June 2009
54 posts
WatchMany Americans have developed a silly, warped, and dangerous view of the role of the state in all its forms, including the police function.
"Is the Dollar Doomed?" via Free Advice →
"More Fed Lawlessness: AIG" via The Market Ticker →
Life imitating Atlas as the looters have no fear of consequence.
"Taxpayer Funds Support Money Laundering?!" via... →
Life imitating Atlas as the public funds corrupt institutions that further enrich the looters
"China Again Throws Weight Against Dollar as... →
"Wall Street Sets Campaign on ‘Populist... →
Life imitating Atlas as the looters shift into PR overdrive
"Cap & Trade Is Not A Market Solution" by Bob... →
"A Hunger for Food Security" via WGF →
"Behind the Sense of Urgency" via WGF →
"US Approves IMF Gold Sales; What Does It Mean?"... →
"Insiders Dump Shares at Fastest Pace in 2 Years"... →
"Plenty of Would-Be Infernos Still Smoldering" via... →
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WatchUS To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash
"The Folly of the National Sales Tax" via Mises →
"Ssssshhh.... Its D-D-D-D-...." via The Market... →
“You cannot cure alcoholism with whiskey.” Detox is coming whether we like it or not. Rampant, futile denial schemes do not help.
$13,900,000,000,000 break down →
"More Tinkering With Official Price Statistics"... →
Why do we still pretend?
"US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to... →
"Neighbors are forcing neighbors into foreclosure"... →
Global Trade Alert →
Check out this blog, which offers “Independent monitoring of policies that affect world trade.” Follow governments as they disrupt markets and damage the quality of life. HT When Giants Fall.
"Smuggling Or Counterfeit-Printing?" via The... →
“I’ll just come right out and say it: Ben Bernanke will go down as the...”
– Oh no.
“Bernanke Saves?” via Mises Economics Blog
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"Extreme Makeover: Federal Reserve Edition" via... →
Life Imitating Atlas as the Fed focuses on PR.
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"Sneaking in Command and Control" via Dynamist... →
Virginia Postrel writes:
The WaPost notes that the “cap-and-trade” bill sponsored by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey is, in fact, loaded with all sorts of direct federal regulation of a decidedly dictatorial command-and-control nature.”
To determine what will happen next, simply ask yourself what course will most concentrate power. That’s all this is — a power...
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“…one of every six dollars of Americans’ income is now coming in the...”
– “Benefit spending soars to new high” via USA Today
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"Fed Hires Former Enron Lobbyist to Burnish Its... →
"The Case Against the Fed" by Murray Rothbard via... →
Setser on China and the US →
The Market Ticker Is "Done With Being Nice" →
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"California finds a backdoor to the Fed's magic... →
Crimony.
"The Stimulus and its Consequence: Statism" via... →
"The trillion dollar question: China or America?"... →
One highlight:
For Mr Geithner knows the truth of the old adage: when you owe the bank a small amount, the bank has the power. But when you owe the bank a huge amount, it’s the other way round. Luo Ping, a director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, put it nicely in an interview back in February: “Except for US Treasuries, what can you hold? US Treasuries are the...
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"The new Detroit isn’t Detroit" via BuzzMachine →
Entrepreneurship is hope and change. And these true leaders keep right on driving even as government and the corrupt, out-moded, yet fabulously wealthy industry titans that survive off government handouts and regulatory cons continue to destroy shareholder value and entire communities.
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"How Mises Prevailed" →
… recommending this memoir for your summer reading list.
"The Incongruity of What Government Does .vs.... →
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