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Ben Bernanke Was Wrong: Featured on Mises.org

My piece Ben Bernanke Was Wrong is a Daily Article today on the Mises Institute web site. Here is the article and the comments page. I've fleshed out my commentary on the transcription to make it more of an actual article. I've also updated the...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Filed under: General, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke

The Fed: from bad to worse instead of good to great

Yesterday at Austrian Economists , Pete was puzzled how the political rhetoric behind the financial crisis managed to wind its way around the topic of executive rewards. Some people were using the platform to voice concerns about wealth, greed and inequality...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Sep 26 2008

Filed under: good to great, financial crisis, greenspan, leadership

Prices, and Production: Lecture II, Part I

Lecture 2: “The Conditions between the Production of Consumers' Goods, and the Production of Producers' Goods” In order to understand how prices influence the amount of goods produced, it is necessary to understand the causes behind...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Sat, May 23 2009

Filed under: F.A. Hayek, Prices and Production, Hayek, economics, theory of capital, prices

Night, Day, and Induction

As I discussed in my last post, Hesiod's Eros (Love) can be thought of as a motive force that brings entities to come together (much like gravity) and to create. Khaos felt Eros , the urge or internal force that made it seek to give birth. And what...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sun, Jun 7 2009

Filed under: Epistemology, Hesiod, Cosmology

A View from the Trenches, June 24th, 2009: "How do you sort this out?"

(On yesterday’s letter, there was an error. On the first sentence, I meant to say that the Treasury was auctioning $104BN in T-bills and coupons this week. Instead, I said the Fed was. This is what happens when I write at midnight!) I don’t...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jun 23 2009

A View from the Trenches, January 16, 2012: "There is no decoupling"

This is our first letter of 2012. The year started with a mini rally that every analyst out there attributes to something called “decoupling”. Why? Because the strength in asset inflation, although global in nature, is particularly more solid...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Fri, Feb 24 2012

Social Graphs v. Marx

In my last post, I mentioned Robert Sapolsky's response to The Edge Annual Question - 2008 . As I continued to read the other responses to the question, I came across Tim O'Reilly's response , which is about the importance of social graphs...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sun, Jan 20 2008

Links

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. How much stimulus will go to the police state? Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Feb 9 2009

Filed under: crime, stimulus, sentencing, police

A View from the Trenches, June 18th, 2009: "The markets are castling"

One has the feeling the markets are sort of “castling”, as in a chess game. Castling is an interesting move. It allows reassigning resources (the rook) but also, in my opinion, it puts the ball back in your opponent’s court (the Fed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jun 17 2009

Don't legislate me

Growing up with five brothers, my parents had to be particularly careful that they were seen to be fair and just if all out war was not to ensue over the most trivial matters. One technique that we often used was that whoever cut the cake was the last...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: Bruno Leoni, Common Law, Legislation, Law, Freedom

Menger's Axioms

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 1 . Previously in this series: The Methodenstreit The Austrian economist who is thought to have brought the tradition to its apogee...

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

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics

A View from the Trenches, December 22nd, 2011: "Recap of 2011 and thoughts for 2012"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: december-22-2011 In the absence of further meaningful events, this will probably be our last letter of the year. Reflecting on our main macro thesis, things have played out the way we thought they...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Fri, Feb 24 2012

A View from the Trenches, June 17, 2009: "What if new Fed debt is the exit strategy?"

Last Friday, June 12th, Barclays Capital’s “Global Weekly Rates” report suggested that a possible exit strategy for the Fed may consist in the Fed’s issuance of debt. The hypothesis is not new. But from all the publications I read...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jun 16 2009

Is regret compatible with Praxeology?

Aristotle, upon whom Menger based some of his ideas, believed in the concept of akrasia. Akratic action is action that is known to be against an agent's own interests, but is pursued regardless. This is obviously incompatible with any rational choice...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Mon, Jul 13 2009

Don't arrest me bro.

These hoodlum libertarians will think twice before trying to celebrate the birth of a founding father again. Balko reports and makes the front page of digg this morning. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Apr 14 2008

Filed under: dancing, thomas jefferson, arrested