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Record Profits for Oil Companies...What Does it Mean?

With oil companies earning record profits, there have been calls for a "windfall profits" tax to be placed on them by the government. From an economic point of view, this totally ignores the meaning of profits and losses. Oil company profits...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Aug 4 2008

Filed under: supply and demand, oil

Erasmus

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics has published a summary of my dissertation in its inaugural issue. Read More...

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

Filed under: publication, imprisoner's dilemma

A View from the Trenches, March 25th, 2010: "On negative US swaps"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-25-2010 Where to start today? There is plenty to discuss, so we will try to summarize, if possible. Unfortunately, we think it is possible. Indeed, perhaps the most commented news yesterday...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Mar 24 2010

A View from the Trenches, June 16th, 2009: "Déjà vu "

Yesterday, investors looked for every excuse to rush to the exits. No definitions from policymakers, no confidence from investors. It is a very simple formula, very rational. On top of this, at 8:30am we had the release of the Empire Manufacturing Index...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jun 15 2009

A View from the Trenches, June 25th, 2009: On the state of confidence

Growing up in an arid ranch in northwestern Patagonia (Province of Neuquén), I remember that one summer evening, I noticed a very small crack in one of the many irrigation channel gates that we had for the alfalfa lots. Only a thin thread of water...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jun 25 2009

The Newly Created Office of Socialism and Fascism

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/newly-created-position-ofs-office-of.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Mon, Oct 6 2008

Filed under: fascism, bailouts, socialism, financial crisis

Escaping Leviathan moves

I have now moved this blog to the Mises.org community . First of all I want to thank the Ludwig von Mises Institute for providing this excellent service. There is still some work left moving the blog roll and such but it will be done shortly. The benefits...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Thu, Jan 28 2010

Filed under: ENGLISH

Defining Heterodox Economics

How should we decide whether a school of economic thought is heterodox or mainstream? The line is not always very clear. We can safely say that economics in the style of Paul Samuelson, the neoclassical synthesis, is mainstream, but that is an easy case...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Sun, Jul 5 2009

Prices, and Production: Lecture II, Part IV

At last we are ready to begin the main problem of this lecture, that is the problem of how a transition to a more capitalistic structure of production, or vice versa, is brought about, and what are the conditions that must be fulfilled for a new equilibrium...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Sat, Jun 6 2009

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

Thoughts on morality and action

I have been thinking a lot lately about ethics and morality, and one concept i keep coming back to is that morality is tied in with human action, in the misesian sense. Morality and ethics addresses with the implications of human actions, and attaching...

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

Filed under: action ludwig mises

Our President is Delusional

Our President is Delusional By Monty Pelerin , posted March 15th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/15/our-president-is-delusional/ President-of-the-World Obama is at it again. Apparently he feels the problems in this country are too small for...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Mon, Mar 15 2010

Filed under: obama, delusional, entrepreneurship

A View from the Trenches, August 4th, 2009: "Updating the forecast"

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) We are back from a relaxing time with friends, at the shores of Lake Huron, only to find that I may have now to update my views...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Aug 4 2009

Inflation "Targeting"

What if the Fed set a goal for themselves to contain inflation at 3%? Let's assume (and this is a huge assumption) that government can control its spending to the point where 3% inflation is maintained. Is this the ticket to success? Well let's...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Jul 28 2008

Filed under: inflation, federal reserve

"A view from the Trenches", June 8, 2009: The answer is political = Exogenous

(This blog is also posted on my personal website: www.sibileau.com/martin , where you can read this article in pdf format) Since last Thursday (Tincho’s letter is not published on Fridays), the world has gotten a bit more complex. We have been saying...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Jun 7 2009

The Great Recession of 2011-2012

The Great Recession of 2011-2012 By Monty Pelerin , posted March 8th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/08/the-great-recession-of-2011-2012/ A lengthy article focuses on the problems ahead. It appeared in the February American Spectator .

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Mar 10 2010

Filed under: economy, American Spectator