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California math!??

I live in silicon valley, and just recently I dropped by my local Smoothie King to acquire a strawberry shredder smoothie (my favorite). While there, I noticed that the person serving behind the counter was studying her high school mathematics textbook...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Wed, Nov 14 2007

A View from the Trenches, September 5th, 2011: "There is no Black Swan"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-5-2011 In our last letter, we showed that our view from May 2010 is fully developing (We had stated that eventually money supply in the Eurozone would be determined by the growth in the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Sep 4 2011

What do we know about banks? PART II

Banking system has not always been like it is now. This is perhaps no surprise. However the fact that it seems now to be more sophisticated does not necessarily signifies progress. In fact it’s something else. What do we really know about banks? In the...

Posted to RECONOMICS by SSLK on Mon, Nov 26 2007

Filed under: money, banks, inflation, bysiness cycle

Futbol Monograph #2

I recently learned an interesting piece of trivia. As everyone knows, only Americans call soccer, ‘soccer’. In other countries it is variously known as football, futbol, fusball, or other variants of foot + ball. It makes sense, since soccer...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 25 2009

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

My all life hit parade

A reliable way of getting to know people is through the music they listen to. I have written a lot about issues but not much about me, so here I list the twenty songs that I have most obsessively listened to during my life. Any ranking is subjective,...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sun, Nov 8 2009

Pushing the Button

Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button Everyone has probably seen the commercials for the office supply company were all the person has to do is push the “easy” button and all their problems are solved. Every time I see that commercial I think about what...

Posted to IrishOutlaw by IrishOutlaw on Fri, Dec 28 2007

Filed under: IrishOutlaw, Libertarians, anarchy, Rothbard, free market

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

tantalite

Minerals have many applications for human use. The mineral tantalite is the main source for the chemical tantalum. The element tantalum plays an important rule in the manufacturing of electronic components like capacitors and high powered resistors. The...

Posted to Torsten by Torsten on Fri, Nov 28 2008

Filed under: metals, tantalum, tantalite, minerals, use-metals, demand, alloys

The Road Not Taken V: Libertarian hatred of misanthropic "watermelons" and the productive love of aloof ad-homs

I copy below a comment I just left at Stephan Kinsella `s post on the main LvMI Blog, " Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims ", which I have discussed here in several preceeding posts . TokyoTom Published...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Nov 4 2009

Filed under: Reisman, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Kinsella, Bradley, Murphy

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

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

Introductions

Welcome to my blog here on mises.com, I'm Thomas James and I'm hoping to discuss the merger of Austrian Economics with Personal Finance; sharing both services and hints I find useful and, hopefully, to fuel discussion on how to best deal with...

Posted to ThomasJames by ThomasJames on Sat, Sep 29 2007

Harold Bloom: "The Fall of America"

There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jan 18 2008

Filed under: state, war, Harold Bloom

The State Is

The State is not defined by what it does, but how it does it....

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Mon, Oct 15 2007