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Construction Forecast - Electrical Focus

The downturn in the electrical industry is currently forecasted to be down for awhile - in fact 2013 revenues are projected to be less than 2006, and that includes inflation and the gyrations in the commodity markets! Commercial construction is ...

From DAVID GORDON, Gerson Lehrman Group,  22 Nov 2009

Trends and Traditions: Generating Consistently Successful Investment Results

Support and Resistance Think of share price fluctuations as a skirmish between buyers (bulls) and sellers (bears). The price at which bears and bulls reach a consensus and a trade takes place is the clearing price. There is a level at which bulls think ...

From DAVID GORDON, Seeking Alpha,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: AutoZone, Inc.,  Samuel Johnson

Understanding Liquidity and Modern Market Volatility

Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) now account for approximately one-third of all NASDAQ trading, especially with the advent many years ago of deep-discount commissions via on-line transactions. A battle back then began to brew between the ...

From DAVID GORDON, ETF Investor,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NASDAQ,  NYSE,  Merrill Lynch,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  ACORN

The Keynes Solution?

It is not often that Paul Samuelson and Paul Krugman are indicted for lack of fidelity to Keynes, but this is exactly Paul Davidson's complaint against them. Davidson is a leading Post Keynesian, who holds that almost all economists, even professed ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Paul Davidson,  Paul Krugman,  Paul Samuelson

You and the State

[You and the State: A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy • By Jan Narveson • Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 • Xi + 215 pages] Jan Narveson is one of the best contemporary moral and political philosophers, and it is not surprising that his ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Murray Rothbard,  Walter Block

Against Preemptive Strike

During the 1920s and 1930s, a majority of Americans came to believe that our involvement in World War I had been a horrendous mistake. The war was supposed to have made the world safe for democracy, but fascism, communism, and aggressive nationalism ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  30 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Robert Taft,  U.S. Republican Party

Private Property's Philosopher

Professor Hans Hoppe, in his outstanding new introduction to the reissue of The Ethics of Liberty, hits the nail on the head. He contrasts Murray Rothbard with Robert Nozick, a much more famous figure among academic philosophers and political theorists. ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Murray Rothbard

Truth to Power

A great many people have learned from Mises and Rothbard, but Lew Rockwell belongs to a much more select class: he has developed their thought in an original way. His essay, "The Economics of Discrimination," included in the present collection of ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Murray Rothbard,  Friedrich Hayek,  North American Free Trade Agreement,  Robert Higgs,  George W. Bush

Security Without a State

The Bush administration's invasion of Iraq provides one further confirmation, if any were needed, of Randolph Bourne's dictum, "war is the health of the state." Faced with so massive an instance of aggression, the question arises: can we do without the ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Walter Block,  Murray Rothbard

Rothbard's Last Triumph, Part 2

The reader of this, the second volume of Rothbard's last great work, will at once face a puzzle: how was one person able to unify so vast a mass of material into a tightly organized narrative? I cannot pretend to provide a full answer, but one part of ...

From DAVID GORDON, Ludwig von Mises Institute,  22 Sep 2009

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