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Economics in One Lesson校译之16. “Stabilizing” Commodities

“Stabilizing” Commodities 第16章 “稳定”物价 Attempts to lift the prices of particular commodities permanently above their natural market levels have failed so often, so disastrously and so notoriously that sophisticated pressure groups...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sun, Jul 5 2009

The Fed Feints

The Fed Feints By Monty Pelerin , posted February 20th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/02/20/the-fed-feints/ Great hoopla over the Federal Reserve’s surprise decision to raise the discount rate 0.25 % fills the media and the markets. Pundits...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Feb 20 2010

Filed under: Fed, bernanke, QE

A View from the Trenches, August 20th, 2009: Focus on China

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com/martin What a day! As we wrote on Tuesday that it was possible to have both treasuries and stocks rallying, we saw exactly just that happening in front of our eyes a day later, to...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Aug 19 2009

The State as Inimical to Man

The state is inherently inimical to man. Human beings are characterized by the fact that they act. As Ludwig von Mises pointed out, we are just as much homo agens as homo sapiens . To act is to behave with purpose: that is, to deliberate upon and choose...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: Political Philosophy, Ludwig von Mises

A View from the Trenches, May 20th, 2010: "Angela, you have the right to remain silent"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-20-2010 In our view, nothing really new has taken place, except for the German reaction on Tuesday to deteriorating market conditions. We have already addressed the issue of the systemic risk...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, May 20 2010

Understanding Poverty: Social Networks at the Bottom

Caplan's got an interesting post summarizing Portfolio - a book I haven't read. Bryan's most interesting comment about the book: Yes, the world's poor are striving to better their lot. But what they really need isn't small-scale entrepreneurship...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Mon, Jun 1 2009

Filed under: development, microfinance

Gainfully employed!!!

Once again a thousand apologies for such delays between posts, I am sad to report that much of the same can be expected for at least another month or so as I am finalizing my dissertation and defending in the very near future. As for the title of the...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Mar 6 2008

Filed under: News

Haití: La maldición blanca

por Eduardo Galeano http://cultural.argenpress.info/2010/01/haiti-la-maldicion-blanca.html El primer día de este año, la libertad cumplió dos siglos de vida en el mundo. Nadie se enteró, o casi nadie. Pocos días después...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Fri, Jan 29 2010

Economics in One Lesson校译之1. The Lesson

PART ONE: THE LESSON The Lesson 第一编主旨第1章关于这堂课 Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Nov 29 2008

A View from the Trenches, July 16th, 2009: "Change is in the air"

( To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) Voila! Yesterday equity markets in North America rallied about 3% on average, in the face of high unemployment, a Fed that acknowledges...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jul 15 2009

Obama Pivots 360, Announces Change in Direction.

How would I sum up last night's State of the Union Speech? He talked about change but gave the same old speech. The problem with politicians is that they believe their own propaganda. The truth is, Mr. Obama and his party don't realize why they...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Jan 28 2010

Filed under: Barack Obama, State of the Union, Pivot

The Boom was the Financial Crisis

http://freemmm.blogspot.com/2008/10/boom-was-financial-crisis.html

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Wed, Oct 8 2008

Filed under: financial crisis, boom, bust

En Colombia: Si se puede

Por Rafael Uribe en su Crónica semanal La Corte Suprema de Justicia demostró dos cosas: la primera, que era factible nombrar Fiscal ajustando el reglamento, la nueva Fiscal no hubiese podido ser elegida bajo el sistema anterior que exigía...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Dec 6 2010

Two recent publications

Two recent publications are now available online: 1. Who's to blame for all the heartache: A response to anti-capitalistic mentalities after Katrina and 2. Tattoo Prohibition Behind Bars: The Case for Repeal Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Jul 24 2008

Filed under: publications, katrina, tattoos

Critical Realism: What is it and what does it have to do with economics?

Critical Realism is a philosophical movement that has been gaining some ground in the past few years. It is an approach to philosophy that encompasses epistemology, ontology, and to some extent, morality. It approaches the world as being made up of “structures...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Mon, Jul 20 2009