Blogs

Re: Beware The Chartist

Burt Blumert wrote an interesting article on LRC about chartists (or market-technicians). While I certainly understand Mr. Blumert's sentiment, I don't entirely agree with him. I think a major error that many chartists make is that they think...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Oct 4 2008

Filed under: stock market

Thoughts On Punishment

I think I reject the traditional concept of punishment (this is not to say that I'm opposed to measures that compensate victims though, because that isn't really punishment in the way I'm thinking of it, since the emphasis is on the victim's...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Oct 4 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Crime and Punishment

Great idea? Corporations create a patent commons in order to protect the environmental commons!

Or a frightful thought - corporations cooperating with greenies to advance shared goals? By sharing patents for free in order to clean up the environment and limit environmental footprints, are corporations being co-opted by socialists? What corporations...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 3 2008

Filed under: commons, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, CSR, intellectual property, patents

New RAND report says we need more competent military interventions! How about fewer of them?

Press release here . Here is the full document . Maybe the collapse of our financial deck of cards will introduce a small reordering of Americans' priorities - enough to stiffen spines and to provide a reality check on the misuse by politicians and...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 3 2008

Filed under: defense establishment

The Prearranged, Preplanned, and Premeditated Bailout

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/prearranged-bailout.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Oct 2 2008

Another great piece on the bailout

Hat tip to Pete at Austrian Economists. Here's Chris at Notablog on A Crisis of Political Economy. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Oct 2 2008

Anatomy of a Lemming

Lemmus trimucronatus is a medium-sized rodent, a little bigger than a rat, that lives in cool climates. They are sort of like tundral-ground hogs. Back in the late fifties the Disney nature documentary "White Wilderness" showed a herd of lemmings...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Oct 1 2008

Filed under: Bail out, congress, Lemmings, Bailout, Iraq War, 750 billion

Those Small Government Republicans

Arianna Huffington writes : Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address, famously declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Twenty-seven years later, in the midst of the worst economic crisis...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Sep 29 2008

Filed under: regulation, interventionism

What you need to know about the economic "crisis"

Economics is not a complicated science. This may not seem obvious to you if you've following the news from Washington, where a cabal of politicians, financiers and lobbyists have been spent the last several weeks desperately making a series of increasingly...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Mon, Sep 29 2008

Filed under: business cycles, ABCT, inflation, Economics

The Elloquent Steve Horwitz

Not only a great crash course in recent financial regulatory history, not only a sound presentation of the insights of constitutional political economy, but also an enjoyable read digestible to the everyman. A great thanks to Steve, for producing such...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Sep 29 2008

Filed under: financial crises, steve horwirz

Ron Paul - Beyond The Election

In 1962, Mises wrote in the preface of The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth : “...I did not indulge in the vain hope that my account would prevent the impending catastrophe to which the policies adopted by the European nations were manifestly leading...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sun, Sep 28 2008

Filed under: ron paul

Language: The toothpick of politics

Language in the course of politics today is like a toothpick—it is forever being used to clean the people of ugly little blemishes that would otherwise keep them from smiling. For example, take the recent buyout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. What...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, Sep 27 2008

Filed under: language, government

Debate Reactions

I did not watch the first "debate" last night. But, I have read a bunch of reactions from both the left and right. 100% of them thought that 'their guy' won the debate. I didn't see one defector from either side. This brought up...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Sep 27 2008

Filed under: debate

Mises U ?

Just curious about Mises U. I looked into it and it would cost a minimum of $2,650.00 for me to be able to go. As it is now I just can't justify the expediture (I would make a great president wouldn't I?). But I am willing to listen to arguements...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Fri, Sep 26 2008

Filed under: Mises University.

Myopia

\ mī- ˈ ō-pē-ə\ — a lack of foresight or discernment; a narrow view of something The movie 'Blindness' is in theaters this weekend and I've always found it an interesting story, since it was first a novel. I'm not writing this post...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Fri, Sep 26 2008

Filed under: taxation, bail out, business cycle theory, washington mutual, blindness, austrian economics