Blogs

Interview: Jim Rickards on Inflation and Currency Wars

The Hera Research Newsletter (HRN) is pleased to present an eye opening interview with James G. Rickards, Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners, a merchant bank specializing in alternative asset management solutions, and also Chief Operating...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Feb 4 2011

Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, inflation, China, Hyperinflation, QE2, Ben Bernanke, Jim Rickards, Brazil, U.S. Treasuries, Brazillian real, debt monetization, quantitative easing, yuan, RMB, U.S. dollar, QE

Steven Weinberg on Education

A few of my posts have been about education, and about starving workers; so I was happy to come across a 1988 interview (by Bill Moyers with the Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg) that brings the two ideas together. In the middle of the interview...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Dec 22 2007

A View from the Trenches, March 29th, 2011: "It's getting complicated"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-29-2011 Unfortunately, the theme we began elaborating on January 28th , has now become “the” theme, particularly since this weekend, with Japan’s nuclear disaster and the anarchy...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Mar 28 2011

¿Qué ha hecho el gobierno a nuestras familias?

Por Allan Carlson. (Publicado el 5 de enero de 2003) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/1406 . [De un trabajo escrito e impreso por primera vez en 1991] El destino de las familias...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Feb 10 2012

Filed under: Suecia, familia, Allan Carlson

Rent Seeking and the Flight of Capital

The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Mon, Jul 19 2010

Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy

Cómo se produce el ciclo económico

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 6 de septiembre de 2005) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/1905 . [Este artículo está extraído de los primeros capítulos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Dec 10 2010

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, ciclo económico

I Can't Stand Cant, Or, LeBron James and our Collectivist Scorn of "Collectivists"

A recent post on the Mises Economics Blog by contributor S.M. Oliva , " LeBron and the Collectivist Mentality ", which rails against "collectivism" and hypocrisy in the treatment of professional athletes, has provided an opportunity...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 13 2010

Avatar resonates in China - where standing up for property rights (and against "progress") can be downright subversive

It looks as if James Cameron` s Avatar movie - which is seen by many in the West as predictibly shallow, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, pro-enviro and racially politically correct - has struck a home-owners` rights chord that is resonating in China...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 13 2010

Filed under: property rights, China, Kuznets, indigenous, Avatar

A View from the Trenches, September 8th, 2009: "The beginning of the '10s depression?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com With Labor Day over, perhaps it has never been so clear that a new phase in the capital markets story is being written. What are we talking about? As I mentioned earlier, I am currently...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Sep 7 2009

How I converted Mises.org to Web 2.0 (Part 1)

During the period of late August - mid September 2007, I redesigned the architecture of Mises.org from the ground up from a largely-static "web 1.0" era site to a future-oriented database and user driven " web 2.0 enabled" site. In...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Mon, Oct 1 2007

Filed under: Web Technology

How does a business 'create jobs'?

This is my primary question about Barack Obama's proposed tax policy, which involves tax credits for businesses that create jobs. How do they do that? Do they just hire more people and receive a check?

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Tue, Oct 14 2008

2010 Will Be Worse

2010 Will Be Worse By Monty Pelerin , posted January 5th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/05/2010-will-be-worse/ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Despite the rising stock market, virtually everything else continues to deteriorate in the economy...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Jan 5 2010

Filed under: economy, no recovery

Can Austrian economics ever become mainstream?

Austrian econ is not for everyone. Those who study economics in order to fine-tune economies through public policy will not likely agree with it. Of those who do, their only recourse is to admit their goals as being unachievable, which would mean that...

Posted to Natural Order by Grant on Thu, Oct 4 2007

Leading Republican corporate governance expert throws in towel on shareholder oversight of listed companies, decries unaccountable CEOs, excessive corporate power and Government Capture

Robert A.G. Monks is another well-known Republican now railing at runaway crony capitalism and its related corruption of government. I have referred to Monks twice previously: More by Bob Monks on the shareholder marginalization at the core of the crisis...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Dec 10 2011

Mi réplica a Krugman sobre la teoría austriaca del ciclo económico

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 24 de enero de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4993 . Como ya saben muchos lectores, la pasada semana Paul Krugman enlazó con uno...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 25 2011

Filed under: Paul Krugman, Robert Murphy, ciclo económico