><summary type='text'>La hipocresía gringa en acción.Para los que creen que las razones de los democratas para oponerse al TLC tienen algo ver con motivos humanitarios.Por si acaso, vale la pena aclara que ese tratado, aunque tiene sus aspectos positivos,  realmente no es libre comercio y por el contrario incrementa el proteccionismo con mas  "propiedad intelectual" a medicinas por ejemplo.Creo que en últimas es mejor</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/323894341448776882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/323894341448776882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-hipocresia-gringa-sobre-el-tlc.html' title='La hipocresía gringa sobre el TLC'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3637748897043710713</id><published>2009-02-24T04:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T05:05:55.030-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pensamientos Liberales'/><title type='text'>Pensamientos liberales del dia</title><summary type='text'>"... as all history informs us, there has been in every State &amp; Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing &amp; governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3637748897043710713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3637748897043710713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/pensamientos-liberales-del-dia.html' title='Pensamientos liberales del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1165128919174976843</id><published>2009-02-23T18:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T18:18:11.651-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capitalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Keynes'/><title type='text'>Links variados</title><summary type='text'>1. Tio Sam necesita que el dragón le siga prestando2. La receta del desastre: la formula que mató a Wall Street3. Keynes no era Keynesiano4. El origen del termino capitalismo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1165128919174976843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1165128919174976843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/links-variados.html' title='Links variados'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2722949201320651216</id><published>2009-02-23T17:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T17:17:03.382-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capitalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Recordatorio del dia</title><summary type='text'>"Banks, at least the behemoths, were public-private partnerships before the crisis. Deposit insurance, access to the Fed's lending, and the implicit (now explicit) government guarantee for banks "too big to fail" all constituted a system of financial corporatism. It must be ended not extended."GERALD P. O'DRISCOLL JR en el Wall Street Journal</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2722949201320651216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2722949201320651216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/recordatorio-del-dia.html' title='Recordatorio del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6284960357067323420</id><published>2009-02-23T17:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T17:12:38.191-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bancos centrales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><title type='text'>Que es lo que esta haciendo Obama y la Fed?</title><summary type='text'>Jeffrey Sachs lo explica  de manera fácil:"President Barack Obama’s economic team is now calling for an unprecedented stimulus of large budget deficits and zero interest rates to counteract the recession.  These policies may work in the short term but they threaten to produce still greater crises within a few years.  Our recovery will be faster if short-term policies are put within a medium-term </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6284960357067323420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6284960357067323420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/que-es-lo-que-esta-haciendo-obamay-la.html' title='Que es lo que esta haciendo Obama y la Fed?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7475123625285948029</id><published>2009-02-23T03:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T03:57:53.074-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bogota'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>"Hecha la ley.........."</title><summary type='text'>"Hecha una ley estupida....hecha la trampa"El Estado con sus permanentes prohibiciones solo termina convirtiendonos en "delincuentes" que  creamos negocios clandestinos, "underground", en el "mercado negro".Las prohibiciones absurdas son el refugio de una clase política autoritaria y sin imaginación.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7475123625285948029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7475123625285948029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/hecha-la-ley.html' title='&quot;Hecha la ley..........&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4651579942338118623</id><published>2009-02-22T17:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T18:02:27.442-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='violencia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrorismo'/><title type='text'>Palabras anti-Farc del dia</title><summary type='text'>Nada menos que del auto-proclamado marxista Jose Saramago, premio nobel de paz:"Que si el secuestro y la muerte son los métodos para cambiar la sociedad, las Farc no nos ofrecen más que lo que el poder ha venido haciendo siempre, a lo largo de la historia: ejercer fuerza contra los débiles. Actuar como en las guerras medievales, como en todas las guerras, en las que mueren los soldados rasos de </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4651579942338118623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4651579942338118623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/palabras-anti-farc-del-dia.html' title='Palabras anti-Farc del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1126166133069291519</id><published>2009-02-22T17:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T17:57:06.036-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estado de  bienestar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>Sobre los sistemas de aseguramiento de salud</title><summary type='text'>"As John Stossel goes over in Bad Medecine (21 SEP 2007, NY Sun), insurance is the worst way to pay for medical care invented. Prior to the war-time subsidies via tax-code, Americans looked after their own health care directly. Most individuals went uninsured and some purchased forms of what today would be considered 'catastrophic care' plans, although most would fall under the 'accidental death </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1126166133069291519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1126166133069291519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/sobre-los-sistemas-de-aseguramiento-de.html' title='Sobre los sistemas de aseguramiento de salud'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5495374975314245915</id><published>2009-02-18T07:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T07:27:38.838-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad economica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pensamientos Liberales'/><title type='text'>Pensamiento liberal del dia</title><summary type='text'>"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5495374975314245915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5495374975314245915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/pensamiento-liberal-del-dia.html' title='Pensamiento liberal del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-779618106222370754</id><published>2009-02-14T20:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T21:00:46.898-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='individualismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derechos individuales'/><title type='text'>Sobre el individualismo</title><summary type='text'>El individualismo frecuentemente es confundido con egoísmo o con vivir de forma asocial o incluso anti-social.No es el caso. Individualismo simplemente implica respecto por la dignidad del individuo, por sus derechos.En realidad es el colectivismo el que es anti-social. Como lo explica Charles Johnson:"Individualism is not a philosophical rationale for antisocial attitudes or for indifference or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/779618106222370754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/779618106222370754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/sobre-el-individualismo.html' title='Sobre el individualismo'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-765245674873799846</id><published>2009-02-14T08:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T09:03:28.309-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Los tres mayores problemas económicos del pais</title><summary type='text'>Alejandro Gaviria en la revista Dinero resume los que el cree son los tres mayores problemas económicos del pais: falta de empleo, mala calidad de la  salud pese a aumento de gasto y rezago en la infraestructura y/o falta de ejecución del gobierno en ese frente.A mi juicio las posibles  causas de estos tres problemas (no entró a juzgar sin en realidad son los tres mayores) son respectivamente:1. