Archive for October, 2008
Warren Buffett as Shill
Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:21 Comments OffMy new article is up at LewRockwell.com. I turned this blog into a longer article. The reception has been huge – both email and article. The rate of agreement is about 97%. There are a few people, however, who still don’t get it, nor have they done their due diligence on Warren Buffett, the good [...]
Ride That Treadmill Like You Stole It
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:47 Comments OffMy new fitness article is up at LewRockwell.com.
Warren Buffett, Government Propagandist?
Monday, October 20, 2008 20:49 Comments OffI’ll tell you what the real purpose is behind Warren Buffet’s column in the New York Times. Warren writes, “Buy American. I Am.” He goes on to tell Americans to not panic and flee equities, but instead, buy them. That’s right – Warren Buffett wants people to buy equity stakes in American companies. He’s doing [...]
Imogen Heap – Great Song
Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:28 Comments OffI found this on Facebook. What an elaborate and beautiful arrangement.
Wine Freedom
Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:54 Comments OffIf you live in Michigan, you can’t buy wine from out-of-state. The state has prohibited out-of-state retailers from shipping wine straight to Michigan consumers – unless the retailers have a location in Michigan and are a part of a three-tier regulatory system. But a federal judge in Detroit earlier this month declared Michigan’s law unconstitutional [...]
It’s Dim, It’s Dark, and We Have Ideas
Saturday, October 18, 2008 18:48 Comments OffHenry G. Manne writes this in Forbes magazine: We can anticipate a new reign of mercantilism, as the protectionists among us wield this strong new weapon against globalization and open markets. And all of this is true in large degree regardless of who wins the forthcoming election. If Sarbanes-Oxley was any indication of the kind [...]
Anna Schwartz on the “Credit Market Disturbance”
Saturday, October 18, 2008 14:34 Comments OffSee this article in the Wall Street Journal, where Brian Carney speaks to Anna Schwartz, the monetary and banking historian, about The Disturbance. Her “A Monetary History of the United States,” co-written with Milton Friedman, was one of the very first serious works I had ever read, back in the 80′s (thanks to libertarian talk [...]
The Famous F___ You From a Hedge Fund Manager
Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:33 Comments OffIn case you haven’t run across this yet, here’s the celebrated sayonara from hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde of Lahde Capital Management. He has a raging libertarian streak, and he’s spot-on about spoiled, Ivy-League a-holes. His last paragraph about pot and pharmaceuticals is bang on, though few people get it.
Left-Wing Extortion Scheme Against the Nation’s Banks
Thursday, October 16, 2008 21:14 Comments Off“The Community Reinvestment Act funnels billions to left-wing activists, while threatening to destabilize lower-middle-class neighborhoods.” This is a stunning article on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) that is making its way around the Internet. It’s long, and it will infuriate you. And this was published in 2000.
Diminishing Property Rights Will Lead to a Higher Rate of Mortgage Defaults
Thursday, October 16, 2008 21:09 Comments OffEric Englund, on LewRockwell.com, almost three-and-a-half years ago. Now the big question becomes what will happen to the real estate market when long-term interest rates (and, most likely, unemployment) begin to rise? One must look at how Americans have become conditioned, by the federal government, to uncritically view the issue of private property rights. We [...]



