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A View from the Trenches, November 24th 2009: "Introducing Thesis No. 3"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com The widespread impression that the US deficit will continue set all non-money assets on a rally yesterday. Gold reached $1,174/oz. As we said many, many times over, it is as simple...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Nov 24 2009

Welcome to Radical Idealism

Freedom is the most radically utopian ideal of all. What is freedom? Politically, freedom is the absence of coercion. Psychologically, freedom is the ability to consistently follow reason and one's own values wherever they may lead. What is radicalism...

Posted to Radical Idealism by David V on Tue, Oct 30 2007

Filed under: utopia, radicalism, Freedom

Economics, Climategate and Defending the Fed

Economics, Climategate and Defending the Fed By Monty Pelerin , posted December 12th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/12/economics-climategate-and-defending-the-fed/ The corruption of science is now out in the open with the Climategate emails...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Dec 12 2009

Filed under: Fed, Acton, Hulsmann

2010 Will Be Worse

2010 Will Be Worse By Monty Pelerin , posted January 5th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/05/2010-will-be-worse/ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Despite the rising stock market, virtually everything else continues to deteriorate in the economy...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Jan 5 2010

Filed under: economy, no recovery

Israeli central bank shenanigans \ מעללי בנק ישראל

Israel's central bank has commenced a program to purchase government bonds in open market operations to the tune of 200 million NIS a day since 2/17/09 (this may sound like nothing but remember Israel's economy is very small). Coincidentally,...

Posted to Making Economic Sense by giladr on Sun, Jun 7 2009

A View from the Trenches, January 6th, 2010: "Contemporary comments"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-6-20091 In my view, the main factor driving markets yesterday continued to be the concern on the housing sector. The release of the month-over-month Pending Home sales data at -16% vs. a ...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jan 6 2010

A View from the Trenches, November 23rd, 2009: "Rates, Keynes and Bayesian probability"

Although the past week did not seem to show a fair amount of important trading or direction, I think that it was a relevant week nevertheless. Monetary authorities and government have made it very clear, if there ever were any hesitations, that at least...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Nov 23 2009

A View from the Trenches, March 29th, 2010: "The Euro crisis, Stage 2: The infection of the banking system"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-29-2010 The main factor driving last week’s action was the summit of the European Union, and its declarations regarding Greece (We could also include the US Healthcare bill as another...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Mar 28 2010

A View from the Trenches, December 2nd, 2010: "Signs you can believe in"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: december-2-2010 Again, most of the action this week has been driven by speculation on the future of the European Union. Let’s begin today by repeating what we left with a week ago, when we changed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Dec 2 2010

A View from the Trenches, August 18th, 2009: Which way is it going to go?

Normal 0 false false false Inevitably, we need to discuss yesterday’s events. I must confess I read and reread all sorts of comments dating back to two weeks ago, encompassing a wide spectrum of opinions. There are the uber bears, telling us we...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Aug 17 2009

A View from the Trenches, February 25th, 2010: "The trend remains bearish"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-25-2010 We are back from a relaxing vacation and strangely glad to see that not much has happened since we last wrote. Indeed, the markets bounced from the lows we went through earlier this...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Feb 24 2010

El Derecho a No Obedecer - XII - De cómo la división del trabajo hace difíciles las guerras

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 Mon, Jul 6 2009

A View from the Trenches, February 7th, 2011: "Green light until March?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-7-2011 We start this week with what we ended the last one. In our view, the two main concerns or sources of volatility that remain from last week are the situation in Egypt and the uncertainty...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Feb 6 2011

Write up from last nights news appearance

Just a small quote, but the video is up this time. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Tue, Apr 14 2009

Who to blame under democracy?

In No Treason the democratic government is described as a secret band of murderers and thieves, it's members unknown to their victims as well as each other and made accountable to no one. In this sense democracy is a much more horrific form of government...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Sun, Jan 10 2010

Filed under: ENGLISH, democracy