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Because School Told Us

I recently taught a workshop about brains for a group of 24 5th graders. First I wrote on the board, “What does the brain do?” The students dutifully enumerated the standard list: controls your movements, thinks, feels emotion, controls your...

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

Filed under: Education

A View from the Trenches, June 22nd 2009: "Retrenchment"

The chart below, which shows last Friday’s intraday action in 30-yr Treasuries vs. the S&P500 Index, says it all: Retrenchment. Indeed, personally, I don’t think we have made any progress last week. This is perhaps reflected in wider credit...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Jun 21 2009

Fed Cranks Up The Presses

CNN/Money reports : "One day after disappointing Wall Street with a quarter-point rate cut, the Federal Reserve announced a plan to inject billions of dollars into the financial system." The fact that the Fed is working together with central...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Wed, Dec 12 2007

Filed under: inflation, ron paul

Economics in One Lesson校译之7. The Curse of Machinery (4-2)

第7章机器之祸（接前面部分） 2 But the opposition to labor-saving machinery, even today, is not confined to economic illiterates. As late as 1970, a book appeared by a writer so highly regarded that he has since received the Nobel Prize in economics. His book opposed...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Fri, Jun 26 2009

Hyperinflation is a Small Price to Pay

The US is hurtling toward out-of-control inflation while the political class tries to convince the hoi polloi that inflation is not a problem. Government-generated CPI data show tame inflation. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims deflation, not...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Feb 22 2011

Inflation: The Last Gasp of the Obama Economic Crisis

Inflation: The Last Gasp of the Obama Economic Crisis Inflation is neither strategy nor solution; it is the last gasp of a desperate ruling class. Inflation is the inevitable ending of this awful economic crisis. The only questions are how much and when...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Aug 3 2010

Any length to prevent deflation

There are 4 things can cause deflation: 1. The supply of money goes down. 2. The supply of other goods goes up. 3. Demand for money goes up. 4. Demand for other goods goes down. However the Fed concern themselves entirely with the money supply and with...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Dec 4 2008

My Take on the ABCT (Simple Version)

Below is my take on the Austrian Business Cycle Theory. Stages 1. Money Supply Increase causes a general 2. Credit Supply Increase , which causes a general 3. Interest Rate Decrease , which causes a general 4. Longer Term Investment Increase , which causes...

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

Filed under: Economics, Federal Reserve, Business Cycle

Economics in One Lesson校译之8. Spread-the-Work Schemes

Spread-the-Work Schemes 第8章摊享工作机会 I HAVE REFERRED to various union make-work and featherbed practices. These practices, and the public toleration of them, spring from the same fundamental fallacy as the fear of machines. This is the belief that a more...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Wed, Jul 1 2009

School massacres happen in China too

China's spate of school violence: Lone madmen without guns Could it really be that gun control or lack there of is not what causes mad people to go on massacres in schools ... no way!

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Thu, Jun 3 2010

Filed under: ENGLISH, crime, gun-control

Eve of Destruction: As a result of conservatives' quasi-religious love of corporations and statist capitalism, Al Franken's comments about the Supreme Court actually seem perceptive

1. As prologue, I refer to my earlier posts on (1) corporate "free speech", campaign contributions and the recent Citizens United decision , and (2) grants by states of corporate status, especially so-called "limited liability" (zero...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Jun 19 2010

El Derecho a No Obedecer - V - Algunas ideas generales

Presentamos este documento, escrito en el año 1919, por el Maestro Fernando González, conocido como el Filósofo de Otraparte, o también como el Filósofo de Envigado (Colombia). Veremos la coincidencia de sus ideas con...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Jun 27 2009

It's the product, stupid!

So, today (4-DEC-08) on WLS AM890 one of Illinois's congress critters (I didn't catch which one) is being interviewed on the big three bailout. He says their plans lack anything about how to increase sales. The plans are about how they need loans...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Thu, Dec 4 2008

Mont Pelerin and The Property and Freedom Socities

Mises.org spearheaded by the Mises Institute has been instrumental in my intellectual growth. I wondered, were there any other organizations (as opposed to just websites/webcontent) with the similar scope of the Mises Institute on Free Markets, Austrian...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Sat, Jul 5 2008

Technology Entrepreneurs & Statism

I just read Tim Swanson's latest post on LRC. It talks about Obama's proposal for a Chief Technology Officer, and how several key people in the tech industry are supporting it. As someone who pays close attention to the technology industry, I've...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Aug 30 2008

Filed under: technology