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Executive compensation: Robert Wenzel sees a "United States of Obama"; I see people too frazzled to give a screwdriver to a those who only have a hammer

Robert Wenzel has a couple of posts up on his blog that rightly ring alarm bells about the plans of the Obama administration to seek legislative changes that would allow regulators to oversee executive compensation (1) in the financial sector ("...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 11 2009

Filed under: obama, limited liability, Wenzel, Sarbanes, public company

A View from the Trenches, June 11th, 2009: A brief summary so far

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com/martin/2009/06/11 This is a relevant week in the story of the crisis. I therefore think there is merit in taking a break to examine where we are at: - Treasuries, agency debt and...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jun 10 2009

In Defense of "Radical Politics"

Due to a number of recent events of small-scale violence done in the name of politics, a media hysteria has apparently started to develope over what is labeled as "radical politics". To be sure, the events that the media has reacted to are certainly...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jun 10 2009

Filed under: Big Media, News

Divination in the Iliad

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Inductive Practical Astronomy . Homer begins his Iliad as Hesiod begins his poems, by invoking a goddess, probably a Muse (although Homer, unlike Hesiod...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Wed, Jun 10 2009

Filed under: Epistemology, Homer

Prices, and Production: Lecture III, Part I

At this point it is necessary to introduce a distinction between producers' goods that can be used in many, if not all, stages of production, and those that can be used in one, at most a few, stages of production. To the first class belong almost...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Wed, Jun 10 2009

A View from the Trenches, June 10, 2009: TARP funds repayment: What will the Treasury do with the money?

(This article can also be read in pdf format in my website: www.sibileau.com/martin ) Good morning, Yesterday was a relatively quiet day, and judging by the closing of the session, ominously bullish. At close, swap spreads had compressed with mortgage...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jun 10 2009

Institutions and Knowledge

Institutions also act, in a way similar to prices, as knowledge surrogates (it's important to point out the difference between a knowledge surrogate and embodied knowledge; see Steven Horwitz's "Monetary Calculation and the Unintended Extended...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Wed, Jun 10 2009

The Action-Axiom: A Kantian Understanding of the Action-Axiom, and Its Praxeological Conclusions

The synthetic a priori judgment can guide our comprehension of the action-axiom, and similarly can do so for our comprehension of the entire structure of praxeology, more specifically its advantages over empirical techniques. The synthetic a priori is...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Tue, Jun 9 2009

Filed under: Praxeology, Action-Axiom, Synthetic A Priori

הצעת החוק של ניצן הורוביץ

ח"כ הטרי ניצן הורוביץ (שחיבבתי אותו מאוד בערוץ 10, עם הפינה הנפלאה שהגיש אצל לונדון וקירשנבאום) הגיש הצעת חוק שעיקרה רגולציה מטורפת של שוק הספרים בישראל. עיקרי ההצעה כפי שפורסמה: " במסגרת הצעת החוק מציע הורוביץ לעגן בחוק מחיר מינימום לספר חדש...

Posted to Making Economic Sense by giladr on Tue, Jun 9 2009

הגרלות והימורים

בהתחשב במסורת הסוציאליסטית של ישראל, לא מפתיע לגלות מהו מצב ההגרלות וההימורים בישראל. הפוליטיקאים מאז קום המדינה דאגו ליצור מונופולים שיעשקו את האזרחים שמעוניינים להמר ויממנו מקורבים ובעלי עניין. למפעל הפיס (שהוא חברה פרטית בערבון מוגבל) יש מונופול שמחודש...

Posted to Making Economic Sense by giladr on Tue, Jun 9 2009

"A view from the Trenches", June 9, 2009: If you can't explain it, blame it on "expectations"

(This blog is also posted on my personal website: www.sibileau.com/martin , where the article can be read in pdf format) The week started on a bearish note. Frankly, it is a note I don’t understand. It is based on the fear that the Fed will raise...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jun 9 2009

Beating Back Conspiracy Theories

I think Cropperb, hits it out of the park here, whatever you may think of his consistent objectivism and anti-libertarian views. In these times when freedom is constantly under attack, where the left and right throws up grand theories on conspiring capitalists...

Posted to Ethics and Economics by fezwhatley on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Filed under: conspiracy theory

Institutions

Institutions act as reference points around which people can plan. These reference points provide some level of certainty in a changing world. Because they are long-lived and well-known, these institutions help coordinate plans between people. They can...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Esa Cosa Extraña Llamada Capitalismo

por Manfred F. Schieder "La justificación moral del Capitalismo radica en el hecho de que es el único sistema consonante con la naturaleza racional del hombre, que protege la supervivencia del hombre qua hombre, y cuyo su principio...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Inductive Practical Astronomy

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Introducing Works and Days Much of the Works and Days , like the Theogony , is concerned with outlandish tales about the past. Here we have the myths of...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Filed under: Epistemology, Hesiod