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A View from the Trenches, May 10th, 2010: "What to expect when you are expecting"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-10-2010 We had finished our comments below last night. Subsequently, a myriad of announcements have been made by policymakers. We will deal with them in our next letter. But briefly, besides the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, May 10 2010

Healthcare Deform

Healthcare Deform By Monty Pelerin , posted March 31st, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/31/healthcare-deform/ I received the following email from a friend. I don’t know the doctor but thought his take on the new healthcare reform was worthwhile...

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

Filed under: healthcare

A View from the Trenches, January 26th, 2011: "A Euro at $1.50?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-26-2011 This is a week during which the global markets’ tectonic plates are shifting, and the shift is not too quiet. Our letter today will sound more like a monologue rather than a...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jan 25 2011

Feasts to cure famine

You might replace locusts and wolves in this short story with central banks and governments... but that didn't quite have the dramatic effect that I was after and I would have had to break the flow of the story a bit to explain a whole bunch of other...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Fri, Dec 5 2008

A View from the Trenches, March 18th, 2010: "The winter of our dynamic inflation"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-18-2010 Since European leaders confirmed their support to Greece a few days ago and the Fed repeated that “economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Mar 17 2010

HuffPo covers zombie parasitism in the wild; in our economies, government/corporate-statism parasitism more akin to cannibalism

There's good news in that people are statrting to see parallels between parasitism in nature - particularly the striking 'zombie parasitism where the parasite controls the behavior of its host - and our ruling class ... even as our tribal impulses...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Mar 3 2011

A View from the Trenches, September 14th, 2010: "What potential output?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-14-2010 Since our last letter, nothing relevant has taken place. The world keeps bidding for risk since the announcement that banks are not going to be required to raise capital as fast...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Sep 14 2010

A View from the Trenches, December 18th, 2009: "The European convergence"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: december-18-2009 The world seems to have radically changed in the past sessions and it is important not to lose track of the fundamental logic that was behind the action in 2009 and will possibly...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Dec 17 2009

Political Cannibalism Democrat Style

Political Cannibalism Democrat Style By Monty Pelerin , posted December 16th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/16/political-cannibalism-democrat-style/ Does President Obama want to make new friends or alienate old ones? That is the interesting...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Dec 16 2009

Filed under: obama, state deficits, stimulus, election

A View from the Trenches, January 12th, 2010: "On the volatility of fixed exchange rates"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-13-2009 As we woke up early on Tuesday, we learned that the People’s Bank of China had raised its auction rate on 1-yr bill by 8bps, or 100% higher than the expected 4bps. Together with...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jan 13 2010

A View from the Trenches, November 13th, 2009: Don't blame crude oil!

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com After the close of yesterday’s session, commentators attributed the drop in equities (S&P500 closed at 1087.24 or -1.03%) to the Crude Inventory Report. Indeed, it was after...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Nov 12 2009

A View from the Trenches, April 8th, 2010: "The landscape has changed"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: april-8-2010 We’re back from Chicago, where we spent the Easter weekend, a holiday in Canada. Since last week, we have the feeling that some changes of consequence have taken place at the macro...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Apr 7 2010

A View from the Trenches, March 1st, 2010: "Comments on Ron Paul's article: "Are US taxpayers bailing out Greece? ""

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-1-2010 Over the weekend, we came across an article from U.S. Congressman and former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, with whom we sympathize (refer: www.ronpaul.com ). The article was titled...

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

Tele 2 skriver inte på censur

Tele 2 har vägrat förnya samarbetet med polisen. Det är en trevligt överaskning och frisk vind att ett företag som Tele 2 vägrar skriva på en lista vars utallade syfte är att bekämpa barnporr. Det förefaller...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Fri, Mar 27 2009

Filed under: SVENSKA, yttrandefrihet

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

The Law by Frederic Bastiat By Monty Pelerin , posted December 11th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/11/the-law-by-frederic-bastiat/ Frederic Bastiat was the most influential economic essayist ever. He died in 1850. His “broken window...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Dec 11 2009

Filed under: Bastiat, The Law