Another short, well-made video
Here is another interesting short video. It is professionally made, and I don’t aspire to make anything this slick – it is not worth my time to learn how to do so. I like the background graphics. Watch for the ones that pop up when Ferguson says “Lehman Brothers”. I prefer a speaker on video [...]
Easy Opinions: Basic Principle of the New Deal
Alvin Hansen was an influential economic adviser to FDR. He was asked in 1940 whether the basic principle of the New Deal was economically sound, and he responded, “I really do not know what the basic principle of the New Deal is. via Easy Opinions: Basic Principle of the New Deal. Our elders and betters, [...]
Video with English Caption: Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University Tells the Politicians: “What Are You Doing?” | EX-SKF
From EX-SKF. I make a brief comment below the videos. (If you don’t see the caption, click on the “cc” on the player menu bar to turn on the caption.) Please share the videos with your non-Japanese-speaking friends. Original written posts are here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Captioned Video Part 1 of 2 [...]
Japan ready to buy more Europe bonds if needed – Yahoo! News
Bizarro! Pure altruism? More likely neither, but self-interest, tho I can’t figure out why or how. Can someone tell this guy that Japan just suffered an earthquake and tsunami. Quite a big one. Funds needed for reconstruction. And who will pick up the tab when (not if) the euro blows up? TOKYO AFP – Japan [...]
Study Economics online
Robert Murphy has an online course on Introduction to Economic Principles, run by the Mises Academy. It costs $150 and starts Jan. 26th, 2011, and lasts 10 weeks. Read more about it here. Details (and signup link) here. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything [...]
Film-maker predicts hyperinflation; an economist disagrees. Which to believe?
Cover via Amazon On a forum I visit daily, a member had posted a link to an article describing a hyperinflation scenario in the U.S. I visited it. Later in the day, the website owner, economist and historian (and music buff) Gary North responded (members only): I am writing this in response to a site [...]
Economics books that help you tell the future
Image via Wikipedia Historian and Austrian economist Gary North writes that many people are confused by the media’s pronouncements on gold, inflation and deflation: Self-Inflicted Confusion and Paralysis: Thinking About the Economy Without Understanding Economics If called upon to outline the arguments of each position, they could not do it. They have no idea of [...]
“Our fathers lied”
Image via Wikipedia 24hGold, a website devoted to precious metals, includes a randomly selected relevant quotation. Today’s: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. This anti-war sentiment is uncharacteristic of Kipling, and so I had to look it up: where did it come from? When and why did he write [...]
Meltdown in Japanese – just in time for the election?
Image via Wikipedia “Meltdown”, historian Thomas Woods‘s book on the origins and causes of the present financial crisis, based on Austrian Economics Business Cycle Theory, has been translated into Japanese, and can be bought on Amazon Japan. Woods’ own summary/review can be read on the Lew Rockwell website. Just in time for the Japanese elections. [...]
Is anyone minding the store?
Image via Wikipedia Mousetip to Douglas French at Mises Institute. And speaking of “enough”….Here’s another video of Grayson questioning Geithner. Image via Wikipedia I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions’ Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to [...]
