Creating Infrastructure for Private Regulation by Alex Merced Everyone on both sides of the aisle have empathy for consumers who are defrauded, swindled, and are tricked into entering trade under false premises. The debate isn't should there be mechanisms to protect and put oversight on the consumer...
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Alex Merced
on Sun, Sep 12 2010
Filed under: Public Sector, Private Sector, Regulation, Austrian Economics, Fraud, Regulatory Capture, Securities Act of 1933, Confidence
Capitalism and Democracy by Alex Merced Detractors to Capitalism often will make satire of the idea of "the invisible hand" as if Free Market Capitalist believe there is an actual invisible hand. The Invisible hand is a metaphor for much more beautiful and plausible idea; that the actions and...
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Alex Merced
on Wed, Aug 11 2010
Filed under: Regulation, Individualism, Trading Markets, Capitalism, Democracy, Individuality
Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
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Alex Merced
on Sun, Apr 25 2010
Filed under: Private Sector, FINRA, Entertainment, Federal Reserve, Consequence, Regulation, SIPC, Individualism, Magazines, Rating Agencies, Free Market, SEC, Reviews, FDIC, Collectivism
Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-2-2010 We will be brief today, for nothing of macroeconomic consequence has taken place in the past 24hrs. The action that caught our attention yesterday was in the foreign exchange market (the market that never lies). In particular, we refer...
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A View from the Trenches
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Martin Sibileau
on Mon, Mar 1 2010
Filed under: Martin Sibileau, Agency debt, CAD, interest rate, regulation, Agencies, Euro-zone, GSE, TSX, bubbles, Bank of America, asset inflation, European Union, exchange equation, Preferred Stock Purchase Program, PPSP, Euro, USD strength, Europe, inflation, Canadian dollar, non-nuetrality of money, delinquency buyouts
It is often remarked that the existence of unions is proof of the inefficiency and failure of markets to pay workers adequate wages. That workers, as a great multitude with little individual influence, must form socialistic collectives in order to provide a counterweight to the great power wielded by...
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Solredime
on Tue, Dec 29 2009
Filed under: regulation, intervention, sticky, unions, trade unions, deflation, inflation, competition, sticky wages, raising prices, raising wages