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A View from the Trenches, March 18th, 2012: "On gold, stocks, financial repression and the KreditAnstalt of 1931"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: March 18 2012 We are back from Washington DC and realize that we could choose different titles for today’s letter. Let’s try a few… Title No.1: “The market proved us wrong”...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Mar 18 2012

Filed under: Atlantic, KreditAnstalt, correlation, stocks, central banks, Greece, gold, Fed, financial repression, swaps, price system, 1931, ECB, Hayek, currency swaps

As Callahan and Richman laud consumer/moral pressure on polluters, others tell us a BP boycott is stupid

Another BP post ! I noted in a post yesterday that Sheldon Richman has recently suggested that the best, nonstatist way to deal with climate change is " through a voluntary social movement that promoted an ethic [of] encouraging and pressuring people...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 17 2010

The Conservative Conundrum

Interesting news this week with various outlets reporting that President Obama may not be able to function in a press conference without a teleprompter. It makes me wonder exactly how much information he’s being fed, and what he actually knows....

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Mar 12 2009

Filed under: Obama, Liberal, Conservative, nepotism, Bureaucracy, Limbaugh, Palin, Republican, democrat, Wayne Parker, Gingrich

The Fragile Welfare State

It's strike season here in Finland, unions are throwing their weight around and a peculiar situation is brewing in the healthcare sector. Healthcare services here are mainly provided by the state and municipals. The nurses are demanding a 24% pay...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Wed, Oct 17 2007

Non-scarcity of intellectual property

Scarcity can be defined as the ownership of something tangible which necessarily excludes others from using it. Thus, if I own a fork, I exclude others from using it, unless I either give it away or temporarily transfer availability of it to someone else...

Posted to Solredime by Solredime on Fri, Aug 7 2009

Filed under: regulation, intervention, non-scarcity, intellectual property, monopoly rights, IP, copyright, copyleft, creative commons, scarcity

Who's at the short end of the stick when Government "Play[s] Fast and Loose with Civilization" in the Gulf of Mexico?

Another BP post ! I have just stumbled across by Jeffrey Tucker's May 27, 2010 post on the Mises Economics Blog regarding the Obama administration’s decision, in response to the BP mess in the Gulf, to suspend consideration of applications to...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jun 8 2010

Los asuntos morales del dinero

Por Gabriel M. Mueller. (Publicado el 22 de abril de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5197 . No habría sido capaz de escribir este artículo sin haber leído...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Apr 23 2011

Filed under: dinero, Biblia, Gabriel M. Mueller, envilecimiento

Did Ben Bernanke really just say that?

While addressing the House Financial Services Committee recently Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said something quite astonishing. Responding to an absolute drilling from Representative Ron Paul, Bernanke claimed that the devaluation of the...

Posted to dget by dget on Fri, Nov 9 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul, Federal Reserve, Inflationary Policy, Indirect Tax, Ben Bernanke

Marlo Lewis/CEI at MasterResource: why a massive cap & trade program is much, much better than Jim Hansen's simple rebated carbon tax idea. Or not.

Marlo Lewis of CEI has a rather schizophrenic post up at Rob Bradley 's MasterResource blog - one of my favorite "free market" fossil-fuel industry-funded sites (unlike the NRO's "Planet Gore", MasterResource actually allows...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Mar 3 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Rob Bradley, Jim Hansen, Mario Lewis, MasterResource

Destroying the salmon; the socialized commons and climate change (Part II)

I briefly commented previously on the perilous state of the West Coast salmon fishery , which is crashing due not only to climate change-related stresses in the ocean and in stream flows, but also to our government's destruction of Indian-held private...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 23 2008

Filed under: commons, fisheries, climate change, Salmon, bureacratic mismanagement, socialized commons

Más allá del ser y el deber ser

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 24 de agosto de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4629 . [De Liberty , 1988] El profesor Hans Hoppe, un inmigrante bastante reciente procedente...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Aug 26 2010

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, libertarismo, filosofía, Hans Hermann Hoppe

[Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're a delusional, neurotic "zealot"

[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: markets, AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Bret Stephens, preferences, Lubos Motl

Is ObamaCare against the constitution?

Well if you follow this blog you know that I'm absolutely against forced blessings from states. It seems that it's really against your constitution also. I'm very excitedly what your Supreme Court will decide. I just can hope for you that...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Mar 30 2012

Filed under: legal, supreme court, freedom?, Obamacare

Beyond 'Nuclear Crony Capitalism': Does state-created corporations mean we are stuck with a wonderfully confused 'capitalist' mess of socialized risk?

Last night I was Sleepless in Tokyo because Matt Ridley and one of his commenters rewarded, with nice words and questions, a comment I left there on his " Nuclear Crony Capitalism " post. So naturally I wrote more. Here's the relevant comment...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Mar 31 2011

poverty is the best policy.

A new maxim of judicious living: Poverty is the best policy. If you get wealth, you will have to support other people; if you do not get wealth, it will be the duty of other people to support you. —William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Mon, Oct 5 2009

Filed under: sumner, property rights, going galt