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/765245674873799846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/765245674873799846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/los-tres-mayores-problemas-economicos.html' title='Los tres mayores problemas económicos del pais'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8902135551484390214</id><published>2009-02-13T04:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T04:44:20.326-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impuestos'/><title type='text'>"Por que lloran los niños?"</title><summary type='text'>"Bienaventurados los niños porque ellos heredaran la deuda nacional": </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8902135551484390214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8902135551484390214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/por-que-lloran-los-ninos.html' title='&quot;Por que lloran los niños?&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/SZVqluWa8TI/AAAAAAAAAP0/4WK-avRirWk/s72-c/taxcuts1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3678368761906320379</id><published>2009-02-02T18:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T19:07:04.288-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><title type='text'>La mejor defensa de mercado...</title><summary type='text'>que he leído hoy:"A lot of global growth during the boom came in countries where the government owned or influenced the domestic banking sector and thus influenced the domestic allocation of credit. And policies that kept exchange rates lower than they otherwise would also indirectly encouraged private investment in those countries export sectors as well as discouraging investment in the export </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3678368761906320379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3678368761906320379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-mejor-defensa-de-mercado.html' title='La mejor defensa de mercado...'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2272918079470171414</id><published>2009-02-02T18:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T18:52:21.869-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><title type='text'>Por qué tantos jovenes no encuentran trabajo?</title><summary type='text'>En la edición de mañana el diario Portafolio publica una noticia sobre el desempleo entre los jovenes (18 a 26 años):"La tasa de desocupación en este rango etáreo llegó a 28,9 por ciento en el 2006. Los jóvenes están en el peor de los mundos del mercado laboral: son casi la mitad de los desempleados y no alcanzan a ser la cuarta parte de los ocupados.Según las últimas cifras del Dane, del </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2272918079470171414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2272918079470171414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/02/por-que-tantos-jovenes-no-encuentran.html' title='Por qué tantos jovenes no encuentran trabajo?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6988825251600739082</id><published>2009-01-31T07:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-31T07:22:18.232-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impuestos'/><title type='text'>Colombia es el pais del absurdo.</title><summary type='text'>Colombia es el pais del absurdo.Al paso que va la gasolina extra va a ser mas barata que la corriente.Ayer la refinería de cartagena anunció que le bajará 600 pesos a la extra (ya le había bajado 1000  pesos en Enero) quedando así los precios(de refineria no de gasolinera que incluye los margenes del mayorista, de la gasolinera y los impuestos):3.956,53 la corriente4.056,53 la extraSolamente 100 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6988825251600739082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6988825251600739082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/01/colombia-es-el-pais-del-absurdo.html' title='Colombia es el pais del absurdo.'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2632222213408534672</id><published>2009-01-18T11:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T11:17:57.909-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cuba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><title type='text'>Sobre las revoluciones</title><summary type='text'>Esto escribe Yoani, del blog Generación Y:"Mientras se preparan extensos dossiers sobre los cincuenta años de la Revolución Cubana, pocos se preguntan si lo celebrado es el cumpleaños de una criatura viva o sólo el aniversario de algo que ocurrió. Las revoluciones no duran medio siglo, les advierto a los que me preguntan. Terminan por devorarse a sí mismas y excretarse en autoritarismo, control e</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2632222213408534672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2632222213408534672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2009/01/sobre-las-revoluciones.html' title='Sobre las revoluciones'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2584867526413412164</id><published>2008-12-06T01:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-06T01:27:54.956-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Citas del dia</title><summary type='text'>Del siempre muy citable Thomas Sowell:"Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis under Hitler. It is only when you are able to do things that other people don't approve that you are free."</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2584867526413412164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2584867526413412164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/12/citas-del-dia.html' title='Citas del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3086039476447539435</id><published>2008-12-06T00:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-06T01:25:19.403-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>Obama y el mito de  las pequeñas donaciones</title><summary type='text'>Desde hace meses empezó a circular en los medios la idea de que la campaña de Obama se financiaba con pequeñas donaciones (que según los expertos en el tema son aquellas menores a 200 dolares).Pues bien, era un mito (así como que Obama era el cambio). Lo descubrió la organización independiente y no-partidista llamada "campaign institute reform". Estos son algunos apartes del reporte:"REALITY </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3086039476447539435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3086039476447539435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-y-el-mito-de-los-las-pequeas.html' title='Obama y el mito de  las pequeñas donaciones'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3131949256201799946</id><published>2008-12-02T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T10:02:25.928-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociedad libre'/><title type='text'>Cita del dia</title><summary type='text'>"Some may consider freedom may bring chaos to a society.  It is in fact true for a society there is no freedom currently, freedom at first may bring some chaos to such society.  Societies without freedom under a strong leader may first seem to be in order and people may seem to be happy at first sight but in fact there is an underlying unhappiness hidden where there is no freedom.   