Archive for January, 2009

Jeff Tucker, editorial vice president of the Mises Institute, on the new frontier in “IP.”

Anarcho-capitalist President of the Mises Institute Lew Rockwell on the far-sighted “intellectual clarity” necessary to understand the current economic crisis.

Jake Towne: “Surreptitious market manipulation by government is leading the world to disaster.” – GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee in a $264K full-page color ad in the Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008

Israel paper of record’s analysis of its relations with Hamas.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Turkey PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Palestine-Israel conflict and the process for peace in the Middle East. Israel Pres. Shimon Peres’ response was refused adequate rebuttal by the moderator and PM Erdogan walked off the stage, pledging never to go to Davos again, and headed back to Turkey.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) take questions from the People on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.

Little Alex and Sayyid: Bloomberg’s request for the Federal [sic] Reserve to open its books on how its loaning out hundreds of billions on the backs of hurting people gives the Fed 20 more days to comply.

Little Alex: MSM renowned forecaster Gerald Celente projects the economy’s future after we ‘subsidize the fat-cat losers and penalize the working producers’ with Keynesian economics heading us toward disaster.

Little Alex in Sayyid: Riz Khan interviews Fmr. US Pres. Jimmy Carter, author of Palestine: Peace Not Apatheid, who defines apartheid as a ‘land with two peoples forceably segregated and one dominates the other’ discusses the two-state solution, AIPAC and the geopolitical effects of Palestine-Israel conflict. Carter also takes questions from callers.

Little Alex: The NYT reports that the Federal [sic] Reserve wants a stimulus package to pass so your food, energy, and shelter costs get so high that you have to take out loans from them at interest.

DN! speaks with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), longest serving Independent senator in US history and one of the 34 senators who voted “No” to Obama treasury secretary nominee, fmr. NY Fed chieftain/Wall St. butt-boy, Timothy Geitner.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. on war, Austrian economics, the current economic crisis, and how we got here.

Little Alex and Sayyid: Afghani civilians react to destruction and death after the US attacks last weekend.

Jake Towne: Acts of piracy whether committed by Somalian nationals in desperation or by nation-states like the United States are still acts of piracy!

Jake Towne: A few interesting contrasts between life in China and life in the United States as I ramble from the Chinese Yuan to Fireworks to Freedom of the Press to Global Warming.