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Open letter response to Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" proposed 10-year transition to "clean" power

I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Aug 6 2008

Filed under: AGW, climate change, Coal, Al Gore, nuclear, alternative, Cathy Zoi

Dr. George Reisman and the Curious Case of the Missing Crony Capitalists, or, Moral Blindness Helps Me to See Clearly

I refer to Dr. Reisman 's October 21 post at Mises Daily, " In Praise of the Capitalist 1 Percent ". (The good Dr. and I go back a few years , as some of my readers may recall.) In face of growing economic dislocation and discontent, Dr...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Oct 27 2011

Siguiendo la hipótesis de los mercados eficientes hasta el absurdo

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 10 de enero de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4904 . Los austriacos en la tradición de Mises y Rothbard destacan la solidez de...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 11 2011

Filed under: Robert Murphy, hipótesis de los mercados eficientes, Scott Sumner

Any length to prevent deflation

There are 4 things can cause deflation: 1. The supply of money goes down. 2. The supply of other goods goes up. 3. Demand for money goes up. 4. Demand for other goods goes down. However the Fed concern themselves entirely with the money supply and with...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Dec 4 2008

The imaginary economy?

Speaking at the Asia-Europe summit Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recently said , “The biggest responsibility is to stabilise the financial order as soon as possible. We need to use all available tools to prevent the crisis from harming real economies...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Wed, Oct 29 2008

Filed under: profitability, accounting, Bankruptcy, Money, Banking, Real economy, Markets, Liquidation

A View from the Trenches, October 17th, 2011: "The EU must not recapitalize banks"

Click here to read this article in pdf format: october-17-2011 We apologize for not having written sooner. We usually do if we find new, market moving information. Unfortunately we have not in the past three weeks, which is also evident in the range trading...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Oct 17 2011

A question for my rhetoric class

My rhetoric class is now reading articles about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The topic is very intriguing, and many in class have professed a wonder about how they had never heard much about the subject growing up through...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Apr 17 2008

Filed under: injustice, World War II, Japanese-Americans, public education, War on Terror, government, enemy combatants, justice, internment, civil liberties

Economía vs. Política

Por Frank Chodorov. (Publicado el 1 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/3878 . [Este artículo se ha extraído del Capítulo Uno de The Rise and...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 2 2009

Filed under: Frank Chodorov, historia, The Rise and Fall of Society

A View from the Trenches, January 16, 2012: "There is no decoupling"

This is our first letter of 2012. The year started with a mini rally that every analyst out there attributes to something called “decoupling”. Why? Because the strength in asset inflation, although global in nature, is particularly more solid...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Fri, Feb 24 2012

The NY Times expects us to feel sorry for:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/business/economy/19bonus.html?_r=3&hp These poor people who didn't get their five and six figure bonuses this year. How will they ever live on mere $25,000 bonuses? "Anthony Abraham, 33, a management consultant...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Thu, Feb 19 2009

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

Ringside seat on the fight to steer the Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus

On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Oct 6 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Exxon, chamber of commerce, Apple, Nike, Tom Donohue, USCAP, BICEP, CERES, NRDC

The Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company

I haven't blogged in a while, as I just spent a couple weeks of vacation on the big island of Hawaii. To a geek like me, one of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company's factory in Kawaihae. The accumulated capital...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Wed, Nov 7 2007

A View from the Trenches, September 21st, 2009: "Central banks close gaps...to stop the flood"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Today’s is unfortunately a short letter, as I have had a very busy week and even busier weekend. Nevertheless, below I describe what I believe was and will be a very relevant...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Sep 20 2009

Menger on Natural Communism

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 2 . Previously in this series: Menger on Economic vs. Non-Economic Goods As discussed before, economic goods (goods for which requirements...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Filed under: Hesiod, Carl Menger, Economics