Only a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3131949256201799946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3131949256201799946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/12/cita-del-dia.html' title='Cita del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6693351367920441321</id><published>2008-12-01T10:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T10:38:56.108-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colombia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberalismo'/><title type='text'>"El ultimo radical"</title><summary type='text'>Interesante entrevista  al famoso rector de la universidad Externado de Colombia, Dr. Fernando Hinestrosa.Pocas veces veo una entrevista en la prensa nacional donde se refleje mi pensamiento.Aunque me pregunto si el Dr. Hinestrosa practicara lo que dice en la universidad que dirige.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6693351367920441321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6693351367920441321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/12/el-ultimo-radical.html' title='&quot;El ultimo radical&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8436185527960872018</id><published>2008-11-19T03:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T03:46:53.866-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seguridad social'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>No hay desayuno gratis</title><summary type='text'>La realidad de la medicina estatal en el reino unido, el tipo de modelo "salud universal" que quieren imponernos aquí en Colombia:"There is a view that all treatments should be available. Unfortunately, that's not possible,'' said Peter Littlejohns, NICE's clinical and public health director. ``There is a limited pot of money.''He said the four cancer drugs provide a ``marginal benefit at quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8436185527960872018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8436185527960872018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-hay-desayuno-gratis.html' title='No hay desayuno gratis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4124880847035686627</id><published>2008-11-08T15:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T16:19:24.732-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>El "buen Obama"</title><summary type='text'>He estado leyendo con detenimiento el programa o "plataforma" política de Obama. He encontrado buenas (o no tan malas ) ideas que vale la pena destacar teniendo en cuenta que estos son solo promesas:1. Impuestos:El  programa de Obama propone varios recortes o deducciones de impuestos tanto a personas como negocios:Promete eliminar impuestos a las ganancias de capital de pequeños y nuevos negocios</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4124880847035686627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4124880847035686627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/el-buen-obama.html' title='El &quot;buen Obama&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5149911242089938422</id><published>2008-11-05T19:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T19:21:56.134-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bogota'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PDA'/><title type='text'>La chambonada de los semaforos</title><summary type='text'>Que tal la chambonada del secretario de movilidad del distrito. Cancelaron el contrato de ETB para el mantenimiento de los semaforos en Junio sin tener un reemplazo inmediato.Hoy estamos a noviembre y la red de semaforos presenta fallas en un 40% creando un caos en las vias.Que no sorprenda la caida de la popularidad de Samuel Moreno.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5149911242089938422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5149911242089938422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/la-chambonada-de-los-semaforos.html' title='La chambonada de los semaforos'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1193745906700921304</id><published>2008-11-04T12:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T12:07:40.331-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad economica'/><title type='text'>Carta de un pequeño empresario a Obama</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Obama,Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me "Cory the well driller". I</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1193745906700921304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1193745906700921304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/carta-de-un-pequeo-empresario-obama.html' title='Carta de un pequeño empresario a Obama'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6416045319500509168</id><published>2008-11-04T02:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T03:08:58.370-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bancos centrales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><title type='text'>Links variados sobre la burbuja y la crisis</title><summary type='text'>1. Monetary Policy and Mussaism: We Economists Were Wrong2. Bubble of Bubbles Due to Asset Inflation:Morgan Stanley Says Bubbles Will Likely Burst Soon 3.Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened4. Debt and Delusion5. The Great Inflation6. The Central (Banking) Importance of Asset Inflation</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6416045319500509168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6416045319500509168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/links-variados-sobre-la-burbuja-y-la.html' title='Links variados sobre la burbuja y la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5632782758359428329</id><published>2008-11-03T10:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T10:23:17.875-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita preocupante del dia</title><summary type='text'>"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."Norman Thomas. Fuene: aqui.Creo que esta cita da una explicación de muchos cambios en las ultimas decadas, promovidos por personas, supuestamente del centro del </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5632782758359428329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5632782758359428329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/11/cita-preocupante-del-dia.html' title='Cita preocupante del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1676403820734923869</id><published>2008-10-28T17:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T17:34:34.129-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Los siete pecados capitales de la crisis</title><summary type='text'> Fuente: Steve Breen</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1676403820734923869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1676403820734923869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/los-siete-pecados-capitales-de-la.html' title='Los siete pecados capitales de la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/SQevVFEz0wI/AAAAAAAAAPI/75v3ne8BXOk/s72-c/sevendeadlysins1.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8542952639089342670</id><published>2008-10-28T12:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T12:18:29.963-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bancos centrales'/><title type='text'>Los reyes filosofos de la FED</title><summary type='text'>Brad Delong comenta la causa de la crisis:"The current financial crisis has its roots in Greenspan's decision to keep interest rates very low in 2002 and 2003 to head off the danger of a deflation-induced double-dip recession, and his subsequent decision that the costs of cleaning up after a housing bubble were likely to be less than the costs of the high unemployment that would be generated by a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8542952639089342670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8542952639089342670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/los-reyes-filosofos-de-la-fed.html' title='Los reyes filosofos de la FED'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5896501955511951942</id><published>2008-10-26T06:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T06:40:55.242-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chavez'/><title type='text'>Graficas del dia</title><summary type='text'>Declinacion de la produccion de petroleo en la era Chavez:Declinacion de la produccion de petroleo en la era Chavez:Grafica del origen de la estructura de deuda que condujo a la crisis:</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5896501955511951942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5896501955511951942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/graficas-del-dia.html' title='Graficas