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Carta al Canciller de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro

http://www.rroopstr.com http://www.riverocooper.com Estimado Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela: Deseo en primer lugar agradecerles por haber tomado en cuenta favorablemente a finales...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sun, Jul 12 2009

A View from the Trenches, August 30th, 2010: "Did Friday mark the start of a new trend?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: august-30-2010 If I guaranteed you that I will buy an asset from you, would you go out to sell it like there is no tomorrow? If you did, one would conclude either that you did indeed trust me but...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Aug 30 2010

A View from the Trenches, May 26th, 2010: "More clouds on the horizon"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-26-2010 We have not written since last Thursday because in our view, nothing really new has taken place. We discussed why we were bearish of the Euro and bullish of gold, and so far, the market...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, May 26 2010

Presidents & Technology

It appears John McCain has admitted to not being able to use a computer. I've seen several conversations on the Internet about this subject....on why it is (or isn't) important that he know how to use computers. I personally could care less. My...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Tue, Jul 29 2008

Filed under: President, technology

A View from the Trenches, February 22nd, 2011: "Three macro themes"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-22-2011 During the last two weeks, we think that three self-evident macro-themes began to develop. We can even venture to add that these themes may stay with us longer than at this is imaginable...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Feb 20 2011

A View from the Trenches, May 2nd, 2011: "We understand you, Ben"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-2-2011 Today we could discuss the most important developments that have unfolded since we last wrote on April 18th. We could discuss the rationale of Greece’s debt restructuring, the monetary...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, May 2 2011

The Worldview of the Theologos

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Thales and Deductive Geometry. Aristotle distinguished between two kinds of thinkers. There were the theologi and the physiologi . Logos means "account"...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 13 2009

Filed under: Homer, Theology

As Callahan and Richman laud consumer/moral pressure on polluters, others tell us a BP boycott is stupid

Another BP post ! I noted in a post yesterday that Sheldon Richman has recently suggested that the best, nonstatist way to deal with climate change is " through a voluntary social movement that promoted an ethic [of] encouraging and pressuring people...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 17 2010

The Economic Crisis is Only a Symptom

The Economic Crisis is Only a Symptom By Monty Pelerin , posted February 20th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/02/20/the-economic-crisis-is-only-a-symptom/ There are few economic problems that don’t originate in politics. Originally, economics...

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

Filed under: constitution, founders, economic crisis, Mises

de Soto book review

My book review of Jesus Huerta de Soto's The Austrian school: Market order and entrepreneurial creativity, forthcoming in the Review of Austrian Economics has been posted online at Springer. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Sat, Dec 5 2009

A View from the Trenches, March 15th, 2011: "The EU misses another opportunity"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-15-2011 We are back from the 2011 Austrians Scholars Conference, at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, in the USA, where we were exposed to an incredible diversity of people and ideas. We highly...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Mar 14 2011

A View from the Trenches, August 10th, 2010: "Something is changing"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: august-10-2010 In our last letter, we had suggested that: “ …in the absence of any catalyst for a further widening of the 3-mo Euribor-OIS spread vs. 3-mo Libor – OIS spread, the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Aug 10 2010

Poor Getting Richer?

“… as long as the Schumpeterian horse of innovation and the Smithian horse of the gains from trade outrun the Government horse of stupidity, the winners will continue to be you, me and our children and grandchildren, even if the stupid horse...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Nov 27 2009

Filed under: liberty, income

A View from the Trenches, June 27th, 2011: "The game changed on Thursday, June 23rd"

Read this article in pdf format: june-27-2011 Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 was a day of infamy: The International Energy Agency surprised the world by announcing that 60MM barrels of oil would be released over 30 days, as an answer to the disruption of oil...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jun 27 2011

China May Not Be Answer

China May Not Be Answer By Monty Pelerin , posted April 16th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/04/16/9878/ China is supposed to be the engine of growth that gets us out of the economic crisis. The following document suggests that is unlikely to...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Apr 17 2010

Filed under: China, bubble