Por Doug French. (Publicado el 13 de febrero de 2012) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5917 . [ Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers • Jared Dillian • Simon and Schuster, 2011 • 368 páginas] Los...
Por James E. Miller. (Publicado el 17 de enero de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4975 . Hace unas pocas noches, mi novia y yo vimos Los otros dos , protagonizada por Will Ferrell y Mark Wahlberg. La película es una...
Haiti. What a mess. As my father said so brilliantly, "Even before the earthquake it was never anything but a campsite." I would wager that if you'd sent a truck full of free food into Port Au Prince the day before the earthquake the reaction of the city's residents would have been...
I haven't written a soccer post in a long time but I thought that with the holidays upon us, and this heartwarming story appearing, it made sense to do so. I enjoy both American and English football. I never did play American football except in backyards and in PE the way we used to when I was a...
US shares fall below 7,000 level to 12-year low The global rout in global stocks spread to the US market today, sending America’s blue chip index plunging below the 7,000-mark for the first time since April 1997. As Gordon Brown, Britain’s Prime Minister, headed to Washington for talks with...
It is a well-known Wall Street expression that “the market dislikes uncertainty.” Yet, this has seemingly been forgotten, if it was ever known, by Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) when he said “ I'm concerned that we may end up having to do that [nationalization], at least for a short...
Does a bad apple spoil the whole bunch? Unless the adult influences in my childhood misled me then the answer is no. Somehow, this came to me as my free-market, anti-regulatory brain tried to cope with the harsh reality that something has gone terribly wrong with all that I believed to be true about...