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A View from the Trenches, February 8th, 2010: "On the Euro crisis: It's an institutional crisis, not a short-term liquidity crisis"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-8-2010 During the weekend, we did a fair bit of reading and, among other things, watched an interview Mr. Martin Redrado (now ex-President of the Banco Central de la República Argentina...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Feb 7 2010

Tackling a Stock Market Myth

Stock Prices Up = Good Stock Prices Down = Bad Is this correct? Anyone familiar with shorting knows that it's not correct. Some people make a very good living profiting off price declines. Try telling them that lower prices are bad. However, if you...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Sat, Aug 9 2008

Filed under: stock market

El problema de la reforma

Por Christopher Westley. (Publicado el 9 de abril de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/4225 . [ Common Sense School Reform • Frederick M. Hess • Nueva York: Palgrave...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Apr 11 2010

Filed under: Christopher Westley, educación, Frederick Hess

Argentina: doscientos años de soledad

Tomás Eloy Martínez – EL PAIS (España) – Octubre 29 de 2009 La Argentina se ha ido tornando impredecible, un enigma ante el que se estrellan todas las respuestas. ¿Cómo imaginar el futuro inmediato entre...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Fri, Dec 4 2009

A View from the Trenches, August 6th, 2009: "Not so fast!"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com/martin I am a bit more confused today than I was yesterday. I was hoping to see a bear flattening in the yield curve, indicating that implementation of an exit strategy by the Fed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Aug 5 2009

El Derecho a No Obedecer - VII - Que trata del progreso

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 Tue, Jun 30 2009

On Foreign Minister Maduro's reaction to Hillary's Globovisión interview

Dear Minister of the Popular Power for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro: I would like first of all to thank you for having favorably received, toward the end of last year, my opinions regarding the restablishment...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Jul 16 2009

Filed under: Venezuela, unawareness, issues, Maduro, bilateral, misunderstanding, Bolivarian, Hillary, U.S. foreign policy

"Chavismo puede llegar a su fin en 2010"

por Carolina Barros de Ámbito Financiero Ideólogo del Socialismo del Siglo XXI , ve posibilidad real de Guerra Colombia-Venezuela Varias voces en Venezuela empiezan a advertir sobre las grietas de la revolución chavista. Que, de tan...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Jan 16 2010

The Gap between politics and economics

For all the recent talk about a unified nation there seem to be some undeniable rifts in opinion as of lately. First a brief comment on partisanship. As I already mentioned I've been watching the stimulus package committee meetings on CSPAN and they...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Jan 26 2009

Filed under: stimulus, politics, profession

A View from the Trenches, November 30th, 2009: "A chart is worth more than a thousand words"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Today’s letter is very brief and is the continuation of Friday’s, which at the same time, constitutes another good test of our Thesis No. 2 on gold, postulated on April...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Nov 29 2009

Filed under: Martin Sibileau, Dubai Gold Bank of Japan Abu Dhabi reserve asset 3-mo Libor - OIS spread VIX S&amp, P500

The Illusion of a "Standard" of Life

The Illusion of a "Standard" of Life by Alex Merced Government constantly uses the concept of a "standard" of life in justifying it's policies in the name of improving this standard. Can there really be a standard, this is only...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Mon, Apr 19 2010

Filed under: Statistics, Values, Standard of Life, Preferences, Subjective, GDP

Economic Summit Insult to the Intelligence of Citizens or Revelation of Obama’s

By Monty Pelerin , posted December 4th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/04/economic-summit-insult-to-the-intelligence-of-citizens-or-revelation-of-obamas/ Any Econ 101 student would flunk the course if he showed the aptitude of this Administration...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Dec 4 2009

Filed under: economy, obama, politics, Government, employment, Geithner, credibility, failing, president

i aim to misbehave.

As sure as I know anything, I know this: they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. One year from now — ten — they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. I do not hold...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Thu, Oct 1 2009

Filed under: revolution, TV, reviews, movies

Ask Not...

Oh for the days of liberals like John F. Kennedy! I recently watched Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address on YouTube. (See it --> here .) It was filled not with grandiose, government, give-away programs, but with rhetoric about how we as citizens of...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Aug 3 2009

Menger on Property

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 2 . Previously in this series: Menger on Economizing We do not live in paradise. There is always scarcity: requirements in society...

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

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics