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01 September 2009
The 19th-Century Bernanke: Featured on Mises.org
My article The 19th-Century Bernanke (originally posted here ) is featured today on the Ludwig von Mises Institute web site. Here are the links for... the article comments MP3 audio file (read by Floy Lilley) I hope you will enjoy reading or listening to it. Here's an excerpt Like Ben Bernanke today... Read More...
14 August 2009
Ben Bernanke Was Wrong: YouTube Mashup
Somebody did a cool "mashup" ( defined in Wikipedia as "a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work") of my Mises.org article on Ben Bernanke's embarrassing prognostications... Read More...
08 August 2009
The 19th Century Bernanke
There is something disarming about a technocrat. While it is easy to dismiss elected officials as blustering panderers, there is something comforting in the image of the specialist civil servant toiling away with industry and equanimity. Poring over statistics like a Hellenic priest scientifically examining... Read More...
28 July 2009
Ben Bernanke Was Wrong: Featured on Mises.org
My piece Ben Bernanke Was Wrong is a Daily Article today on the Mises Institute web site. Here is the article and the comments page. I've fleshed out my commentary on the transcription to make it more of an actual article. I've also updated the article here on Summa Anthropica. One of the things... Read More...
18 July 2009
Ben Bernanke Was Wrong
We now have the diametrical opposite of the famous " Peter Schiff Was Right " video (a compilation of 2006 and 2007 clips in which Schiff, a financial expert who subscribes to Austrian economics, predicted the deep recession that would follow the bursting of the housing bubble). The new, opposite... Read More...