Archives

July 10, 2010: The Argument for a Gold Standard (2010 edition)
June 27, 2010: U.S. Tax Hikes of the 1930s
June 24, 2010: Stimulus, Austerity, and the Spiral of Decline
June 21, 2010: What Happened to the Middle Class?
June 21, 2010: The Deadly Cycle of "Stimulus" and "Austerity"
June 9, 2010: The Coming Keynesian Catastrophe
June 6, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City 2: Pooh-poohing the Naysayers
May 30, 2010: The Flat Tax in Russia
May 23, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City
May 16, 2010: The Service Economy
May 9, 2010: The Two Santa Claus Theory
May 2, 2010: Thoughts on Greece
April 25, 2010: Greenspan, Summers, Tungsten Fakes, and the Secret Gold Standard
April 18, 2010: How to Live the Good Life in the Traditional City
April 12, 2010: How to Buy Real Gold
April 11, 2010: Interpreting Gold and Currencies in an Environment of Official Intervention
April 4, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms 2: How Many Acres Can Sustain a Family?
March 31, 2010: It's Ponzimonium in the Gold Market
March 28, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms
March 23, 2010: China Vs. U.S.: Clashing Monetary Paradigms
March 21, 2010: A New Gold Parity
March 17, 2010: What's the Chinese Word for Baloney?
March 14, 2010: The Traditional City: Bringing It All Together
March 7, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to Suburban Hell
March 9, 2010: Ancient Economic Wisdom Still Applies Today
February 28, 2010: A Gold Standard is a Value Peg
February 21, 2010: Toledo, Spain or Toledo, Ohio?
February 19, 2010: The Problem with the Euro
February 14, 2010: The Problem with Greece
February 7, 2010: Ibn Khaldun, Taxes, and the Rise and Fall of Empires
January 31, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York 2: The Bad and the Ugly
January 24, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York City
January 17, 2010: The Futility of Raising Taxes
January 13, 2010: How to Create Jobs
January 10, 2010: We Could All Be Wizards
January 3, 2010: The GLD Standard

December 27, 2009: What a Real Train System Looks Like
December 20, 2009: Updating Our Commodity Charts
December 13, 2009: Life Without Cars: 2009 Edition
December 6, 2009: In the Long Run, We Are All Dead
November 29, 2009: Capitalism: the State of the Art
November 22, 2009: What Comes After Heroic Materialism?
November 15, 2009: Let's Kick Around Carfree.com
November 8, 2009: The Future Stinks
November 6, 2009: A Brief History of the Dollar
November 1, 2009: Japan's New Government
October 27, 2009: What If We Abolished the Federal Reserve?
October 18, 2009: Let's Take Another Trip to Venice
October 10, 2009: Place and Non-Place
October 9, 2009: New Highs for Gold
September 28, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to Barcelona
September 25, 2009: Does Hong Kong Have the World's Best Health Care System?
September 23, 2009: What $1000+ Gold Means To You
September 20, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity 2: It's All In Your Head
September 13, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity
September 7, 2009: The Treasury's Funding Problem
August 30, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 3: How To Have Fun
August 23, 2009: BOGO Sunday
August 16, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 2: Raw Food Diet
August 9, 2009: Recommended book: For Good and Evil -- the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
July 26, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 3: How the Suburbs Came to Be
July 19, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 2: Downtown
July 12, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village
July 6, 2009: How to Establish an International Currency
June 28, 2009: Inflation Vs. Hyperinflation
June 26, 2009: Where's the Gold?
June 21, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 1: Headphone Audio
June 15, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics" 2: Maybe We Don't Want Growth?
June 5, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics"
May 31, 2009: Getting More Depressing All the Time
May 26, 2009: The Japan Baloney
May 24, 2009: Bernanke's "Making Sure IT Doesn't Happen Here" Speech
May 17, 2009: Negative Interest Rates
May 10, 2009: Updating our Commodity (and other) Charts
May 3, 2009: A Bazillion Windmills
April 26, 2009: Two Monetary Paradigms
April 19, 2009: Let's Kick Around the "Sustainability" Types
April 5, 2009: A Different Kind of Gold Standard
March 29, 2009: A New World Monetary System
March 22, 2009: Time for Action
March 8, 2009: Capitalism Vs. Socialism
March 3, 2009: Let's Visit Some More Villages
February 22, 2009: Public Works Done Right
February 15, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the French Village
February 8, 2009: "Nationalizing" the Banks
February 1, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the English Village
January 25, 2009: How to Buy Gold on the Comex
January 18, 2009: "Austerity" and "Stimulus" 2.0
January 11, 2009: Baby Boomer Retirement Plan
January 4, 2009: Currency Management for Little Countries

