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A View from the Trenches, March 8th, 2010: "From counterparty risk to systemic risk"

We want to write a few thoughts today, before we leave, on Wednesday, to attend the Austrian Scholars Conference, at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, in the USA. If we are able, we will write from there our impressions on the different topics and views...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Mar 7 2011

Mises and Sapolsky

I haven't blogged in a while, because I just spent a couple (very busy) weeks in NH with Operation Live Free or Die . It was amazing to meet so many people so very dedicated to liberty as our founding fathers knew it. When I returned from NH, I found...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Wed, Jan 9 2008

The Fat Lady is Resting

The Fat Lady is Resting By Monty Pelerin , on March 31st, 2010 There is a dangerous complacency regarding this economic crisis. Many believe we have seen the worst and are back to business as usual. The stock market has made a miraculous recovery. Some...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Mar 31 2010

Filed under: economic crisis, currency, treasuries

Results of the Consumer Credit Protection Act

Thanks to the CCPA that has put an overwhelming amount of new regulation on the Credit Card industry, I have received a letter from my Credit Provider with the following good news: My current APR of Prime Rate + 6.65% has changed. It is now locked at...

Posted to Schwartz by Andrew Schwartz on Tue, Mar 9 2010

Filed under: Government Regulation, Congress, CCPA, Credit Card

opinions are cheap

The problem with politicians and democracy in 30 words or fewer: A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own ideas. Mark Pattison , 1885. Never heard of him until I found this...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Thu, Apr 1 2010

Filed under: politicians

Sudha Shenoy, RIP

As many of you have by now already heard the bad news is that the dear Sudha Shenoy, hostorian, scholar and all around wonderful person has passed away from a bout with cancer. She will be sorely missed. In reading several obits ( 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 )...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Jun 4 2008

Filed under: sudha shenoy

A View from the Trenches, September 8th, 2009: "The beginning of the '10s depression?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com With Labor Day over, perhaps it has never been so clear that a new phase in the capital markets story is being written. What are we talking about? As I mentioned earlier, I am currently...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Sep 7 2009

BP: Unless we are to get lost in legal fictions, like Harry Shearer we must look beyond the shareholder curtain

Another BP post ! Rand Paul might not be a good libertarian, but satirist Harry Shearer , in his piece " A Word to BP Shareholders ", asks exactly the right questions: The media, and the Prime Minister, have also been insistent about the economic...

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

Filed under: A Word to BP Shareholders

Menger on Orders of Goods

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 1 . Previously in this series: Menger on Goods Menger's calls goods which satisfy needs directly "goods of the first order"...

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

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics

Great to see this feature on Mises.org!

Boy, every few weeks the LvM Institute makes another change to innovate the message of liberty. Kudos yet again!

Posted to libertymaniac by libertymaniac on Mon, Oct 8 2007

A View from the Trenches, April 17th, 2011: "Confirming our previous call"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: april-18-2011 Two weeks ago, we called our readers’ collective attention towards gold, noting that: “… we think higher highs are soon to come… ”. A week ago, we expressed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Apr 18 2011

A quick recap as at Oct. 5th 2010

As I wrote before: 1.-I still see a much, much clearer landscape supporting gold than stocks. Why? Because the rise in gold is based on the uncoordinated monetary policies, that generate relative price changes affecting stocks in different ways, but affecitng...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Oct 5 2010

Follow The Mises Institute on Twitter: ASC etc.

If you're a Twitter user, you can now follow The Mises Institute below: http://twitter.com/mises The comments have been fabulous

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

A Few Questions ... Some Answers

Freedom is intimately associated with discipline. Freedom without discipline portends doom oftener than not. In Economic sphere, this discipline will have to be derivable from, or will lead to ethical behaviour. It is important to understand the intimate...

Posted to Ethiconomics by Arthashastri on Thu, Oct 9 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Economics

More of Washington's Charade

More of Washington's Charade By Monty Pelerin , posted March 27th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/27/more-of-washingtons-charade/ The Fantasy World as Seen by The Federal Reserve and The Washington Post Is our populace considered so ignorant...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Mar 27 2010

Filed under: Fed, bernanke, Washington Post