Tuesday, April 26, 2011

US Federal Reserve Gambles With Untested Policy Tool: Paying Interest On Bank Reserves

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Utilizing the “untested” policy tool of paying interest on bank reserves, the US Federal Reserve seems to be gambling away the US economy as...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Do Americans Buy Stuffs They Don’t Need?

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One of the most outrageous obsessions by the mainstream is to substitute statistics for human action then apply political correctness when i...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Central Planning Failure: China’s “Train Wreck” Edition

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Think government knows what is best for us? This from Charles Lane of the Washington Post (hat tip Cato’s Dan Mitchell ) [bold emphasis m...

Philippine Mining Index Surfs The Commodity Tide

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Domestic mining issues have been one of the recent ‘darlings’ of the Philippine Stock Exchange for the second week. The Rising Commodity T...

Yemeni President To Resign: Another Near Victory For ‘Kids With Stones And Facebook’

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Another MENA dictator bites the dust: Yemeni President agrees to step down From the Wall Street Journal Yemen's president and the...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Video: Rob Harmon On How Markets Keep Streams Flowing

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In this talk, Rob Harmon shows, where regulations failed, how the markets solved a common pool resource dilemma. His example is the case of...

Hi Ho Silver!

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Silver prices went ballistic and has virtually outclassed its commodity peers! I included the S&P 500 (red) and the emerging market ...

The Festering Culture Of Debt

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In Canada, a recent poll manifested that one-third of their residents does not have enough savings. From Yahoo , Nearly one-third of ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Video: Public Choice: Why Politicians Don't Cut Spending

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Professor Ben Powell in a short video explains, from the public choice perspective, why politicians are intuitively reluctant to cut spendin...

Forbes: World’s 2000 Biggest Publicly Listed Companies

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Forbes just published a list of the world’s 2000 biggest publicly listed companies . Here is the top 10: By region, the Asia-Pacific h...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Reason TV: The Top Five Environmental Disasters that Didn't Happen

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Reason TV gives a good account of the failed predictions by environmental doomsayers (hat tip: Art Carden/Mises Blog )

US Dollar’s Diminishing Role As Reserve Currency

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The Wall Street Journal editorial highlights on the baneful effects of the Fed’s inflationist policies, which is being transmitted via the U...

Gold at $1,500 Settles the Jim Rogers-Nouriel Roubini Debate

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Celebrity guru Nouriel Roubini has been dead wrong. Prolific investor Jim Rogers has been spot on. They had an impassioned debate in Novembe...
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Russia’s Putin Says US Federal Reserve Policies Represent ‘Hooliganism’

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Even some governments recognize the implicit harm from US Fed policies. This report from Wall Street Journal Blog (Bold highlights mine) ...