    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 05/12/2013 13:31 By definition, exports from country A have to equal imports from country B. Unless country A is China. Then, central planning magic happens, as can be seen in the chart below showing the misreporting of Chinese exports to HK and HK’s reported imports from China, which is [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden on 05/11/2013 11:29 -0400 While Argentina’s recent extraordinary attempts at central planning have been widely documented, ranging from freezing supermarket prices in a (failed) attempt to control inflation, to banning advertising in a (failed) attempt to weaken the private media, so far nothing has worked at stabilizing the economy and [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/24/2013 11:00 By now it is well known that the ubiquity of central planning (not to mention the persistent threat of HFT flash crashes as exhibited by yesterday’s twitter-driven #Hash crash) in capital “markets”, has made trading stocks in a rigged casino a sucker’s game – one that retail [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / April 5, 2013 The carrot of self-sustaining recovery will remain out of reach, for the policies presented as the path to recovery preclude the “virtuous cycle” everyone desires. The enduring myth of the post-2008 era is that central-planning money printing and deficit spending would soon spark a [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 04/01/2013 15:24 - A mere nine months after we first discussed the inevitability of Stockton, CA.’s bankruptcy, a judge has ordered today that the city will now become the most populous in the US to be declared bankrupt. *STOCKTON CREDITORS DIDN’T NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH, JUDGE [...] thedailybell.com / By Anthony Wile / March 30, 2013 A book review in the Wall Street Journal by associate professor of economics at San Jose State University Jeffrey Hummel entitled “The New Central Planning” tends to confirm the perspective that the Federal Reserve is under continued attack. The upshot may be a new monetary [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 03/29/2013 18:25 “We must buy government bonds” – who said it? No, it wasn’t Ben Bernanke or Alan Greenspan, it wasn’t Jean-Claude Trichet or his successor Mario Draghi, nor was it Mervyn King, Carney, Shirakawa, or Hildebrand. The answer, as shocking as it may sound, was… [...] dailyreckoning.com / By Bill Bonner / 03/06/13 The Dow is still rising. It rose another 38 points yesterday… apparently headed for a new record high. Gold is dawdling. We’re still thinking about how so many smart people came to believe things that aren’t true. Krugman, Stiglitz, Friedman, Bernanke — all seem to have a [...] zerohedge.com / Monetary Metals / March 4, 2013, 12:36 -0500 Far too many people believe that gold serves no useful purpose. I am therefore publishing this response to The 10 Minute Gold Standard: It’s Much Easier than You Think by Nathan Lewis. Mr. Lewis, a professed advocate of the gold standard, argues that even if [...] silver-coin-investor.com / By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis / February 28, 2013 A comparison of two types of intervention has become interesting with respect to silver. First of all, Central Planning support of the mortgage and housing markets has already reached the supernova stage. There seems nowhere left to go, as real interest rates are already [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / February 28, 2013 Europe’s Green Recovery … BRUSSELS – The need for clean energy has returned to the top of the global economic agenda … In his second inaugural address, US President Barack Obama discussed climate change more than any other issue, saying, “We cannot cede to other [...] peakprosperity.com / by Charles Hugh Smith / Monday, February 25, 2013, 4:55 PM What could go wrong with the housing ‘recovery’ in 2013? To answer this question, we need to understand that housing is the key component in household wealth. And, that Central Planning policies are aimed at creating a resurgent “wealth effect,” as [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / February 24, 2013, 20:56 Via Louis-Vincent Gave of GK Research (A Gavekal Company), Lemmings And The Quandary of Negative Real Rates For most portfolio managers, investable assets can be thought of as sitting somewhere on the risk-return curve shown below. Of course, depending on valuations at a particular point [...] lfb.org / By Jeffrey Tucker / February 15, 2013 There are certain sounds that tend to make people crazy. Think of nails on a chalkboard. An infant screaming nonstop on a long flight. A piercing whistle that won’t go away. Now we need to add another: a U.S. president who thinks he can legislate [...] peakprosperity.com / by Charles Hugh Smith / Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 9:23 AM At some point, absorbing more information about the unsustainability of modern