December 28, 2008: Currencies are Causes, not Effects
December 21, 2008: Life Without Cars
December 14, 2008: Causes of the Bust
December 9, 2008: Preventing Bubbles
November 30, 2008: Quantitative Easing
November 24, 2008: Russia's Currency Crisis
November 23, 2008: Redeemability and Reserves
November 16, 2008: How To Stabilize the Ruble
November 10, 2008: "Austerity"
November 2, 2008: "Stimulus"
October 27, 2008: Making Currencies that Last
October 26, 2008: Too Much Borrowing Vs. Not Enough Borrowing
October 19, 2008: Keeping Warm for (Almost) Free
October 12, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization 2: Three Examples
October 5, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization
September 28, 2008: Every Crisis is Like All the Others
September 21, 2008: The "Lowering Interest Rates" Boondoggle
September 14, 2008: Depression Economics
September 7, 2008: "Contrarian" Investing for 2009: Preparing for Winter
September 3, 2008: The Battle for Investment Survival
September 1, 2008: How the Fed Works
August 24, 2008: Five Audio Systems
August 10, 2008: Visions of Future Cities
August 5, 2008: Tax Cuts are the Solution to Everything
July 28, 2008: "Why Not the Gold Standard?"
July 20, 2008: The Traditional City Vs. The "Radiant City"
July 14, 2008: What To Do About the Poor People
July 7, 2008: Obama's Tax Plan
July 2, 2008: The Volcker Myth
July 1, 2008: Privatize the Profits. Socialize the Losses.
June 22, 2008: The Inflationary Adjustment Process
June 17, 2008: More Commodity Charts
June 6, 2008: Updating Our Commodity Charts
June 2, 2008: World Without Paper Money
May 24, 2008: Japan: Silly Self-Destructive Behavior
May 18, 2008: Japan: Tax Hikes are No Fun
May 11, 2008: Japan: Now What Are We Going To Do?
May 9, 2008: The Gulf's Currency Solution
May 6, 2008: The Key to Managing Currencies
May 5, 2008: What Is the U.S. Economy?
April 21, 2008: Japan -- WTF is Going On Here?!?
April 13, 2008: This Is So Not Like Japan
April 6, 2008: Liquidationists vs. Interventionists
March 30, 2008: The Capital/Labor Ratio
March 23, 2008: How Banks Work 7: the Lender of Last Resort
March 16, 2008: How Banks Work 6: Liquidy Crises and Bank Runs
March 9, 2008: How Banks Work 5: Selling Loans
March 6, 2008: Worse Than 1973
March 2, 2008: Investing in Gold and Silver
February 24, 2008: How Banks Work 4: Banks and the Economy
February 19, 2008: Nowhere to Hide
February 17, 2008: How Banks Work 3: More Elephant Poop
February 10, 2008: How Banks Work 2: Shitting Like an Elephant
February 3, 2008: How Banks Work
January 27, 2008: Crisis Management
January 13, 2008: Valuing Gold
January 6, 2008: Investing in 2008

