Monday, January 28, 2013

Shopping Mall Bubble: Will Manufacturing, Agriculture, Tourism and Infrastructure Cover the Supply-Demand Gap?

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My concerns about the risks of a brewing shopping bubble has been fundamentally premised from basic economics: if supply grows more than de...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Thailand’s Credit Bubble

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This passage from a report on Thailand’s monetary policy caught my eye; from Bloomberg Daily minimum wages have risen as much as 89 per...
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Why the Neo-Malthusian Premise of “Peak Resources” are Misguided

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Writing at the Daily Reckoning , Chris Mayer, managing editor for several newsletters has a rejoinder to neo-Malthusians led by GMO’s Jerem...

Tina Turner Renounces US Citizenship: A Tax and Privacy Issue?

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Well, it would seem that the curse of the Laffer Curve and the welfare state has not only affected the French, American celebrity Tina Turn...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Biofuels Aggravates Food Price Inflation, Promotes Hunger

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One product of environmental politics has been to promote the politically privileged taxpayer supported, green energy industry.  Biofuels i...

Environmentalism Hysteria: Cats are Evil

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The ultimate goal of environmentalism has been to restrain people’s activities.  Not content with man-made global warming, environmenta...

Sri Lanka’s Government to Ban Maid Exports

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Here is an example of a knee jerk political reaction on what has been a lurid but seemingly isolated development.  Writes the AFP (bol...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Shale Gas Boom: Australia’s Potential $20 Trillion Discovery

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The shale gas boom continues to percolate around the world, this time Australia may have hit on a jackpot. From the Herald Sun SOUTH ...

Quote of the Day: The Necessary is Not to be Confused with the Causal

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A drivers license is something binary: Pass/Fail. Nobody is foolish enough to try to get high scores in it to improve his CV with a "...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Quote of the Day: Selfishness, via Profits, Guides People to Serve the Need of Others More Effectively

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making money honestly means creating something other people value, not necessarily what you value. The more money I want, the more I have ...

Gary North on Irving Fisher: The Most Influential Economic Crank in American history

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Austrian economist Gary North on a smackdown of the late Irving Fisher. (hat tip Bob Wenzel)  Fisher was the most influential economic ...