February 2009
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"Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures" via... →
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Central Planning and the Erosion of Liberty via... →
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"Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You" via HP →
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"More bad news from Asia" via Brad Setser →
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"Moving the Goal Posts" via Greg Mankiw →
The US government constantly deceives. (As other governments do.) Some lies are floods, others tiny drips.
Pause long enough to consider: how can you believe these institutions and individuals? On what do you base your trust?
Forget the ratings agencies, regulations, media, pundits, and pronouncements. Think for yourself. What about these people is trustworthy?
Our suspension of disbelief...
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"Keynes Politely Explains How to Destroy... →
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The WSJ reported on February 27 that “US To Take Big Citi Stake and Overhaul the Board:”
As a condition, the government is demanding that the New York company overhaul its board of directors, the people said. Treasury will call for Citigroup’s board to be comprised of a majority of independent directors. Chief Executive Vikram Pandit is expected to keep his job under the...
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"U.S. Is Said to Agree to Raise Stake in... →
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“Thanks California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Michigan!
And you’re...”
– The Foreclosure Five via Cato
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“…calls for savings from massively rich old dudes (especially to a...”
– “Let Them Eat Cake” from Umair Haque HarvardBusiness.org
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Y/Y exports, falling FAST
Japan, -46%
China, -17.5%
Korea, -33%
Taiwan, -44%
via Brad Setser’s “More bad news from Japan”
Economic Recovery Requires Capital Accumulation,... →
George Reisman via Mises.org
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“ATHENS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Greeks disgruntled by their country’s economic...”
– via Reuters
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“The U.S. House plans today to approve a $410 billion spending bill providing...”
– via BB
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Twitter.com/fiatch →
Just fyi, I started Fiatch’s Twitter feed tonight.
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"Neighborhood watches are on the front lines in... →
Let’s do what we can.
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Arrogant Interventionist Government destroys more... →
“AIG to Retrade Its Bailout Yet Again? (Banana Republic Watch)” via NC
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Watch500,000 idle boxcars.
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Pennsylvania rocked by 'jailing kids for cash'... →
Integrity is the marker. We are not facing a crisis of confidence. This isn’t about trust. It’s about trustworthiness. Be trustworthy and demand it of others. As always, that’s our only way through.
What builds trust? What destroys it? What can each of us do right now? Let’s do what we can.
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"Why Bank Nationalization Is So Scary" via USN&WR →
If you aren’t frustrated, outraged, and at least a little terrified, you’re doing it wrong.
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A Reading List on the Great Depression →
If you believe that markets generated the Great Depression and that government intervention via the New Deal and other programs ended the Great Depresssion, you’re doing it wrong.
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"Economic Fascism & the Bailout Economy" by Gary... →
“As the Internet grows in its influence, alternative views can get to a minority of educated people. The success of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in getting Austrian School economics in front of hundreds of thousands of young people, all over the world, who would never have heard about Mises or Rothbard had it not been for the World Wide Web, indicates that the foundations of the modern...
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“$25,000,000,000,000?”
– “The Looming Collapse of European Banking” by Gary North
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