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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

When Words Disappear

It's always interesting to watch how a society's vernacular changes, to see new words added and old words subtracted. Additions bring the most fuss (see: text messaging). Subtractions often slip by the way side. The most striking example, today...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Mon, Sep 8 2008

Filed under: taxation, bail out, socialism, fannie mae, freddie mac, words

La distracción de la competitividad

Por T. Norman Van Cott. (Publicado el 27 de diciembre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5835 . ¿Augura el actual fracaso de la educación primaria y secundaria...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 28 2011

Filed under: ventaja comparativa, competitividad, T. Norman Van Cott

Ponzi Scheme Unravels

Ponzi Scheme Unravels By Monty Pelerin , posted December 25th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/25/wake-up-santa-is-not-real/ What the Economy Needs “… all Ponzi schemes eventually fail under their own weight. The US debt scheme...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Dec 26 2009

Filed under: economy, Treasury, Sprott

A View from the Trenches, January 7th, 2010: "Don't forget Greece"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-7-2009 Yesterday, I attended the Economic Club of Canada’s 2010 Economic Outlook event, presented by the chief economists of Canada’s largest banks (W. Jestin, Bank of Nova Scotia;...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jan 7 2010

Por qué cuesta tanto la facultad de derecho

Por George C. Leef. (Publicado el 10 de diciembre de 2002) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/1113 . Según un informe recientemente publicado, el alto coste de asistir a la...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Jan 13 2012

Filed under: George Leef, derecho

If you don't like it...

I'm reading through Thomas DiLorenzo's contribution to the recently published Hoppe Festschrifft and a thought suddenly occurs to me. It occurred as I read through the section on secession and how public choice theorists ignore secession and focus...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Aug 5 2009

Filed under: secession

Keynes as "Useful Idiot"

The milk of American politics may be money, but the fuel for American socialism is Keynesian economics. Keynesianism’s inherent bias toward bigger government has made it the indispensable tool for statists around the globe. Politicians' natural wont...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Sep 1 2010

The Sword and the Lie

I normally wouldn’t quote another work at such length, but the following seven paragraphs are devastatingly true and important, and need to be disseminated as widely as possible. I couldn’t summarize or abbreviate it without losing something...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, Political Philosophy

Capitalism & Venezuelan regional elections / Capitalismo y elecciones regionales venezolanas

Back to capitalism through Venezuelan regional elections Last Sunday the population of the four most populous and industrial states of Venezuela elected new governors and mayors affiliated with opposition parties. Their victory is considered as an expression...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Nov 27 2008

A View from the Trenches, June 13th, 2010: " The stakes get higher"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: june-13-2011 This past week may well have been the game changer. To be fair, the game change began the week before, with the lower than expected jobs growth print. Since then, we have seen the Fed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jun 13 2011

LA DERECHA BOBA o por qué la izquierda manda

Chávez: la realidad Edición especial para Venezuela y el exterior. Escrito por Alberto Mansueti (*) Miembro fundador de "Rumbo Propio" http://www.rumbopropio.org.ve Maracaibo, Venezuela La izquierda virulenta es el segundo más...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, Feb 17 2009

My Take on the ABCT: Objections Considered

Referring to the ideas presented in My Take on the ABCT (Simple Version) and My Take on the ABCT (Complex Version) , a Mises Forum member wrote... Wrong. What you're describing is a credit cycle. It implies that all the government needs to do is to...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Filed under: Economics, Business Cycle

Should libertarians still vote for Obama?

Alex Tabarrok thought they should about a week ago because the costs of warfare in terms of economics and liberty are both so great and often under-estimated. This is an argument I find convincing, but now I'm not so sure. In recent comments about...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Sep 17 2008

Filed under: regulation, obama, libertarianism, bush

No echemos la culpa a la Reserva Federal

Por Stephen Mauzy. (Publicado el 15 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3913 . Hace mucho tiempo que dejé de criticar al presidente de la Reserva Federal...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 16 2009

Filed under: Fed, crisis, Stephen Mauzy