The 09ers

Explorations In The Sierra Nevadas

The month of setbacks

This has really been a week of set back after set back.  My car was stolen Monday morning in broad daylight right in front of my building. I’m over the car, but it just struck me that I left all my new hiking stuff in the car, including my new boots =(. Now I have [...]

I can’t finish things.

I have six blog posts currently in my drafts folder. The really sad thing is that they are all about 90% of the way finished, and they span many many pages. I wouldn’t really consider that procrastination, I’m not really sure what to call it actually. Something  happens when I see the light at the [...]

Humpty Dumpty…..

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Pappa Benny: I need more power then God!

Bernanke made another one of is  epic speeches the other day. He went crying to congress, as always, to demand more power. He simply just asked for more power then God himself, what’s so wrong with that? He needs this power so he can ‘head off’ all of these financial fires before they get ‘bad’.
I’m [...]

I don’t Like Finance Majors. (second to economists of course)

It seems that I often find myself butting heads more with finance “majors”, or anyone who claims to be an expert in such fields. In fact, I find myself getting more upset with these people, then any other broadly defined stereotype that you would assume that I would butt heads with.
The world of a finance [...]

A Lesson In Scarcity and Value

Real Scarcity and Value
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The “Ethics” (fraud) of Land Owning

“Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.” -F.A. Hayek

Throughout history, it seems that world views have been wrapped around certain paradigms which later we find to be gross moral [...]

“Creating” demand through urban planning.
If you have recently traveled to the twin cities of Minnesota it does not take long to learn that twin may not be an appropriate title. The two cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, are far from looking like they came from the same blood line. While Minneapolis is bustling with business [...]

Immigration, Paris, and Bernanke

Where has all the common sense gone? It seems that fundamental economics has been thrown out the door, and I don’t see it getting better any time soon. I wonder how many times history needs to repeat itself. What ever happened to our founding fathers vision? How has it become a tool of the state [...]