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A View from the Trenches, May 9th, 2011: "It starts with deleveraging, it ends with hyperinflation"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: may-9-2011 About two months ago, at the Austrian Scholars Conference of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, a few asked us what it was like to live under hyperinflation, when they learned of our Argentine...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, May 9 2011

What have we won

or didn't we have won? Now that the "top" terrorist is dead, will we be safer? According to this http://thebonnieblueblog.blogspot.com/ at least not on the railroad. So Al Kaida wanted to attacke the railway infrastructure. So at least they...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Mon, May 9 2011

Filed under: Obama, deledefs, military, burning money, US is bankrupt, Osama, efficiency

Radley Balko at Reason Magazine interviews Stewart Rhodes ex-Ron Paul staffer and founder of "Oath Keepers", a group trying to train military and police in the Bill of Rights

I have earlier commented on the interesting Oath Keepers group . I hope everyone will take a good read through the entire interview of Stewart Rhodes by Radley Balko at Reason Magazine , and give their support to Rhodes, Oath Keepers and others trying...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, May 8 2011

Jim Sinclair: The Financial System Is Less Stable Today Than It Was in 2008

The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present an in-depth interview with Jim Sinclair, Chairman and CEO of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration and founder of Jim Sinclair's MineSet , which hosts his gold commentary as a free service to the gold investment...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sat, May 7 2011

Filed under: Federal reserve, inflation, China, Gold, Euro, Hyperinflation, OTC derivatives, QE2, Ben Bernanke, U.S. dollar, Jim Sinclair, world financial system, sovereign debt, Yen

Reading suggestion

Well if I'm have one special weakness, then it's reading. And because of this weakness I stumbled upon quite few books which one just can name "eye-opener" It has happened with the following books: Human Action, the road to serfdom....

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Sat, May 7 2011

Filed under: Obama, Krugman, deledefs, Bernanke, "experts", This time is different, judgement, books

Nick Sorrentino suggests that Left and Right can come together on "free market reforms"

Nick Sorrentino is the Austrian-leaning editor of The Liberty and Economics Review blog and CEO of Exelorix.com , a social media management company. Being a sucker for building discourse and pursuing collaboration, I took a fancy to a recent post of Nick's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, May 7 2011

More on the "methane gun"

This is the End blog, March 30, 2011: “It is High Time to Warn People”: Igor Semiletov and the Methane Time-Bomb (Feedback, Part 2) (emphasis added) What Arrhenius didn’t have data on were the wild cards. Two such factors are embedded...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Oh well: Independent, Koch-funded group headed by 'skeptic' Berkeley physicist announces to Congress that climate change data is reliable

1. LA Times, April 4, 2011: Critics' review unexpectedly supports scientific consensus on global warming 2. NY Times, April 1, 2011: Experts Heat Up Over Berkeley Lab Scientist's Quest to 'Calm' Climate Change Debate 3. Voices of Central...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

If we just ignore BP/corporate lobbying & risk-shifting - and Government's ownership of oil, coal and other natural resources - we can see clearly that enviros just want to destroy civilization

Right? 1. BP Spent $2 Million Lobbying On Offshore Drilling, Spill Liability, Other Regulations In First Quarter Of 2011 (Marcus Baram, Huffington Post, April 21, 2011): (emphasis added) On the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Hmm: Two independent satellite studies show that ice sheets are melting faster than expected by IPCC, and accelerating

1. See this March 8, 2011 Washington Post article : The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than previously thought, and that melting is accelerating, according to a new report that verifies 18 years of melting via two independent...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Callahan and Richman have asserted the efficacy of moral suasion in getting people and organizations to change climate behavior; here are two people's efforts to persuade, post-tornado

I discussed Callahan and Richman at some length previously . Since I hope they are right, I bring you some comments I recently ran across: 1. Peter H. Gleick , A Cost of Denying Climate Change: Accelerating Climate Disruptions, Death, and Destruction...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Feedbacks mean that the warming resulting from a doubling of CO2 may be much higher than 3 C, say more paleo-climate studies

I have discussed climate "sensitivity" a number of times earlier; here is a good place to start for those interested: http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/10/14/what-do-we-know-about-climate-models-and-climate-quot-sensitivity...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Have we already pulled the trigger on the methane gun? As Arctic warms, surprisingly large and uncontrollable releases of methane (much more potent than CO2) are growing from massive shallow seabed deposits and permafrost

1. Wikipedia, Clathrate gun hypothesis (emphasis added): The clathrate gun hypothesis is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures (and/or falls in sea level) can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

Very well put

http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=10405 Again there is nothing substantial to be add.

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, May 6 2011

Filed under: Obama, killing, violence, Osama

Tornadoes, fires and floods, oh my! Time to stop hiding our heads in the sand. Who benefits from our loading of the climate dice?

[My apologies for weird formatting, I find it very difficult to deal with html embedded in text that I cut and paste!] No doubt a locally cold winter helped many readers put behind them thoughts about last year's worldwide record droughts, floods...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 6 2011

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A View from the Trenches, May 9th, 2011: "It starts with deleveraging, it ends with hyperinflation"

What have we won

Radley Balko at Reason Magazine interviews Stewart Rhodes ex-Ron Paul staffer and founder of "Oath Keepers", a group trying to train military and police in the Bill of Rights

Jim Sinclair: The Financial System Is Less Stable Today Than It Was in 2008

Reading suggestion

Nick Sorrentino suggests that Left and Right can come together on "free market reforms"

More on the "methane gun"

Oh well: Independent, Koch-funded group headed by 'skeptic' Berkeley physicist announces to Congress that climate change data is reliable

If we just ignore BP/corporate lobbying & risk-shifting - and Government's ownership of oil, coal and other natural resources - we can see clearly that enviros just want to destroy civilization

Hmm: Two independent satellite studies show that ice sheets are melting faster than expected by IPCC, and accelerating

Callahan and Richman have asserted the efficacy of moral suasion in getting people and organizations to change climate behavior; here are two people's efforts to persuade, post-tornado

Feedbacks mean that the warming resulting from a doubling of CO2 may be much higher than 3 C, say more paleo-climate studies

Have we already pulled the trigger on the methane gun? As Arctic warms, surprisingly large and uncontrollable releases of methane (much more potent than CO2) are growing from massive shallow seabed deposits and permafrost

Very well put

Tornadoes, fires and floods, oh my! Time to stop hiding our heads in the sand. Who benefits from our loading of the climate dice?