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Too Little Money or Too Much Life?

Too Little Money or Too Much Life? By Monty Pelerin , posted December 9th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/12/09/too-little-money-or-too-much-life/ A neat way to calculate your virtual age and expected life span You can calculate your expected...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Dec 9 2009

Filed under: humor, lifespan, wealth

I'll see your chunk, and raise you two cows ...

Mises.org amazes me by their offering of great economics texts on-line. I read Satan's Bushel over the course of two evenings, and I'm currently enjoying The New Deal in Old Rome . I laughed out loud at the following quote from page 82 of The...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Oct 11 2007

A View from the Trenches, March 9th, 2010: "US Fed vs. municipal debt"

(”A View from Trenches” is temporarily no longer published on a daily basis. Over the past year, we enjoyed writing every day. However, we are very busy of late, undertaking another project that hopefully will be finished by next Fall. We...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Mar 8 2010

Liberty Dollar's offices raided

An interview with Bernard can be found here: http://www.ebacherville.com/cgi-bin/uploaded/FINAL-LibertyDollarNotHaus11152007.mp3

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Nov 15 2007

Investment Ideas

Investment Ideas By Monty Pelerin , posted January 26th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/26/investment-ideas/ For those who are interested in getting a lot of investing ideas for 2010 and beyond, check out the collection at The Kirk Report ...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Fri, Jan 29 2010

Filed under: Investments

A View from the Trenches, December 14th, 2009: "Liquidity, liquidity and more liquidity"

“ …And when output has increased and prices have risen, the effect of this on liquidity-preference will be to increase the quantity of money necessary to maintain a given rate of interest… ” (J. M. Keynes, “The General...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Dec 13 2009

A View from the Trenches, December 15th, 2009: "Confusion wanes"

“ …And when output has increased and prices have risen, the effect of this on liquidity-preference will be to increase the quantity of money necessary to maintain a given rate of interest… ” (J. M. Keynes, “The General...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Dec 14 2009

Will College become a luxury?

This discussion is based on the commentary here. The commentary makes the point that rising fees are pricing some people out of higher education. I think its great. When demand is this high, markets respond with higher prices out of necessity. When more...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Tue, Mar 9 2010

A View from the Trenches, January 20th, 2010: "Two dimensions (Part II)"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-21-2009 Yesterday’s action was actually very “timely”. Yesterday, I had written that the non-neutrality of money was one of the forces shaping the market scene. But also...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jan 20 2010

A View from the Trenches, February 25th, 2011: "Why gold and oil sold off yesterday"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-25-2011 It’s the end of the month and the animal spirits nervously want to take profits on a good February. Before we start today’s letter, we want to clarify our view with respect...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Feb 24 2011

A View from the Trenches, December 7th, 2009: "Gold is put to the test"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com It’s Monday morning and I expect that you will have already digested Friday’s action, that you will have had enough time during this weekend to think over what just happened...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Dec 6 2009

What Inflation? This Inflation

Those arguing that inflation is not a problem are either disingenuous, blind or cheerleading for Washington. Inflation is not happening in wages, nor is it happening in many products where the misallocation of capital has caused oversupply (real estate...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Wed, Nov 25 2009

Filed under: inflation

A View from the Trenches, December 11th, 2009: "Thinking about 2010"

“…And when output has increased and prices have risen, the effect of this on liquidity-preference will be to increase the quantity of money necessary to maintain a given rate of interest…” (J. M. Keynes, “The General Theory...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Dec 10 2009

Actors Implement Human Action

Human Action is implemented by actors behaving as their desires drive them. As Ludwig Von Mises said human desire can never be the subject of quantitative mathematics. I propose to say that Human Action can be modeled quite accurately using a branch of...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Wed, Mar 17 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory, Quantitative Austrian Economics, Graph Theory

Extrema

Human beings use action to implement a perceived extremal solution for possible outcomes. At the heart all of us want to maximize our profit and minmize the costs required for the same. Entrepeneurs, corporation and politicians all apply the same logic...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Mon, Apr 5 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory, Quantitative Austrian Economics, Graph Theory, Mathematical Analysis, Combinatorics