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Wingnut Ron Paul is in Good Company

Ron Paul is looked at by some as a modern day Don Quixote. His current windmill is the Federal Reserve, an institution not very well understood by the American public. For those who don’t understand the Fed, watch this video. Representative Paul...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sat, Nov 21 2009

Filed under: founders, Fed, paul

Prices and Production: Lecture II, Part II

The most essential feature of the capitalist system of production, as stated in the prior entry, is the fact that at any moment a larger quantity of the original means of production is being employed for the satisfaction of a future time. The raison d'...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Sun, May 31 2009

Good for Afghanistan, Good for America.

We all know that Afghanistan has one of the most corrupt governments on the planet. This is mainly due to the fact that it has never paid to be honest in Afghanistan. Since before Alexander's failed campaign over 2,000 years ago, Afghanistan has been...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Nov 18 2009

Filed under: Schools, US Institute of Peace, Afghanistan, National Solidarity Program, Taliban

Virtually every Western Democratic Government is insolvent.

Virtually every Western Democratic Government is insolvent. By Monty Pelerin , posted March 14th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/14/virtually-every-western-democratic-government-is-insolvent/ Virtually every Western democratic government is...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Sun, Mar 14 2010

Filed under: insolvency

A View from the Trenches, October 4th, 2010: "Back to the obvious"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: october-4-20101 It’s Friday, October 1st. We’ve had a very busy week dealing with loan refinancings and as we go for a late afternoon walk in downtown Toronto, we wonder what we will write...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Oct 4 2010

And they wonder why we don't pay?

In a column in New Tork Times Bono from U2 bring up file-sharing and how it has supposedly destroyed the music industry. Destroyed? From a consumer perspective the music industry is better then ever. We aren't restricted to bulky storage media that...

Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Mon, Jan 4 2010

Filed under: ENGLISH, p2p, IP

A View from the Trenches, January 22nd, 2010: "What are they thinking?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-22-2010 What was President Obama thinking? I know I told you yesterday that of the two forces I saw, I expected the non-neutrality of money to prevail. Well, I think the market proved me wrong...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jan 21 2010

Your Grandchildren's Future

Welcome the future. If you have any questions regarding how current economic and social policies will work, look at the following video. While this one focuses on Detroit, other cities could have been the setting. Perhaps none quite as dramatic, but wait...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Jan 1 2010

Filed under: Government, despair, ruin, hopelessness, Detroit

A Matter of Legality

Last Thursday I visited my bank to withdraw some funds from my personal checking account. To be exact, one hundred fifty dollars for a belated graduation gift to the child of some dear friends. While I rarely utilize cash for transactions, it was necessary...

Posted to rrt00004 by rrt00004 on Sat, Nov 13 2010

regressive = traitor

"Any man who refuses to back the President in this crisis is worse than a traitor." Rush Limbaugh, circa October 2001? No. William F. Buckley, on Ronald Reagan? No. Who? Answer: Clarence Darrow , a leading progressive and an early supporter...

Posted to the forgotten man. by Nathaniel on Fri, Oct 9 2009

Filed under: he said what?

Earthquakes, Economics and Friedman

Earthquakes, Economics and Friedman By Monty Pelerin , posted March 2nd, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/02/earthquakes-economics-and-friedman/ Economic development vs. undevelopment affects lives. The populations of undeveloped countries live...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Thu, Mar 4 2010

Filed under: friedman, chile

A View from the Trenches, July 1st, 2010: "Looking at the gaps"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-01-2010 Today is Canada Day and we wish a happy one to all those reading us in Canada! Let’s begin by stating that we share the general and current state of confusion in the market. When...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 5 2010

Political "Dual" to Human Action?

As I've been reading through chapters of Human Action recently (and then re-reading each chapter to make sure I get it all), I was struck by the notion that there must exist some "dual" to Mises's masterpiece with a political emphasis...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Nov 17 2007

A View from the Trenches, September 9th, 2010: "A contrarian view?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-09-2010 After a long weekend, the market has reviewed the fundamental aspects of the current circumstances we are in. In the case of Europe, investors are beginning to remember that the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Sep 9 2010

A View from the Trenches, July 11th, 2011: "Buy the product, avoid the producer"

Through our past letters we have turned more and more negative, we acknowledge. We’ll go through a quick summary of our thoughts since the beginning of the year: We had been optimistic until March, hoping that the European Financial Stability Facility...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 11 2011