Wenzel on Carney
Here is commentary from Robert Wenzel on that great John Carney post I blogged about last week. He writes:
Carney’s article is the most sound presentation of the Austrian School’s view on gold with reference to price stability that I have ever seen in mainstream media. Carmey gets it.
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Success of the impact of the Mises Institute in a small anecdote; one well educated convert at a time:
A Long Wait
Poland’s foreign minister told EU officials his country will join the euro zone “when you have resolved your problems and when we can say to our people ‘we can now safely join.’ “
Ludwig von Mises on Sound Money
“It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights. The demand for constitutional guarantees and for bills of rights was a reaction against arbitrary rule and the nonobservance of old customs by kings. The postulate of sound money was first brought up as a response to the princely practice of debasing the coinage.”
If Only D’Souza Were Right
Ron Paul: “I don’t like politics at all... What I’m talking about is an ideological revolution”
Ron Paul interviewed today on Bloomberg: Reporter: “As you are reflecting back on your campaign, are you unhappy with your party?” Ron Paul: “Well, it’s not my party. I don’t like politics at all... As far as being pleased I am super pleased with what’s working... I am super-energized and optimistic about what’s happening, because the ideas are changing.
CNBC’s Carney on the Chimera of Price Stability
CNBC’s John Carney schools Krugman and other critics of the gold standard on the Austrian rejection of the chimera of price stability (the Monetarist half of the Fed’s “dual mandate”), citing Rothbard, Salerno, and Herbener (emphasis added):
Period of Production, Duration of Serviceableness, and Period of Provision
“The concepts of period of production [i.e., time-period AB] and duration of serviceableness [of the consumers’ good, i.e., time-period BC] are present in all human action. There is also a third time-period that enters into action. Each person has a general time-horizon, stretching from the present into the future, for which he plans various types of action.
Was Mises Bankrolled by the Financial Elite?
I know I am spending too much time on these crazy LaRouchian claims — see my post on the argument that Austrian economics benefits the plutocrats, and therefore has been promoted by them.