del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/SQRxx85audI/AAAAAAAAAO4/yFVn8IMwRJo/s72-c/Chavezoil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1106002167783584056</id><published>2008-10-26T05:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T05:11:42.426-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='europa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Europa y la crisis</title><summary type='text'>Los europeos han quedo culpa al  supuesto "capitalismo salvaje" de los gringos y su supuesta "falta de regulacion" por el origen de la crisis.Sin embargo, se sabe ya que los bancos alemanes estan sobreexpuestos  a deudas de paises como Islandia o España, fuertemente golpeados por la crisis.Y se ha sabido que los bancos europeos tambien estaban fuertemente endeudados y eran unos de los grandes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1106002167783584056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1106002167783584056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/europa-y-la-crisis.html' title='Europa y la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5917805005831308457</id><published>2008-10-26T04:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T05:07:12.927-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis hipotecaria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Los derivados y la crisis</title><summary type='text'>Mucho se ha escrito en las ultimas semanas sobre el uso y abuso de los "derivados" como una de las causas de esta crisis. Y naturalmente varios analistas y expertos han salido a pedir que sean fuertemente regulados.Sin duda, los derivados de credito, una forma de seguros, conocidos como "Credit Default Swap"  o CDS (por sus siglas en ingles), han sido uno de los principales elementos de esta </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5917805005831308457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5917805005831308457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/los-derivados-y-la-crisis.html' title='Los derivados y la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4933669320248729058</id><published>2008-10-26T04:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T04:47:22.243-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bancos centrales'/><title type='text'>Sobre el origen de la crisis</title><summary type='text'>Explica el NY Times: "The roots of the credit crisis stretch back to another notable boom-and-bust: the tech bubble of the late 1990’s. When the stock market began a steep decline in 2000 and the nation slipped into recession the next year, the Federal Reserve sharply lowered interest rates to limit the economic damage.Lower interest rates make mortgage payments cheaper, and demand for homes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4933669320248729058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4933669320248729058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/sobre-el-origen-de-la-crisis.html' title='Sobre el origen de la crisis'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8071642292495013557</id><published>2008-10-25T04:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T05:18:26.373-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planificación Centralizada'/><title type='text'>Hecho del día</title><summary type='text'>" The most common economic criticism of the Soviet bloc has long been its failure to use incentives. This is a half-truth. As Hedrick Smith explained in "The Russians", the party leadership used incentives in the sectors where it really wanted results:Not only do defense and space efforts get top national priority and funding, but they also operate on a different system from the rest of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8071642292495013557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8071642292495013557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/hecho-del-da.html' title='Hecho del día'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-684728726683459104</id><published>2008-10-24T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T12:42:57.340-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politica'/><title type='text'>Lucha de clases en elecciones de Estados Unidos</title><summary type='text'>"Voters who make $60,000 a year or less favor the Democratic party while those who make more are fairly evenly divided between both parties. Investors favor the GOP, 43% to 42%, while those who do not invest favor the Democrats, 53% to 31%."y tambien de genero:"Men now favor the GOP by a 43% to 41% margin, while women continue to show big support for the Democrats, 49% to 36%."El dato mas </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/684728726683459104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/684728726683459104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/lucha-de-clases-en-elecciones-de.html' title='Lucha de clases en elecciones de Estados Unidos'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2543362690398035292</id><published>2008-10-21T05:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T05:20:58.913-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bancos centrales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflación'/><title type='text'>Como funcionan los bancos</title><summary type='text'>y porque dependen de la existencia de un banco central en una relacion simbiotica o de dependencia total?La explicacion esta en este articulo.En estos tiempos de crisis financiera nada mejor que entender la raices del "problema bancario" y porque la existencia de un banco central se ha vuelto un tema de prohibida discusion.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2543362690398035292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2543362690398035292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/como-funcionan-los-bancos.html' title='Como funcionan los bancos'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1638319286642983605</id><published>2008-10-18T07:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T11:33:19.997-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><title type='text'>Cual fue el impacto de la desregulacion en la crisis?</title><summary type='text'>"As for the evils of deregulation, exactly which measures are they referring to? Financial deregulation for the past three decades consisted of the removal of deposit interest-rate ceilings, the relaxation of branching powers, and allowing commercial banks to enter underwriting and insurance and other financial activities. Wasn't the ability for commercial and investment banks to merge (the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1638319286642983605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1638319286642983605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/cual-fue-el-impacto-de-la-desregulacion.html' title='Cual fue el impacto de la desregulacion en la crisis?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7974332578508162209</id><published>2008-10-14T03:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T04:02:47.656-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>El costo de los rescates....</title><summary type='text'>La deuda de los Estados Unidos llega a 10.2 trillones (el PIB del pais es aprox. 14 trillones).Escadaloso.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7974332578508162209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7974332578508162209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/el-costo-de-los-rescates.html' title='El costo de los rescates....'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1438012291131126850</id><published>2008-10-14T03:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T03:57:54.445-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul krugman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Como funciona el gobierno....</title><summary type='text'>Paul Krugman  ganó el premio nobel de economía ayer. Así que se me dió por leer su autobiografía. Dado que krugman es un economista keynesiano y entusiasta del Estado de Bienestar, los programas sociales  y la regulación, nunca me imaginé encontrar esta perla:"After a little while, however, I began to notice how policy decisions are really made. The fact is that most senior officials have no idea</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1438012291131126850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1438012291131126850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/10/como-funciona-el-gobierno.html' title='Como funciona el gobierno....'