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To be fair with P. Krugman

I keep reading a lot against Mr. Krugman's position lately. Many times, I have disagreed with his views myself, and in a profitable way, as when he was bearish in 2009 (see my letter from May 19th, 2009). However, under the current circumstances,...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jul 29 2010

A View from the Trenches, July 29th, 2010: "Earnings vs. macro picture"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-29-2010 From our vantage point, the last 72 hours are confirming our long-term perspective that the recent strength in the stock markets is baseless. There are currently two main arguments supporting...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jul 29 2010

¡Levantaos, campesinos! Los croquants del siglo XVII

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 22 de julio de 2001) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4572 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento económico...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Jul 28 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, croquants

It's good that a few things exist

I count among them the Wikileaks. Not that I've used it intensivly, especially not about the war in Afghanistan. But it's because journalism seems to just write as the politicians do. I commented on one extreme example in my other blog (in German...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Jul 27 2010

Filed under: Obama, lies, freedom, deledefs, betray, wikileaks

How do you read the Economy?

How do you read the Economy? by Alex Merced Many people always ask me, since I'm so critical about using any type of statistics to measure whether the economy is doing well or bad, how would I measure the performance of the economy? I wouldn't...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Tue, Jul 27 2010

Filed under: Economy, Innovation, Statistics, Standard of Life, quality

Nacionalismo económico: Del mercantilismo a la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Por Michael A. Heilperin. (Publicado el 13 de julio de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/4437 . [Extraído del capítulo 3 de Studies in Economic Nationalism ] No...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jul 27 2010

Filed under: historia, mercantilismo, Michael Heilperin, nacionalismo

A View from the Trenches, July 26th, 2010: "Chapter 13 revisited"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-26-2010 We start the week without the uncertainty of the Euro stress tests and with further data on the US macro picture, namely, the two factors driving discussions and action last week. On...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 26 2010

Something worth to be thinking about

Won't you agree, that politicians have a strange kind of understanding about what people can and can't do? In Germany we learned after a referendum about changes in the way schooling has to run. There are a few interesting twarts in Germany. ...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Sun, Jul 25 2010

Filed under: Debts, deledefs, underfunded, military, shadow budgets, no clue voters, liars

Clean-up in Aisle 7; Or, In Which I Heroically Litter Walter Block's Post on Littering

I refer to Walter Block's the July 14 Mises Blog post Defending the Litterer , an excerpt of his "Defending the Undefendable" book. In his final two paragraphs, Block concludes: In the light of the inflexibility of the government, and its...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 25 2010

A note to Tom Woods:Mises & property (and commons & IP): Is libertarianism now "merely a veiled apologia for capital”?

I refer to Tom Wood's post on Mises's Vision of the Free Society , regarding Ludwig von Mises 's book, Liberalism . I left the following comment (emphasis added): TokyoTom July 21, 2010 at 4:11 am Tom: I’ll need to take a look at this...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 25 2010

Libertarians and IP: Shall we replace the state with "principled" thoughtlessness?

I commented previously on Stephan Kinsella's Mises Blog post: “ The L. Neil Smith – FreeTalkLive Copyright Dispute ”; allow me to note the the response I received from Stephan and my reply (emphasis added): Stephan Kinsella July...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jul 23 2010

A few thoughts from Japan on unowned/common resources, governments and whale PR wars

I left this comment on a post at Andy Revkin' s Dot Earth/NYT blog about the January run-in between the Sea Shepherd organization and the Japanese whaling fleet (emphasis added): TokyoTom Tokyo January 11th, 2010 3:50 pm Andy, this dispute is in some...