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The Austrian School’s Influence

Anyone who thinks the Austrians are not influential really needs to do his homework on the subject. Penrose, Lawson, and Lewin have all been influential in their fields and were heavily influenced by Austrian ideas. Tullock and Buchanan have both said...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Thu, Jul 16 2009

On Foreign Minister Maduro's reaction to Hillary's Globovisión interview

Dear Minister of the Popular Power for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro: I would like first of all to thank you for having favorably received, toward the end of last year, my opinions regarding the restablishment...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Jul 16 2009

Filed under: Venezuela, unawareness, issues, Maduro, bilateral, misunderstanding, Bolivarian, Hillary, U.S. foreign policy

Mayor Antonio Ledezma's Hunger Strike

Caracas, July 8, 2009 Mayor Ledezma is already getting the attention of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and of the press. I back the suggestion from Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles Radonski, who advises Ledezma to immediately...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Jul 16 2009

Filed under: efficient, Ghandi, strike, Mayor, manager, creativity, Ledezma, hunger, Capriles Radonski, Caracas

[Update] Gene Callahan, objectively unreal: If a blog comment is deleted, did it ever exist? And is the indignation I feel based on a moral code that has an "objective" existence?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jul 16 2009

Filed under: Callahan, Bob Murphy, objective moral order, Danny Shahar

A Human-Precipitated Mass-Extinction?; a libertarian discussion of preferences about things unowned

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jul 16 2009

Filed under: tragedy of commons, property rights, state action, preferences, species, extinction

A View from the Trenches, July 16th, 2009: "Change is in the air"

( To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) Voila! Yesterday equity markets in North America rallied about 3% on average, in the face of high unemployment, a Fed that acknowledges...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jul 15 2009

My proposal for business between Venezuela and the United States

Dear English-speaking reader: We are very interested in your comments, points of view and disagreements. Your replies and propositions might actually change the scope of this proposal to the benefit of both of our countries. Please find below my translation...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Filed under: coffee, auto parts, investing, chocolate, recovery, exporter, Venezuela, exports, importer, imports

Mi propuesta para el comercio entre Venezuela y Estados Unidos

Existe una enorme necesidad para muchas empresas venezolanas en localizar productos y servicios específicos en cualquier parte del mundo, e importarlos legalmente aun cuando existe un régimen de control cambiario. Para lograr ese objetivo...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Filed under: repuestos, detal, semiconductores, frenos, herramientas, cajas, importación, transmisión, enfriamiento, bolsas de polímero., precintos de seguridad, componentes electrónicos, autopartes, motores, carrocería

Duro contra las drogas

por Mauricio García Villegas – tomado de EL ESPECTADOR – Julio 11 de 2009 Profesor de la U. Nacional e investigador de Dejusticia. Luego de cuarenta años de lucha infructuosa contra las drogas ilícitas —todo empezó...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Atlas Does Not Shrug at Climate Change: Exxon, Rob Bradley's favorite "principled entrepreneur", embarks on $600+ million biofuels venture

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Filed under: climate change, Rob Bradley, Exxon, Tillerson

Bob Murphy on James Hansen and the "Civil War on the Left" over Waxman-Markey; where is criticism of pork for coal?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Filed under: James Hansen, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Joe Romm, climate change, exxon capture, Kucinich

The Second Coming of Keynes

Paul Krugman wants to be our savior. Moreover, he wants to be a specific kind of savior: a magus of the scientific age, a blackboard prophet. The roots of this curious ambition can be seen in his recent profile in Newsweek : Krugman says he found himself...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Filed under: Paul Krugman, Economics, Business Cycle, John Maynard Keynes

A View from the Trenches, July 15th, 2009: "Confusion"

( To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) Analysts are striving to understand the action in equities in the last two days and in credit and Treasuries since yesterday. As...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jul 14 2009

Hillary en Globovisión

Estimada Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos de América: Quisiera primeramente agradecer a su equipo por haber tomado en cuenta favorablemente, a fines del año pasado, mis opiniones respecto al restablecimiento...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Tue, Jul 14 2009

Official exchange rate of the bolívar fuerte vs. the parallel rate

On his article last Friday, Miguel Salazar claims that the official exchange rate will suffer a modest devaluation from Bs.F 2.15 up to Bs.F 2.90 per U.S. dollar. It is laughable that this devaluation will only reach up to Bs. 2.90, but I suppose that...