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7264621812862621759</id><published>2008-09-19T15:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T15:30:33.477-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medios'/><title type='text'>La desinformación de los medios</title><summary type='text'>En la campaña presidencial norteamericana</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7264621812862621759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7264621812862621759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-desinformacin-de-los-medios.html' title='La desinformación de los medios'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3785113107982723202</id><published>2008-09-17T16:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T17:28:55.610-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis hipotecaria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflación'/><title type='text'>Greenspan pudo evitar la crisis...</title><summary type='text'>Pero no lo hizo.Y que tal este dato? Seguro no aparecerá en alguna propaganda de Obama.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3785113107982723202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3785113107982723202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/greenspan-pudo-evitar-la-crisis.html' title='Greenspan pudo evitar la crisis...'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2824404948974342286</id><published>2008-09-17T16:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T16:36:02.766-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis hipotecaria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><title type='text'>No es tan simple</title><summary type='text'>Excelente columna sobre  la busqueda de culpables en la crisis financiera en USA.No es tan simple como quieren hacer creer los medios, algunos analistas politizados y la demagogía de las campañas de Mccain y Obama.Mientras tanto, el líder de los democratas en el senado manifiesta que no saben que hacer.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2824404948974342286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2824404948974342286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/no-es-tan-simple.html' title='No es tan simple'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-565358342272685274</id><published>2008-09-16T15:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T15:57:59.952-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis economica 2008'/><title type='text'>Ya se reconoce</title><summary type='text'>Portafolio pública un resumen de agencias noticias: "El origen de los problemas actuales del sistema financiero están en la expansiva política monetaria de Alan Greenspan, que puso a disposición mucho dinero y ello creó la burbuja inmobiliaria que ha explotado, según Kerssenbrock."Si esto viene de las noticias que públican esas agencias, quiere decir que ya se acepta en el público en general, que</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/565358342272685274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/565358342272685274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/ya-se-reconoce.html' title='Ya se reconoce'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5128994995813903098</id><published>2008-09-14T16:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T16:24:32.640-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libertad Educativa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><title type='text'>Links variados</title><summary type='text'>1. La desregulación inexistente en los mercados financieros2. El catastrofismo económico como arma electoral3. "Primera universidad privada, gratuita y rentable"</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5128994995813903098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5128994995813903098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/links-variados_14.html' title='Links variados'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4478232408645825294</id><published>2008-09-11T15:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T16:35:43.592-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><title type='text'>El mercado funciona por el miedo a perder</title><summary type='text'>Megan Mcardle sabiamente comenta:"One of the central insights of economics is that exit matters.  Markets don't do better, over the long run, because people in the private sector are smarter or well meaning.  They do better because they can be fired.  What's more, they frequently are:  firms that don't satisfy their customers go away.  Look at the businesses that people in America complain most </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4478232408645825294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4478232408645825294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/el-mercado-funciona-por-el-miedo-perder.html' title='El mercado funciona por el miedo a perder'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3393509627207058241</id><published>2008-09-11T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T15:01:21.256-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>La hipocresia de Obama</title><summary type='text'>Obama se opone a los vouchers escolares, y propone mas de lo mismo, mas dinero para la educación estatal. Por supuesto, de su propio dinero, prefiere enviar sus hijos a escuelas privadas. El si ejerce libre elección, pero no le gusta que los demás lo haganObama critica la ambición de los bancos que ha llevado a la crisis hipotecarias en Estados Unidos. Por supuesto, no tiene problemas en ser uno </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3393509627207058241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3393509627207058241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-hipocresia-de-obama.html' title='La hipocresia de Obama'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2517007634242491069</id><published>2008-09-10T11:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T11:20:32.361-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>Cualquier error se paga.....</title><summary type='text'> La campaña de Mccain obviamente no iba "perdonar" el lapsus de Obama, que intencional o no, fácilmente es interpretado como una burla contra Palin.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2517007634242491069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2517007634242491069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/cualquier-error-se-paga.html' title='Cualquier error se paga.....'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5566410858456201314</id><published>2008-09-09T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T21:59:17.467-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>Esto no va ayudar a Obama</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5566410858456201314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5566410858456201314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/esto-no-va-ayudar-obama.html' title='Esto no va ayudar a Obama'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8781998395651171886</id><published>2008-09-09T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T21:46:57.112-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>Lo que se debe saber de la nacionalización de freedie mac y fannie mae</title><summary type='text'>"The claim that this represents the failure of markets is more than a tad silly.  Fannie and Freddie weren't truly private companies, didn't act like truly private companies, and wouldn't have been allowed to so dominate the market if they had been.  This is yet another failure of a government program."Megan Mcardle</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8781998395651171886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8781998395651171886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/lo-que-se-debe-saber-de-la.html' title='Lo que se debe saber de la nacionalización de freedie mac y fannie mae'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6643683818727392204</id><published>2008-09-09T16:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T16:56:28.407-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><title type='text'>Obama continua moviendose a la derecha</title><summary type='text'>Ya no parece tan entusiasta de eliminar los recortes de impuestos de BushAl paso que vamos las ideas de Mccain y Obama no serán muy diferentes, y la elección se definirá por otros aspectos.