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You know it's a popular dystopian novel, up there with 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 . You may have skimmed it in high school, but have you actually read and digested Huxley's Brave New World ? Huxley wrote it in response to H. G. Wells's absurdly...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Mon, Nov 2 2009

Filed under: books

The Road Not Taken IV: My other hysterical comments on climate science & how Austrians hamstring themselves

In my initial post, on how Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change , I copied my chief comment to Stephan Kinsella . I copy below my other posts and some of the remarks I was responding to on Stephan`s thread , including the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Nov 2 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, science, religion, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, limited liability, Kinsella

[Update- apology] The Road Not Taken III: Stephan Kinsella plugs his ears on the Austrians` obstinate, willful irrelevancy in the climate debate?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Nov 1 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, science, religion, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, limited liability, Kinsella: climate change

A View from the Trenches, November 2nd, 2009: " Hope for the best, fear the worst"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com The week is starting on bad news. To begin with, last Friday’s close was horrible in equities. Not so much in credit, where spreads did not widen more than they had on Wednesday...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Nov 1 2009

Halloween y su economía de las golosinas

Por Jeffrey A. Tucker. (Publicado el 31 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3834 . Dale Steinreich escribió una vez que Hallloween tenía un “aire...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Nov 1 2009

Filed under: Jeffrey Tucker, dinero, Halloween

October brainstorming time

I did not want to leave October behind without writing a quick note, and there are only a couple of hours left for the end of this month, so this entry is written in a hurry with minimal proofreading. I have been incredibly busy and my blog writing has...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sat, Oct 31 2009

Filed under: linkedin, twitter, writing, rush, grandmother, blog, Japan, October

El patrón oro y la Gran Depresión

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 30 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3778 . Paul Krugman ha concentrado su fuego recientemente en quienes “se dan golpes...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Oct 31 2009

Filed under: Gran Depresión, Paul Krugman, oro, Robert Murphy

Turning the 'employer power' defense of minimum wage laws on its head.

The economics : a worker tends to earn his discounted marginal productivity in a 'package' of wages and conditions in lieu of wages. The worker's marginal productivity is the income that the employer gains from the employment of this additional...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Sat, Oct 31 2009

The Road Not Taken II: Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change, the greatest commons problem / rent-seeking game of our age

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 30 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, science, religion, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, limited liability, Kinsella: climate change

A View from the Trenches, October 30th, 2009: "On stocks as an inflation hedge"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com With yesterday’s $1.94BN purchase of 2013/16 Treasuries, the Fed finalized its $300BN purchase program. If you have been following my comments since April, you will know I never...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Oct 29 2009

Crisis en los inmuebles comerciales: ¿No debemos desperdiciar la próxima crisis?

Por Matthew J. Novak (Publicado el 29 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3797 . Recientemente cuando caminaba hacia casa con la compra de un fin de semana, pasé...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Oct 29 2009

Filed under: crisis, Matthew J. Novak

¿Están los Estados Unidos pasando hambre?

Por Jeremie T.A. Rostan (Publicado el 28 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/story/3776 . “Uno de cada ocho estadounidenses pasa hambre”. Si no ha escuchado...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Oct 29 2009

Filed under: hambre, Estados Unidos, Jeremie T.A. Rostan

A View from the Trenches, October 29th, 2009: "What are we correcting?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Yes, we are experiencing a correction. No news here. Yesterday too, the Norges Bank raised its benchmark rate by 25bps, signaling the beginning of the end in accommodative policies...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Oct 28 2009

[update] Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley and the Austrian Road Not Taken on Climate by two fossil-fuels gunslingers

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Oct 28 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, Block, climate change, Coal, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon

Máxima confusión acerca de los salarios mínimos

Por D.W. MacKenzie. (Publicado el 28 de octubre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/story/3790 . Dado que tenemos un desempleo creciente, una reducción de los niveles de los...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Oct 28 2009

Filed under: D. W. MacKenzie, salario mínimo