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Mind & Market: Capital Loss
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Monday, February 22, 2010. You say you'll change the constitution. Well, you know. We all want to change your head. Just completed Schumpeter (1942). Back in my grad school days, I read selections from this book- primarily to become familiar with Schumpeter's infamous 'creative destruction' concept of the capitalistic process. The gist of his argument appears in Part II of the book and is entitled Can Capitalism Survive? 3) As scale of capitalistic enterprise grows, loss of smal...
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Mind & Market: A-Bomb Mindlessness
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Friday, August 7, 2015. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.". Since that time, all US citizens have been inundated with propaganda, largely during their school years, that dropping the bomb was right. Critical thinkers take the red pill and know differently.
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Mind & Market: Debt Profile
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Sunday, August 9, 2015. You think you're free. You're not.". Diamond Dog (Con Air). That profiles increased tendencies for American households to increase debt and leverage over the past few decades. Approximately 80% of households have some type of debt. Younger Americans hold more debt while having lower incomes (higher leverage ratio). Because debt reduces freedom. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Foundation for Economic Education. Ludwig von Mises Institute. Under no circ...
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Mind & Market: Specialization and Free Markets
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Sunday, August 12, 2012. Specialization and Free Markets. Are outside the lines. High levels of commitment to particular technologies are required to enact specialized production strategies. Because repetitive work can often be automated, specialized production processes usually carry high amounts of capital equipment designed for narrow use. Moreover, repetition is habit forming, and habits are hard to break. As such, significant capital commitments tend to lock pro...Of specia...
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Mind & Market: Debt Reduces Freedom
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Monday, January 10, 2011. Nice TJ quote picked off from a recent Russell tidbit. I place economy among the first and most important public virtues and public debt as the great danger to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.". Economy as TJ uses it here means living within one's means. He is hitting on a fundamental axiom:. Never a Dull Moment.
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Mind & Market: Decline, Part IV
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Decline, Part IV. I never saw you look like this without a reason. Another promise fallen through. Another season passes by you. Twenty years ago, the coated paper industry was in the groove. Today, it's in shambles. The company I used to work for has been bought twice over. Today, there is barely a trace of evidence that the firm even existed. And the host communities have been hammered in kind. Lower yields mean cheaper credit. Cheaper credit mean...
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Mind & Market: Golden Powder Keg
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Trust me guys.duck! Zeus (Die Hard With A Vengeance). Bearish sentiment in gold has rocketed higher as prices have plummeted. Currently small specs and hedge funds are short gold futes in record amounts. Meanwhile, commercials are less short gold (they are rarely long) than they have been in a long while. Lop sided sentiment and record shorts by groups that typically get it wrong at the extremes suggest a powder keg has been wedged under the price of gold.
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Mind & Market: Shrinking Trade
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. There will be no isolation. In our secret separation. Of data points pointing toward recession includes shrinking global trade and commensurate decline in cargo vessel capacity utilization. With market discounting mechanisms essentially broken, chances that prices will significantly lead this news stream are remote. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Foundation for Economic Education. Ludwig von Mises Institute. David Stockman's Contra Corner.
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Mind & Market: Leverage and the Short Term
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Thursday, July 8, 2010. Leverage and the Short Term. Just a little more time is all we're asking for. Cause just a little more time could open closing doors. In a previous post. We considered decision-making time horizons with a focus on what makes decisions more short term oriented. We observed that while people may have an inclination for 'now versus later,' interest rates in unhampered markets serve to balance long-term and short-term thinking on a risk/reward basis. Given le...
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Mind & Market: Still Troublesome
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A Safe Haven for Liberty. Monday, August 10, 2015. In a big country dreams stay with you. Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside. I still have trouble processing it. Once again making my late summer's pilgrimage. To central Wisconsin where I used to live, I remain bothered by how a thriving 100 yr old company could vanish in such a short period of time. Quite literally in some respects, as operating division's worth of assets have been demolished and removed. As observed on previous visits. View my ...