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6643683818727392204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6643683818727392204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-continua-moviendose-la-derecha.html' title='Obama continua moviendose a la derecha'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3989464477017217086</id><published>2008-09-09T16:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T16:28:21.529-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thomas sowell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='izquierda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita de Thomas Sowell del dia</title><summary type='text'>"It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political left. The only reason for rejecting the left's vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the left perceives today or envisions for tomorrow. Most of us learn that from experience-- but experience is precisely what the young are lacking."Thomas Sowell</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3989464477017217086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3989464477017217086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/cita-de-thomas-sowell-del-dia.html' title='Cita de Thomas Sowell del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3151929780755277176</id><published>2008-09-09T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T11:06:45.877-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><title type='text'>Por qué Avanza Mccain en las encuestas?</title><summary type='text'>Tal parece que se debe a los independientes</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3151929780755277176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3151929780755277176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/por-qu-avanza-mccain-en-las-encuestas.html' title='Por qué Avanza Mccain en las encuestas?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4851060202642514957</id><published>2008-09-08T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T17:44:39.279-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>El porque del efecto Palin</title><summary type='text'>"Democrats speak up for the less prosperous; they have well-intentioned policies to help them; they are disturbed by inequality, and want to do something about it. Their concern is real and admirable. The trouble is, they lack respect for the objects of their solicitude. Their sympathy comes mixed with disdain, and even contempt.Democrats regard their policies as self-evidently in the interests </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4851060202642514957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4851060202642514957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/el-porque-del-efecto-palin.html' title='El porque del efecto Palin'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3675059633436256023</id><published>2008-09-08T16:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T16:32:08.223-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>El efecto Palin</title><summary type='text'>En este momento en Intrade, Obama esta en 53% perdiendo 7-8 puntos de donde estuvo muchas semanas (60-61%).Mccain logicamente avanza a 45 pasando de donde estuvo varias semanas (39%).Mccain tuvo sin duda exito en revertir el "post-convention bounce" de Obama.El americano medio parece adorar a Palin. Y según este articulo, ahora Mccain tiene la ventaja en las mujeres blancasLo mas seguro es decir </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3675059633436256023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3675059633436256023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/el-efecto-palin.html' title='El efecto Palin'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2967855534645547028</id><published>2008-09-08T07:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T07:52:30.708-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capitalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporativismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>Articulo del dia</title><summary type='text'>"In this crucially important era, I have focused on one point: big business was a major source of American statism. Further researches would show, I am convinced, that big business and financial leaders were also the dominant force behind America’s increasingly interventionist foreign policy, and behind the ideology of modern liberalism. In fact, by this analysis sustained research might show </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2967855534645547028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2967855534645547028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/articulo-del-dia.html' title='Articulo del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7942984269613330763</id><published>2008-09-07T11:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T11:16:14.226-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita del dia</title><summary type='text'>"And the word “ethics,” as I’ve argued at length in The Bourgeois Virtues (2006), is best seen as not exclusively about how you treat other people (by exercising the virtues of justice, secular love, and part of courage).  Ethics is also about how you treat yourself (prudence, temperance, and the rest of courage) and how you treat your purposes in life (hope, faith, and transcendent love). "</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7942984269613330763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7942984269613330763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/cita-del-dia.html' title='Cita del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8003906319430332353</id><published>2008-09-07T09:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T09:45:14.944-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uribe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>Links variados</title><summary type='text'>1. Uribe continua aumentando su poder sobre otras ramas del poder público2. Sarah Palin no fue una sorpresa3. Donde estará la próxima burbuja?4. Las contradicciones de Noam Chomsky5. La China actual se parece a la Alemania de finales del siglo XIX</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8003906319430332353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8003906319430332353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/links-variados.html' title='Links variados'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2479392002446867626</id><published>2008-09-07T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T08:49:16.336-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autoritarismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derechos individuales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colectivismo'/><title type='text'>"derecha"="izquierda"</title><summary type='text'>Thomas Woods escribe:"The Republican Party of 2008 is not the first political organization to adopt the slogan "country first" as its guiding philosophy. One of the intellectual fathers of twentieth-century German fascism was Paul Lensch, who wrote in his book, Three Years of World Revolution, that the philosophy of German fascism (Nazism) was expressed in the slogan "Gemeinnutz geht vor </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2479392002446867626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2479392002446867626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/derechaizquierda.html' title='&quot;derecha&quot;=&quot;izquierda&quot;'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3972659470298489389</id><published>2008-09-06T12:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T12:46:18.407-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economía internacional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><title type='text'>Las consecuencias esperadas de las políticas chinas</title><summary type='text'>El economista Brad De Long comenta:"China’s policy of export subsidies through currency manipulation was always bound to become unsustainable in the long run because it was bound to generate substantial domestic inflation."Nada de eso lo mencionan los entusiastas de este tipo de políticas, que en su momento fueron adoptadas por nuestro pais.