Thoughts from the Frontline: Economists in Glass Houses By John Mauldin For many economists, the chicken and egg question is, which came first, consumption or production? What drives growth? Let’s continue with our series on debt, in which I have been contrasting my views with those of Paul Krugman. Our differences aside, what Paul and […]
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The 10th Man: How I Disproved Efficient Market Theory by Being a DJ By Jared Dillian Yes, DJing is a hobby of mine. I’ve been doing it for about seven years, picking it up late in life. Call it midlife crisis number one. I have had a pretty fun DJ career, all things considered.
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The 10th Man: The Anthropology of Finance By Jared Dillian When I was 11, my grandmother liked to hang out in Bee Bee’s Dairy and smoke cigarettes and drink coffee. The air quality in that place was like modern-day Beijing, with all these old people smoking and shooting the breeze. I used to get ice
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Outside the Box: Shovelin’ Schmitt Against the Tide By John Mauldin There is an obsession in the marketplace over the date when the Fed will once again begin to raise rates. As if another 25 basis points is going to change the economics on tens of trillions of dollars of investments. But as we
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By John Mauldin Some things never change. Here is Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, one of the founding intellectuals of the Austrian school of economics, writing in January 1914, lambasting politicians for their complicity in the corruption of monetary policy:We have seen innumerable variations of the vexing game of trying to generate political contentment through material concessions.
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By Jared Dillian I am a sometimes gold bug and hard-money advocate, and a hard-core fiscal conservative. I have a pretty bearish outlook on the markets, I am generally skeptical of company management and especially journalists, and I think most investors, even the professional ones, are clueless.I’m one of those hopeless romantics who pays down
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By John Mauldin All eyes are focused on Europe this week as another Greek drama plays itself out. I have to admit that in my student days I was forced to sit through a number of Greek dramas, which are admittedly a fine part of our cultural heritage; but while I can appreciate their time
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By Jared Dillian I’ve been following the activities of Syriza for a long time. They started putting up big numbers in the polls in Greece three or four years ago.Syriza has a message that’s very popular with Greeks: Screw Germany. The word they use to describe what’s happened to Greece during the period of time since
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