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Krugman proves whats popular isnt always right....

I could start this blog with a long winded declaration of what Paul Krugman has done, but I assume that most people have at least heard the rhetoric that he spews. For the longest time, I have heard that the Nobel Prize in all of its forms is a prize...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Mon, Oct 13 2008

Y'all ain't Japanese

A national economy is made up of many organisations and individuals. The activities of some will be profitable and the activities of others will not. The mechansim which ensures that the majority of activities in an economy are profitable (and thus the...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Dec 18 2008

The apathy non-vote

I concede. I don't vote because of apathy. That is, a real lack of pathos for the racket that is the state. I hold no general pathetic feeling, only that it is pathetic in the pejorative sense. Many feathers are ruffled over the squawk of not voting...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Oct 29 2008

Bob Murphy, Implicit Apologist for Coal, Misconstrues the Real Debate & Lessons from "Climategate"

Bob Murphy recently offered LvMI readers a post; "Apologist Responses to Climategate Misconstrue the Real Debate" ; I left a few comments in response (minor edits). (My apologies to Bob for borrowing and tweaking his title.) Bob, interesting...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Dec 7 2009

Filed under: climate change, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley

A View from the Trenches, March 18th, 2012: "On gold, stocks, financial repression and the KreditAnstalt of 1931"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: March 18 2012 We are back from Washington DC and realize that we could choose different titles for today’s letter. Let’s try a few… Title No.1: “The market proved us wrong”...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Mar 18 2012

Filed under: Atlantic, KreditAnstalt, correlation, stocks, central banks, Greece, gold, Fed, financial repression, swaps, price system, 1931, ECB, Hayek, currency swaps

Qué sabemos acerca de los bancos? - Parte I

Octubre de 2007 Por Sergei D. Lozovoi-Koscheev – ver su Blog Reconomics Aquellos de nosotros que estudiamos Economía conocemos la capacidad que tienen los bancos de crear dinero. Este concepto es introducido en cada curso de estudios universitarios...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Oct 6 2007

Jared Diamond: Those in stateless societies "enjoy" lives that are murderous and short

Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 30 2008

Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond

Anarchism and Atheism, Theism and Statism

Anarchism and atheism are both defined in negative terms. As general paradimes they do not actually advocate any particular belief or system of organization. They represent the lack of a belief. Atheism is a lack of belief in deities and religions, while...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Dec 28 2007

Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Religion, Atheism

Mendel and Mises Walk into a Bar . . .

In the seventies Richard Dawkins acheived great fame when he wrote a book called The Selfish Gene , now I haven't actually read the book, but it does contain the idea of memes, which are units of cultural information and analogous to genes. Memetics...

Posted to The Spirit of Liberty by TigerofRobare on Sun, Oct 14 2007

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

Sarah Palin's innovations: further sanctions ! / Las innovaciones de Sarah Palin: ¡más sanciones!

Sarah Palin's innovations: further sanctions! I am outragred. Sarah Palin just proposed imposing sanctions to Venezuela. Why do I, my family or friends have to endure sanctions? Who is she to decide on my economic welfare? Many of my people are used...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Wed, Oct 22 2008

Is Deflation Better?

http://libertyisnow.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-deflation-better.html Subscribe by Email Is Deflation Better? by Alex Merced I constantly speak about the dangers of inflation (increase in the money supply), and inflationary pressures of a growing government...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Wed, Apr 7 2010

Filed under: Money, Prices, Economics, Price levels, Money Supply, Arbritage, Investment, Taxation, Risk, Banking, Treasuries, Inflation

Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall!

This week we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of one of the 20th Century's most shining moments - the Fall of the Berlin Wall. A barrier that represented far more than an edifice of concrete and steel. The Berlin Wall represented a rift across...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Nov 10 2009

Filed under: Lemmings, socialism, capitalism, Freedom, Republican, democrat, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Pelosi, Berlin Wall, Harry Reid, totalitarianism, Communist, Barack Obama, lemming, liberalty, opperssion

T. Boone Pickens accelerates the tragedy of the Western water commons - by connecting thirsty markets to unowned, common-pool resources

The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jun 15 2008

Filed under: tragedy of commons, commons, yandle, water rights, David Zetland, Pickens

Lost in the language market

"I'm all lost in the supermarket can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality" Lost in the Supermarket, The Clash In the most recent Republican debate, candidate Rudy Giuliani professed his belief...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sun, Jan 27 2008

Filed under: market, services, English, lost, the state, rudy giuliani, skills, language, Spanish