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3972659470298489389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3972659470298489389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/las-consecuencias-esperadas-de-las.html' title='Las consecuencias esperadas de las políticas chinas'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1982164224538621664</id><published>2008-09-06T12:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T12:32:42.532-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>La experiencia de Obama vs La experiencia de Palin</title><summary type='text'>Es increíble que los democrátas hay cometido el error de críticar a Sarah Palin, por falta de experiencia, dado que esa es la principal debilidad de Obama. Se exponen a que Newt Gingrich les hablé duro:Sarah Palin es la unica candidata en ambas campañas, que tiene experiencia ejecutiva, manejando una gobernación con un presupuesta de 11.2 mil millones dolares y casi 29,000 empleados.Que atacar a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1982164224538621664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1982164224538621664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-experiencia-de-obama-vs-la.html' title='La experiencia de Obama vs La experiencia de Palin'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-7629475514962408571</id><published>2008-09-06T11:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T12:03:24.343-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colectivismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Que he estado leyendo</title><summary type='text'>"La moralidad es en gran medida un fenómeno intragrupal. De forma universal, los humanos tratamos a los desconocidos muchísimo peor de lo que tratamos a los miembros de nuestra propia comunidad. Es más, las normas morales apenas parecen ser aplicables fuera de nuestro entorno...es muy probable que la moralidad evolucionase como un fenómeno intragrupal en conjunción con otra serie de capacidades </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7629475514962408571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/7629475514962408571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/09/que-he-estado-leyendo.html' title='Que he estado leyendo'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-4242901057284147260</id><published>2008-08-31T20:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T20:07:50.532-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conflicto colombiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farc'/><title type='text'>Sobrevivir es una victoria para las FARC?</title><summary type='text'>Daniel Lisker sostiene que algunos líderes de las FARC piensan que mantener la guerra es una victoria:For the last couple of years, the FARC, many of whose leaders believe that they “win” simply by prolonging the conflict, has been seeking ways – for example, a humanitarian exchange and political recognition – to ease the military pressure that it has faced since Uribe came to power. The danger, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4242901057284147260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/4242901057284147260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/sobrevivir-es-una-victoria-para-las.html' title='Sobrevivir es una victoria para las FARC?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5138475312213390437</id><published>2008-08-31T17:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T17:04:14.936-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guerra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imperialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Lo de esperar</title><summary type='text'>Previsiblemente, el gobierno de Osetia del Sur ya habla de anexarse a Rusia. De vuelta a los años 30 y a la guerra fría.Los "Don Mario" a cargo de las grandes potencias vuelven a sus andadas de siempre.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5138475312213390437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5138475312213390437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/lo-de-esperar.html' title='Lo de esperar'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3936341844027384681</id><published>2008-08-30T12:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-30T12:35:21.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libre Mercado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Hechos del dia</title><summary type='text'>El bueno:The digital divide is beginning to close. The flow of digital information – through mobile phones, text messaging, and the Internet – is now reaching the world’s masses, even in the poorest countries, bringing with it a revolution in economics, politics, and society. Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation. But mobile phones and wireless </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3936341844027384681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3936341844027384681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/hechos-del-dia.html' title='Hechos del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5094403012456447314</id><published>2008-08-26T16:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-26T16:13:22.016-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imperialismo'/><title type='text'>Imperialismo yanqui</title><summary type='text'>De acuerdo con este sitio, el gobierno federal de Estados Unidos tiene militares desplegados(al menos uno) en prácticamente todos los paises del mundo, excepto Iran, Norcorea y un puñado de paises africanos.Extrañamente, los paises del eje chavista, se reporta que tienen militares gringos.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5094403012456447314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5094403012456447314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/imperialismo-yanqui.html' title='Imperialismo yanqui'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-2608166363994569891</id><published>2008-08-25T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T11:06:52.630-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='georcia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guerra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imperialismo'/><title type='text'>Lo que se necesita saber sobre la "guerra" entre Rusia y Georgia</title><summary type='text'>"When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians in Kosovo sought to break from Yugoslavia, the Russians sided with ally Serbia and opposed independence, but the United States backed the separatists and unleashed its bombers. Something similar </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2608166363994569891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/2608166363994569891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/lo-que-se-necesita-saber-sobre-la.html' title='Lo que se necesita saber sobre la &quot;guerra&quot; entre Rusia y Georgia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5698731004397814875</id><published>2008-08-24T09:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T09:15:31.351-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rentismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporativismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regulación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita del dia</title><summary type='text'>"Slim ha fundamentado su estrategia local en dos pilares: apostando duro con el músculo financiero que hoy tiene por cuenta de su fortuna y haciéndolo en sectores altamente regulados, donde se mueve como pez en el agua(....) En Colombia, su propuesta inicial por Telecom reveló el tipo de mercados que le gustan: donde pueda negociar directamente con el gobierno, donde hay una base amplia de </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5698731004397814875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5698731004397814875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/cita-del-dia_24.html' title='Cita del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6074673545471481774</id><published>2008-08-24T09:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T09:10:46.627-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colectivismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><title type='text'>El espejo del colectivismo hidraúlico</title><summary type='text'>En estos dias en que quieren imponernos la estatización/colectivización de la agua, es bueno conocer la realidad de paraíso colectivista por excelencia en relación con este tema:"Hoy, los problemas debidos a la escasez de agua en la mayoría de los pueblos y ciudades de Cuba se han agudizado y empeoran debido al estado deplorable de las redes de distribución. La demanda de agua aumenta también </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6074673545471481774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6074673545471481774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/el-espejo-del-colectivismo-hidralico.html' title='El espejo del