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On yesteday's game changer

Hi everyone, I've been kind of busy lately, to write my letter. However, I did not want to miss the chance to explicitly note that what happened yesterday, with the GLOBAL nature of the intervention in the oil market (to help someone really affected...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Fri, Jun 24 2011

Fed Under Fire -- Throw on More Logs

Fed Under Fire -- Throw on More Logs By Monty Pelerin , posted April 12th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/04/12/fed-under-fire-throw-on-more-logs/ “The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government … are...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Mon, Apr 12 2010

Filed under: Fed, bernanke

A View from the Trenches, September 23rd, 2009: "Why I turned neutral on equities"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com I want to start today’s comments reiterating my neutral call on equities. This is on equities only, not on credit. Credit is undergoing a different dynamics. Again, my call...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Sep 22 2009

Introducing Works and Days

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Night, Day, and Induction . After receiving magical poetic powers from the Muses, Hesiod sailed to Euboea to compete in the funeral games of a local big...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Mon, Jun 8 2009

Introduction

Welcome to my blog: “The Critiques”, I pray that you will enjoy its content as well as find it a well written, and intriguing analysis. This inaugural blog post will be to explain what I intend to do here, and how I shall go about doing it...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Fri, Feb 6 2009

A View from the Trenches, September 16th, 2009: "We are getting there"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com In the last 24 hours, I think the markets may have focused on two things: 1.-Stronger than expected retail sales and Producer Price Index (PPI) figures for August, released at 8:30am...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Sep 15 2009

A View from the Trenches, November 11th, 2009: "It is not about expectations"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and markets are closed. Today marks the anniversary of the armistice in 1918, and my thoughts go out to all those who made the greatest sacrifice...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Nov 10 2009

A View from the Trenches, July 21st, 2009: "Getting ready for the next act"

( To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) At 15:06 ET yesterday, Bloomberg was reporting that CIT was obtaining a $3BN financial rescue from bondholders, temporarily avoiding...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 20 2009

A View from the Trenches, July 29th, 2010: "Earnings vs. macro picture"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-29-2010 From our vantage point, the last 72 hours are confirming our long-term perspective that the recent strength in the stock markets is baseless. There are currently two main arguments supporting...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jul 29 2010

A Sure Thing: Human Language and the Concept of Truth

An undergraduate paper for a film studies class entitled American Classic Cinema. I took a quote from A Sure Thing (1985) and used it to examine an academic establishment that largely ignores if not rejects the essential teachings of economics.

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Posted to Brent Mowery by Brent Mowery on Fri, Apr 9 2010

Filed under: a sure thing movie theory of knowledge epistemology relativism philosophy

Bambi och stora stygga vargen

Storskogen hade under många år varit en ganska säker plats. Den hade nämligen bevakats av tvåbenta rovdjur som höll vargarna borta. Men i år hade de tvåbenta djuren inte setts till och ryktena om vargattacker...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Wed, Jan 6 2010

Filed under: SVENSKA, djurrätt

A View from the Trenches, September 2nd, 2010: " Beware of coordination"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-02-2010 If we had to use one word to describe the action so far this week, we would pick “confusion”. Perhaps a reflection of it is the number of analysts that updated their...

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

Wisdom: Our Policy-Makers

By Monty Pelerin , posted December 1st, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/01/wisdom-our-policy-makers/ A few days ago in a post entitled Wisdom: To Whom You Listen is Important comments and forecasts from the 1930s were presented. The examples...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Dec 1 2009

Filed under: Fed, economics, bernanke

Economics in One Lesson校译之PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Preface to the First Edition 第一版序 This book is an analysis of economic fallacies that are at last so prevalent that they have almost become a new orthodoxy. The one thing that has prevented this has been their own self-contradictions, which have scattered...

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

Manipulation Overdrive

A few weeks ago I prepared a presentation addressing how the main stream media crafts headlines to cultivate the opinions of the American people. In order to vividly illustrate my point, I selected a prominent news story and printed the headlines from...

Posted to rrt00004 by rrt00004 on Sun, Sep 26 2010