Saturday, December 17, 2011

US CPI Inflation’s Smoke and Mirror Statistics, Part 2

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In defense of their interventionist bias, the conventional question framed by mainstream statists goes around this context, “given the FED’...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Hurricanes are Not Linked to Global Warming

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A popular myth exposed. From John Ransom One of the of the most popularized predicted effects of global warming from the models giv...

Philippine Phisix: From Death Cross to the Golden Cross

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I have been validated !

Video: Anthology of 2011 Movies

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At the VIMEO, Matt Shapiro compiles numerous films of 2011 into this splendid video montage. (original link here ). 2011: The Cinescape f...

Video: Predictive Value of Austrian Economics versus Keynesian Economics

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To kick off my vacation blogging, the following video shows of the predictive value of Austrian Economics versus mainstream mostly Keynesian...

Vacation Blogging

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Well, holiday season is upon us. I will be preparing to spend this year’s holidays with my mom who resides overseas. My family and I will ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Chart of the Day: Regime Uncertainty

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Concludes the editor of the Wall Street Journal The evidence is overwhelming that the Obama regulatory surge is one reason the curren...

Quote of the Day: Insider-Outsider Government Theory

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Bill Bonner’s theory of government . Every theory of government we’ve come across is a scam. So we offer a better theory: government is...

Is this the End of the Gold Bull Market?

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Over the past few days gold prices has been whacked. Gold prices have breached the 200 day moving averages. Immediately gold bears scr...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Rising Demand for British Butlers by Emerging Market Super Rich

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Super Chinese and Russian millionaires seem to have a penchant for English household workers. Earlier I p osted news which exhibited a sur...

Prediction Failure: Hurricane Forecasters Give Up

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Another instance where math models, here applied to weather forecasting, has failed to live up to its much touted reputation (hat tip: Profe...

Reason TV video: Anatomy of Government Stimulus Failure

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Jim Epstein of Reason.tv documents in the following video, what went wrong with Obama's stimulus spending program which features the ca...

Cartoon of the Day: Damned Lies, Statistics and Correlation-Causation Explanations

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Manipulation of statistics to generate causation-correlation explanations is shown below in a spoof. From Businessweek/Bloomberg Our p...

Global Equity Markets: Signs of Contracting Liquidity?

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It’s the same politics-driving-markets story. From the Bloomberg , U.S. stocks retreated, reversing an earlier advance for the Standa...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

More Signs of China’s Bubble: Deserted Fake Disneyland

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From Reuters Blog (hat tip Bob Wenzel) Along the road to one of China’s most famous tourist landmarks – the Great Wall of China – sits...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Quote of the Day: Division of Labor Cheeseburger Edition

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Writes Waldo Jaquith , (hat tip Professor Arnold Kling) I realized that my prior plan hadn’t been ambitious enough—that wasn’t really ...

MF Global Fallout Haunts the Metal Markets

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The MF Global mess continues to haunt the commodity markets. Reports suggest that MF Global could have engaged in rehypothecation or illicit...

Chart of the Day: Crony Capitalism

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This fantastic Venn diagram from Professor Mario Rizzo shows of the conflict of interests, particularly the US government's revolving d...

Libertarian Cities May Rise at Honduras

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This is refreshing news, in a world of governments, here is a chance to prove the viability of Libertarian ideas. Honduras plans to open “fr...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Phisix: Primed for an Upside Surprise

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of li...