colectivismo hidraúlico'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-740074791670883297</id><published>2008-08-22T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T11:05:47.576-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estado de  bienestar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pensamientos Liberales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derechos individuales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citas'/><title type='text'>Cita del dia</title><summary type='text'>"Nearly every reform proposal offered to fix "the health-care crisis" calls for increased governmental control of medicine. These proposals are the logical result of the belief that there is a "right" to medical care. But there is no such right. Rights, properly understood, do no include an entitlement to the services of others. "— William Dale, en el libro “Free Medicine”Claramente los que </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/740074791670883297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/740074791670883297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/cita-del-dia.html' title='Cita del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8133969233871736768</id><published>2008-08-21T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T08:40:16.225-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adam smith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hayek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='instituciones'/><title type='text'>Sobre el pensamiento de Smith y Hayek</title><summary type='text'>"the main insight of economists like Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek, is that differences in the inclinations of people to do good or evil are not so large. Instead, institutional differences matter more. Conveying that insight is a challenge."Yo agregaria tambien a Marx.Link aqui.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8133969233871736768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8133969233871736768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/sobre-el-pensamiento-de-smith-y-hayek.html' title='Sobre el pensamiento de Smith y Hayek'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-6639466348365354419</id><published>2008-08-20T21:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T21:29:15.917-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><title type='text'>La nación de Obama</title><summary type='text'>La derecha se viene con todo contra Obama y sacan un libro que se convierte en bestseller.Quien sabe si esto solo lo lean los anti-obamistas convencidos, pero el caso es que Mccain ha empezado a liderar algunas encuestas.Lo unico cierto es que la carrera presidencial en Estados Unidos esta mas cerrada de lo que muchos pensaban o deseaban.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6639466348365354419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/6639466348365354419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/la-nacin-de-obama.html' title='La nación de Obama'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-3273470662222576839</id><published>2008-08-10T04:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T04:05:15.091-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thomas sowell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pensamientos Liberales'/><title type='text'>Pensamiento liberal del dia</title><summary type='text'>"En el extrmo, [el racionalismo] exalta el mas trivial o tendenciosos "estudio" por "expertos" a nivel de politica, superponiendose a la fuerza sobre las preferencias y convicciones de millones de personas. Mientras que el racionalismo a nivel individual es un llamado a mayor autonomía personal con respecto a las normas culturales, a nivel social con frecuencia es un reclamo-o usurpación- del </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3273470662222576839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/3273470662222576839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/pensamiento-liberal-del-dia.html' title='Pensamiento liberal del dia'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-1223349157230371132</id><published>2008-08-10T02:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T02:56:24.752-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mccain'/><title type='text'>Mccain el anti-intelectual?</title><summary type='text'>Dice Alejandro Gaviria: "Esta semana, John McCain acusó a Barack Obama de pertenecer al mundo ilusorio y arrogante de Paris Hilton. La respuesta de Hilton no se hizo esperar. En un video de dos minutos, que ya ha sido visto por millones de internautas, Hilton hace gala no de su juventud, no de su belleza, no de su fortuna, sino de su inteligencia. En un tono arrogante, de caricatura, Hilton se </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1223349157230371132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/1223349157230371132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-el-anti-intelectual.html' title='Mccain el anti-intelectual?'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-456741715733857833</id><published>2008-08-06T07:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-06T07:17:08.533-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libertad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberalismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sociedad libre'/><title type='text'>El pensamiento politico de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</title><summary type='text'>"In the West, he liked the Swiss model of local government and spoke highly of his experiences living in Vermont. Before leaving for Russia in 1994, Solzhenitsyn spoke to his neighbors in a Cavendish town meeting and thanked the town for its hospitality and for respecting his privacy. He thought of the town-meeting type of self-government as the most suitable for Russia. He did not, however, make</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/456741715733857833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/456741715733857833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/el-pensamiento-politico-de-aleksandr.html' title='El pensamiento politico de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-8963138711148209383</id><published>2008-08-05T17:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T17:51:14.467-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía Colombiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intervencionismo económico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='estatismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estado'/><title type='text'>Por eso no somos ricos</title><summary type='text'>Situaciones como esta explican porque Colombia tiene un ingreso per capita mas alto.En teoría somos un pais "capitalista" y ultimamente dizque existe un modelo neoliberal. En la realidad, nuestra economía esta llena de rentistas, carteles, oligopolios, regulaciones. Es una economía administrada y fuertemente intervenida. No es socialismo, porque la propiedad no es plenamente controlada por el </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8963138711148209383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/8963138711148209383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/por-eso-no-somos-ricos.html' title='Por eso no somos ricos'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31862630.post-5874712490225143838</id><published>2008-08-04T08:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T08:53:28.248-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ambientalismo radical'/><title type='text'>10 cosas de las que no debería preocuparse</title><summary type='text'>La prensa, en su afan sensacionalista con el fin de atraer mas lectores, nos vive asustando con amenazas de crisis y desastres.Por lo menos aquí hay 10 cosas de las que no debería preocuparse, o al menos, de las que debería ser crítico con lo publican o divulgan los grandes medios.Aqui hay mas.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5874712490225143838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31862630/posts/default/5874712490225143838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://liberalcolombiano.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-cosas-de-las-que-no-debera.html' title='10 cosas de las que no debería preocuparse'/><author><name>Carlos Méndez</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPfUquWxmyk/TPEU9D9o-RI/AAAAAAAAAQw/d9natV7UhFg/S220/PerfilBlogger.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
