You've got to be kidding me...

Today the Federal Trade Commission declared that a popular Texas real estate website was de facto public property. The FTC prosecuted the Austin Board of Realtors (ABOR) because the association restricted publication of listings on its Austinhomesearch.com website. ABOR passed a rule limiting the site to "exclusive right to sell" listings. The FTC said the site should also include "exclusive agency" listings... This effectively means that any web site's editorial content is subject to FTC control under the agency's mandate to identify and punish "unfair competition".

See the original Mises.org Blog post

Just when you think the Feds couldn't get any stranger...

Interesting Links

Summary of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises: A contributor to the Mises Institute finds an old issue of The Freeman where one George Kather summarizes Human Action. For those who don't want to take the time to read the 900 page tome, these are probably the perfect cliff notes.

YouTube - The New Political Arena: The LP blog comments on how the now infamous YouTube will affect elections and politics in general...

One Red Paperclip - One Year - One House

one red paperclip

Congratulations to Kyle MacDonald for successfully trading his one red paperclip up to a house in Kipling Saskatchewan!

See the link for the chronicles of Kyle's trading adventure!!!

What if Walter Matthau was in Star Wars?

That would be a bad, bad thing...

Eric Mongrain

Found this via Digg, I think. This guy plays in the spirit of Michael Hedges, perhaps the greatest fingerstyle guitarist of the 20th century. Eric is truly an inspiring artist!