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  It’s not enough that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer jailed Martha Stewart, banned trans fats in New York, harassed business within an inch of its life, and grafted onto just about every other left-fascist cause provided it was politically correct and increased his personal power. It turns out that it was he who waged war on prostitution by

The headlines are so packed with hilarious things that it’s hard not to comment, particularly on this Ferraro/race thing . She has caused a firestorm with her comments on Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he

This is an open thread to discuss the question I (and others) continually receive many queries about. What does your portfolio look like? What is the long-term strategy? What are you diversifying into? What are you shorting? What are you bullish about? What economic analysis tools or methodologies do you use? Do you try to take advantage of

Reading about the Harvard vote to offer all research papers and notes online for free, one detects a strong anti-commercial ethic at work here, which also helps to sell the idea to an ideological “leftist” faculty. I’m reading about this after having laughed at the ethos of the Free Artist License ,  i.e. copyleft, the rationale of which is tinged

A cartoon printed in Percy Greave’s Understanding the Dollar Crisis :

Suddenly, it’s stagflation . Or you could have known about this 4 months ago . 

Someone asked for handout on inflation to pass out in front of the Fed. This is quick . See what you think. It’s from 1950.

Here is a howler from Paul Krugman: The fact is that war is, in general, expansionary for the economy, at least in the short run. World War II, remember, ended the Great Depression. The $10 billion or so we’re spending each month in Iraq mainly goes to US-produced goods and services, which means that the war is actually supporting demand. Yes,

I’ve been struck by what a lost treasure is Essential of Economics by Faustino Ballve. For the person just getting oriented, it makes an excellent 2nd book after Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson . The book came out in the mid 1960s and stayed in print for some years, but then vanished for no good reason. This new edition is very beautiful and the

Human Action is available through Amazon , after having been lost in the shuffle of editions out there. This is the only version that is the first edition published in 1949. It is, however, more expensive than buying directly from