Is The Economy Improving? It Depends On How You Define Improving.
Real GDP Contracts Most in 27 Years (Photo credit: inspecie.co.uk) QUANTITATIVE VS. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS We keep hearing from the administration, and the media, that the economy is slowly improving....
View ArticleThe Market (Individuals) Finds Ways Around Govenment Intervention.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING vs. GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING I’ve always thought free market capitalism would always out pace the interventions of Government, but when the bubble...
View ArticleMust Reads For The Week 2/15/14
The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane) Suicide Bomb Instructor Accidentally Blows Up His Class, at economicpolicyjournal.com. I wonder if Iraq’s version of OSHA will fine the...
View ArticleObservations From The Margin
Observation (Photo credit: mooglet) The Federal Reserve electronically prints counterfeit money and loans it to member banks at zero percent interest. These banks purchase guaranteed investments,...
View ArticleMust Reads For The Week 6/14/14
The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane) Rehypothecation Evaporation Concerns Grow, As Copper Plunges Most In Three Months, at zerohedge.com. Rehypothecation is simply selling...
View ArticleMust Reads For The Week 6/28/14
The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane) FEDERAL RESERVE, MUST READS OF THE WEEK Lets start with some humor, because the rest of the post isn’t very funny. I saw this video,...
View ArticleWhy Has Classical Capitalism Devolved Into Crony-Capitalism, by Charles Hugh...
In this article, Why Has Classical Capitalism Devolved Into Crony-Capitalism, Charles Hugh Smith, (oftowminds.com) makes the point that the Elites, consisting of ; people in Government and central...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Policies Cause Booms And Busts, by Richard M. Ebeling
Federal Reserve Policies Cause Booms And Busts (read here at mises.org), is a fantastic article by Richard M. Ebeling, explaining what happens when central banks, like the Fed, intervene in the...
View ArticleThe Fed Has Proved The Lefts “Trickle Down Straw Man” Doesn’t Work.
The left always comes up with words or phrases that ridicule the ideas and/or policies of their opponents with the intent of stopping any intelligent debate about the merits. In the 80’s, the policy of...
View ArticleMust Reads For The Week 8/15/15
The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane) Fed Finally Figures Out Soaring Student Debt Is Reason For Exploding College Costs, at zerohedge.com. The Fed has figured out that when...
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