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[Update] Mind Games: Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal panders to "skeptics" by abjuring science and declaring himself an expert on "mass neurosis"

[Update: For an ongoing case study of the startling irrationality and "sick souls" of some of the "skeptics", see my related discussions with the physicist Lubos Motl: [Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: religion, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Durkin, Cockburn, Horner, Festinger, Lubos Motl

Climate spin: Who changed "global warming" to "climate change"?

Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Apr 7 2008

Filed under: climate, republicans, AGW, statist, Luntz, tobacco

Luis XIV: El apogeo del absolutismo

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 15 de julio de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4540 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento económico...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Jul 17 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Luis XIV

La solución a la crisis en Islandia

Apenas se habló de ello porque no interesaba. Ahora es momento de que salga a la luz. No solo los países árabes deben luchar por sus derechos como ciudadanos. Aquí, en Occidente, también nos manipulan y somos controlados...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Feb 17 2011

If you visit Japan, leave your pocketknife at home; if you bring it, certainly don`t ask the police for directions!

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: Japan, knife, police

OTC Derivatives: Failed Banks or Failed Nations?

Economic bubbles are not recognized by those inside of them, and the entire Western world has become quietly trapped inside the largest economic bubble in history. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has been attributed to sub-prime mortgage...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Tue, May 11 2010

Filed under: CEA, S 3217), Alan Greenspan, option, CDS, VaR, Barney Frank, Commodity Exchange Act, Brooksley Born, OTC derivatives, forward, collateralized debt obligation, Warren Buffett, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, Monte Carlo Simulation, swap, Value at Risk, synthetic CDO, Robert Rubin, credit default swap, Chris Dodd, George Soros, Larry Summers

Krugman proves whats popular isnt always right....

I could start this blog with a long winded declaration of what Paul Krugman has done, but I assume that most people have at least heard the rhetoric that he spews. For the longest time, I have heard that the Nobel Prize in all of its forms is a prize...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Mon, Oct 13 2008

[Mind Games:] Penn & Teller - "Bull****" artists - get ready to change their "skeptical" stance on climate change

There's an interesting bit of arm-twisting, self-deception, defensiveness and reluctant position-shifting going on in the libertarian science skeptics crowd, and Penn and Teller seem to be letting the social pressure help clear their minds. At James...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Jul 5 2008

Filed under: AGW, Ron Bailey, climate change, Al Gore, Sharon Begley, Penn, Teller, Newsbusters

Cómo el Estado de Bienestar corrompió a Suecia

Por Per Bylund. (Publicado el 31 de mayo de 2006) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2190 . Traducción de : Miguel Castañeda - Castideas Las personas mayores en Suecia...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Jan 27 2012

Filed under: estado de bienestar, Per Bylund, Suecia

China’s Dragons: Oil, Gold, and the US Dollar

The end of the de facto petrodollar standard has profound and lasting implications for the US dollar, oil, and gold. The US is the epicenter of the global financial crisis and economic downturn, but the US continues to exercise disproportionate control...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Oct 23 2009

Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, Asia, Asian Tigers, USDX, Oil, central banks, G20, BRIC, China, petrodollar, Gold, natural resources, GNX, money supply, WTIC, IMF, OPEC, Bretton Woods

It's slaughthering time again

It's getting a bit annoying. The last few weekends you could rely on a new strike against gold. The old saying is: First time is an accident, the second time it's an inccident, the third time it's enemies at work. It seems the paper gold "market"...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, May 10 2013

Filed under: trust, gold, reality, paper money, believe in paper, virtual reality

Did global warming stop in 1998? Jim Hansen says NO.

Inquiring minds might want to take a quick look at what Dr. James E. Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has to say: The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jan 15 2008

Filed under: climate, hansen, AGW, James Hansen

La Escuela de Chicago frente a la Escuela Austriaca

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 20 de junio de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5390 . La gente me pregunta a menudo: “¿En qué son los economistas de...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, Oct 17 2011

Filed under: escuela austriaca, Robert Murphy, Escuela de Chicago

Ética de la argumentación y libertad: una guía breve

Por Stephan Kinsella. (Publicado el 27 de mayo de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5322 . El Profesor Hans-Hermann Hoppe apareció en la escena austrolibertaria a finales...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, May 30 2011

Filed under: Stephan Kinsella, Hans Hermann Hoppe, ética de la argumentación

Left-Libertarianism

I consider myself a left-libertarian. To avoid any confusion over what this may imply, I fully support private property, voluntary exchange, money, rent, employment, and so on (or more strictly speaking, I don't advocate their abolition). And I completely...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Mon, May 26 2008

Filed under: Centralization, Racism, Equality, Religion, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, old right, conservatism, Immigration, Nationalism, History, Vulgar Libertarianism