society yields diminishing returns. It becomes emotionally draining and thus counterproductive. Part of this exhaustion results from recognizing our powerlessness within the Status Quo, where independent thinking and structural innovation [...] blog.milesfranklin.com / By Bill Holter / January 18th, 2013 The U.S. mint has suspended sales of American Silver Eagles because… they ran out of “blanks.” It was Jeff “GATA you are liars” Christian who explained to us a few years back that “blanks” were the machine that stamps out the coins, how funny [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / January 17, 2013 Keynesian policy requires an expansionist Central State and Bank bent on imposing central planning on every level of the economy. Keynesians are natural partners with the neofeudal financial Aristocracy which benefits so enormously from Keynesian print-borrow-blow policies. Here is the standard Keynesian cargo-cult analysis of [...] azizonomics.com / By John Aziz / January 10, 2013 Mercantilist trade policies have returned in a big, big way. Dani Rodrik: The liberal model views the state as necessarily predatory and the private sector as inherently rent-seeking. So it advocates a strict separation between the state and private business. Mercantilism, by contrast, offers a [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / January 3, 2013 Is masking risk, cost and consequence a strategy that leads to success? No; it is a pathway to catastrophic failure. What are the core characteristics of the spoiled teenager? The conventional view is that the spoiled teen “gets everything they want.” In my view, the [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 01/03/2013 07:53 Back in April 2012, in “How The Fed’s Visible Hand Is Forcing Corporate Cash Mismanagement” we first explained how despite its best intentions (to boost the Russell 2000 to new all time highs, a goal it achieved), the Fed’s now constant intervention in capital markets has achieved [...]
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / January 1, 2013 Ironically, the very success of stock market manipulation only thins the market of legitimate participants and thus increases the probability that risk that has been suppressed for years will erupt uncontrollably. Longtime correspondent B.C. recently shared some provocative thoughts on the nature of [...] wealthcycles.com / By The WealthCycles Staff / December 26, 2012 Ludwig Von Mises teaches us the path to light, by explaining why, logically, centrally planned economies throughout history have invariably failed: In short, all have an unsolvable economic calculation problem. In other words, no human planners can possibly [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / November 8, 2012 The Japanese model of incrementally perfecting consumer technologies may well have have reached marginal returns. Do we have what it takes to get from here to there? This apparently simple question offers profound insights into the dynamics of individuals, households, enterprises and nation-states. If [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / October 31, 2012 The next “Frankenstorm” to hit New York will be financial. The destructive whirlwind that hits New York in 2013 will be a financial Frankenstorm. Four years of glorious central-planning “extend and pretend” have enriched the political and financial Aristocracies, and imbued [...] gainspainscapital.com / September 28, 2012 Regarding the recent Central Bank coordinated intervention, the key take-away point is that the ECB and US Federal Reserve attempted “shock and awe” tactics with their latest announcements by throwing out words such as “unlimited” and “open-ended.” The implication here was that the Central Banks would do [...] wealthcycles.com / By Michael Maloney / September 18, 2012 In the September 10 piece How to End the Fed, and How Not To, we stated that it was “no secret that Mike Maloney is an Austrian when it comes to economic theory; another term is laissez faire, or simply, classical economics. It is a philosophy [...] sovereignman.com / By Simon Black / August 8, 2012 I’ve noticed something strange over the past few weeks, maybe you have too. It seems that every ‘contrarian’ website out there has joined together to collectively bash the Olympics and anyone who tunes in to watch. This seems nuts. Nobody should feel guilty for wanting [...] goldmoney.com / By Felix Moreno de la Cova / July 5, 2012 The dream of developing a science that would allow wise philosopher kings to rule humanity from ivory towers is as old as Plato, but it received a significant boost during the 20th Century as “scientific” socialism searched for the tools to replace [...] azizonomics.com/ by John Aziz / May 25, 2012 The theory of output as a whole, which is what The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state. John Maynard Keynes In looking at and assessing the economic paradigm of John Maynard [...] |
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