December 30, 2007: "Contrarian" Investments for 2008
December 16, 2007: Liquidity and Solvency
December 9, 2007: Updating Our Commodity Charts
December 2, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Tokyo
November 24, 2007: "Printing Money"
November 19, 2007: Bretton Woods II: The Folly of Large Gold Reserves
November 11, 2007: The London Gold Pool I and II (and a David Frum-bashing contest!)
November 4, 2007: What if China began a gold standard tomorrow?
October 28, 2007: Can We Still Avoid Inflation?
October 21, 2007: The "Money Multiplier"
October 14, 2007: Say's Law
October 7, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Venice
September 30, 2007: Taxes and Money
Septenber 23, 2007: The Greenspan Gold Standard
September 2, 2007: Different Kinds of "Money"
August 26, 2007: How To Operate a Gold Standard
August 19, 2007: Gold Standard Fallacies
August 12, 2007: The Credit Boom-Bust Cycle
August 5, 2007: What Happened to the Greenspan Put?
July 22, 2007: Whip Inflation Now
July 15, 2007: Give Yourself the Gift of Music
July 9, 2007: No Growth Economics
June 30, 2007: East Europe's Flat Tax Revolution
June 24, 2007: The Gold Standard in a Nutshell
June 17, 2007: Recipe for Florence
May 26, 2007: 450 Miles Per Gallon
May 21, 2007: Ron Paul or Mike Gravel for President
May 11, 2007: The Inflation Has Already Begun
April 21, 2007: Weights and Measures
April 15, 2007: The Value of Today's Dollars in 1854 Dollars
April 9, 2007: How Far Down For Housing Values?
April 1, 2007: Commodities in the 1970s
March 25, 2007: The Next Gold Standard
March 11, 2007: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
March 4, 2007: The Less-Oil Economy
February 24, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 3: Bits n Pieces
February 17, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 2: Grains
February 10, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities
February 3, 2007: Peak Oil Is Fun
January 27, 2007: Inflationary Recessions 2: Nobody Goes Bust In An Inflation
January 20, 2007: Not a Bear Among Them
January 10, 2007: Inflationary Recessions, Deflationary Recessions (and 'Flationary Recessions)
January 7, 2007: The Ultimate "Contrarian" Investment for 2007 -- Be Prepared

December 25, 2006: The End of the 1972 Bull Market
December 17, 2006: John Stuart Mill on Public Works Spending
December 10, 2006: The Magic Formula
December 3, 2006: The Future of Farming
November 5, 2006: Understanding Gold's Movements
October 22, 2006: The Car of the Future (Is Here Today!)
October 8, 2006: Macro Investing 3: The Principle of Compound Interest
October 2, 2006: Macro Investing 2: Valuation
September 23, 2006: Macro Investing
September 10, 2006: NESARA and the Magic Formula
September 4, 2006: The Demonetization of Silver
August 27, 2006: "The Cost of Equity"
August 20, 2006: The A B C of Money
August 5, 2006: What is Economics About?
July 30, 2006: Growth and Inflation
July 23, 2006: Why Gold?
July 9, 2006: "Fractional Reserve Banking"
July 1, 2006: "Quantitative Tightening"
June 18, 2006: Fixing the Weak Dollar Problem
June 11, 2006: The Nature of Monetary Manipulation
June 3, 2006: Debt and Inflation Part IV
May 28, 2006: Debt Does Not Cause Inflation Part III
May 21, 2006: Debt does not cause inflation part II
May 14, 2006: Guest Lecture: David Ricardo on Gold at $700+!
May 6, 2006: MV=My Butt
April 30, 2006: Value and Quantity
April 15, 2006: Where the Rothbardians Went Wrong
April 9, 2006: Valuing Real Estate V2.0 (This Time It's Different!)
April 2, 2006: Inflation or Deflation?
March 26, 2006: The Eco-Metropolis
March 19, 2006: How to Value Real Estate
March 12, 2006: The "Sacrifice Ratio"
March 4, 2006: Does Debt Creation Cause Inflation?
February 25, 2006: Let's Dream of a Better World
February 19, 2006: Blowing Bubbles and the Wall of Money
February 4, 2006: Was Greenspan Any Good?
January 29, 2006: Is the Government Budget Deficit a Problem?
January 22, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter? Part II
January 8, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter?

December 30, 2005: Is Gold an Investment?
December 17, 2005: The Smoking Gun
December 10, 2005: Ben Bernanke and the Great Depression
December 4, 2005: Interpreting $500 gold
November 26, 2005: The Steering Wheel and Brake Pedal are Disconnected
November 20, 2005: Does "inflation targeting" work?
November 13, 2005: Problems with the Indonesian rupiah