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Capitalist News Archive

The fascinating Australian web site of Leithner & Co., Pty. Ltd. contains a wealth of material combining economic theory, financial economics, and Benjamin Graham's views on investing. Some interesting places to start:
bulletWhy Have They All Been Fooled? (on fallacies of consumption versus savings)
bulletA Tale of Two Islands(on savings and investment)
bulletGDP and COnsumer Confidence in Australia(on Keynes elevation of psychological factors over real factors).
bulletPutting Capital Back into Capitalism(capital theory)
bulletInterest Rates, Corporate Debt and the Business Cycle
bulletInflation and Deflation: Some Dissenting Throughts for Value Investors
bulletWhat if Böhm-Bawerk was Right?

thanks to http://www.mises.org/blog/

Myths of our time: globalisation
(Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese)

Zimbabwe's inflation hits record

Zimbabwe claims farmers' tractors

Zimbabwe 'repossesses' black land

In Zimbabwe, Food Stocks Dwindle, Donors Not Responding

ZIMBABWE: Pensioners hurt by record inflation

Zimbabwe's economy may do what politicians can't

Wall Street great says the market is broken

Wal-Mart and the invisible hand

From the President: The Great German Inflation

Eyewitness: Zimbabwe's endless queues

Zimbabwe's changed land

Long wait for Zimbabwean recovery

Zimbabwe rebellion 'not helpful'

China tries to cool economy by curbing the supply of money

Hondurans riot over IMF reforms

Iraq needs tens of billions

Zimbabwe ends fuel controls

Billions, Trillions, Who Cares?

More On The Trade Wars

Private Provision of Public Goods

Boom or Mirage?

Mandatory Universal Health Insurance?

Roberts and Anderson

Gold is not Money

Central Planning Follies

Electricity Deregulation Strikes Again?

Inflation Fears Touch Bonds

China Planning Constitutional Changes

Atlas Shrugging in Santa Fe

California's debt 'nearly junk'

Europe plans food name fight

Back to Basics

The Route to Poverty

KUDLOW'S RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Five Financial-Market Fallacies This guy actually claims that savings is bad for the economy..... he has no brains....

Wall Street great says the market is broken

Revealed: the great stock market swindle

Decline of the Dollar

TWO CHEERS FOR DEFLATIONARY MONETARY POLICY

Wireless firms raise fees, blame FCC rules

Money, it's a gas Read this article and then read anything on the Austrian theory of the business cycle. I believe you will find it enlightening.

Continuing Jobless Claims at 20-Year High

Jobless claims rise to 439,000

Americans work more than ever

UK interest rates cut to 3.5%

Recovery or Boomlet?

Silver -The Undervalued Asset Looking For A Catalyst

Deflation worries

Hey Greenspan

Quantitative easing no solution for US economy

NZ labour pulls its weight

U.S. could be hit hard if world loses faith in dollar

Gold more attractive

Gold only fiat-dollar insurance

The buck stops – with gold

PM: Immediate usage of gold dinar not possible

How Labour stole your retirement

The Dollar’s Last Days

Declining Dollar, Declining Fortunes

KUDLOW'S RECIPE FOR DISASTER, ROTHBARD'S WISDOM FOR THE AGES

The Hole Story
How Krispy Kreme became the hottest brand in America

Meeting Iraq's demand for dinars

U.S. online suppliers to levy EU tax

Does the global economy need a global currency?

The Fed Fuels Overcapacity

The Great Man's Car Co. Misfiring

Italy's Tyranny

Credit Bubble Bulletin

Deflation

Beige Book Summary

Palestinians prefer free trade agreement to Paris Accord

US-Australia Free Trade warnings

Bangladeshi call for free trade with India

Japan to Propose Free-Trade Talks With South Korea, Nikkei Says

US, Chile to sign free trade pact on June 6 

Free-trade agreement with US possible, envoy claims

India, Singapore negotiate free trade pact

Lockwood Smith: We need free trade deal with US

SA-US free trade likely - official

The real story on free trade and jobs

Free trade with US no big deal

The $44 trillion hole?

This Is Reflation . . .

Learning to Love Deflation

Boost your command of economics

Why isn't Japan broke?

Luxury Goods Special

Japanese economy at a standstill

Boycott the Boycotters

French economy shrinks

Trade bedevilled by geopolitics

Argentine workers seize factories trying to save jobs

US factories, mines, utilities cut output in February

China's economy

Baghdad building bonanza?

The American scheme: pushing the tax envelope

World Bank to help rebuild Iraq

Companies blame latest retreat on war

Manufacturing activity tumbles

US steel tariffs 'broke rules'

Govs Propose Major Tax Hikes

Power Lust

The Fed official who cried 'bubble' long before it burst

Net’s importance grows, survey finds

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

Bush Sends Congress $2.2 Trillion Budget

Bush plans huge military spend

Weak Economy to Boost Food Stamp Use

Record deficits in Bush budget

Pimco's Gross warns of dire times

U.S. Jobs Lost Nationwide From High Steel Prices in 2002

What's Making Gold Glitter?

Safe-haven gold receives support from Europeans

After the gold rush

Argentina says it can lift deposit curbs by May

Why gold is gaining in a world awash with dollars I don't agree with everything he says, but he has some good points.

URGENT: SEND CAPITALISM

Op-Ed: Why is capitalism in crisis?

STRANGE ECONOMY

Ghost of Malthus hovers around India's grain godowns in 2002

Our Vision for Rapid Economic Recovery

Crude above $33 on fears of low supply

Thousands cheer as Silva becomes Brazil's first elected leftist president

Americas Stocks End Higher; Hope Lifts Argentine Issues

Little reason for joy over 2003's limited tax cuts

Myth of the Price Level

Russian money supply up 20.4% in Jan-Nov

Explaining Japan's Recession

Wary investors fear the point of no returns

Rising oil prices hit consumers

Rising oil prices could trigger interest rate rises

Fed switches focus to deflation
Greenspan says tools are available
Yea and the tool is called a "printing press", here comes inflation.

Tax on agricultural income not acceptable: Rajnath

States consider Internet sales tax

Agreement On US 3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Signed

Slump as horizon grows darker

German reforms urged

New tax plan may bring burden shift

Having To Run Faster Just To Stay In The Same Place

Resisting blame for bubble, Greenspan fires back at critics

Argentina court stalls deposits ruling, aid at risk

Argentina peso stable at 7-month high, shares dip

Austria's schilling spending spree

Many not saving for retirement

UK house prices 'face sharp fall'

Americans spend as factories sink

Brutal Christmas for stores

Chinese shoppers queue for gold

A big economic rebound in '03? It may be a long shot