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online.wsj.com - 14 days ago
Mark Spitznagel: The Man Who Predicted the Depression
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MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises's ideas on business cycles were spelled out in his 1912 tome "Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel" ("The Theory of Money ...
cafehayek.com - 13 days ago
Keynes on Mises — and on Himself
— cafehayek.com — Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Wall Street Journal: Kudos to Mark Spitznagel for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (” The Man Who Predicted the Depression ,” Nov. ... (more) Keynes on Mises — and on Himself

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Saturday Perspectives and Insights
TraderFeed — ... video perspectives on reading the tape and trading the market open; * Trader Planet offering free e-book on riding out the economic storm; * Thoughts on diversification and hedging; * Broad measure of unemployment over 17%; * Unemployment getting worse, not better; * Lessons from von Mises; also, why runaway inflation is inevitable. . ...

All About Mises, from the Wall Street Journal
Mises Economics Blog — From last evening in the Wall Street Journal, a very good piece. Nothing new for readers of Mises.org but still very encouraging. The Man Who Predicted the Depression Ludwig von Mises explained how government-induced credit expansions led to imbalances in the economy. By MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises's ideas on business cycles were spelled out in his 1912 tome "Theorie des Geldes und der ...

Keynes on Mises — and on Himself
Cafe Hayek — ... Kudos to Mark Spitznagel for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (”The Man Who Predicted the Depression,” Nov. 7). ...

Mises In WSJ
Stefan Karlsson's blog — Ludwig von Mises' business cycle theory is presented in the Wall Street Journal.Saying that he predicted the current recession is a bit misleading. It would be more accurate to say that he provide the theoretical framework to explain it. Also, he took his cue from more than Hume and Ricardo, for example ...

Cavalcade of Miscellany: Capitalism, Food, and Health
Division of Labour — ... , a response to this WSJ piece arguing that we ignore Mises at our peril . Boudreaux points out that Keynes dismissed Mises's Theory of Money and Credit but then later all but admitted that his German wasn't good enough for him to really understand the ideas in the 1912 German edition. 8. FTC-mandated disclosure: I've received no valuable consideration in exchange for talking about these things. [image]

Fixing what's broken by breaking it yet again
The Mess That Greenspan Made — The op-ed section of the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal offers another look at Austrian economics as it relates to the ongoing economic crisis in this commentary by hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel. ...

Mises in the Wall Street Journal
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — Mark Spitznagel has a piece in the Wall Street Journal on Ludwig von Mises' classic book, The Theory of Money and Credit . It's good that Spitznagel is calling our attention to this classic, which is still worth reading. But he makes two errors, one of which has been noticed in the blogosphere and the other of which hasn't. Pierre Lemieux has noted by e-mail that Spitznagel is incorrect in claiming that Keynes's General Theory "was peppered with fancy math." It wasn't. It was largely literary and, as Lemieux points out, if Keynes had used more math, we probably ...

Monday's Daily News
Club for Growth — Michael Reagan is in Berlin to reflect on his father's role in helping bring down the Wall twenty years ago. Two solid WSJ editorials: The Lords of Entitlement and Why the Berlin Wall Fell. John Tamny asks, "If Obama is so bad, why are the markets up?" Ludwig von Mises: The man who predicted the Great Depression. President Obama has started an accidental war on America's exporters. According to Aaron Blake of The Hill, here are the top ten conservative conundrums of 2010. There are ...

The MSM Rediscovers the Classics
Organizations and Markets — ... Happily, the mainstream media is rediscovering other writers too. Last week the WSJ ran a nice piece on Mises, “The Man Who Predicted the Depression,” focusing on Mises’s 1912 Theory of Money and Credit (the book dismissed by Keynes as unoriginal, with Keynes admitting, a few years later, that he understood German well enough to comprehend things he already knew, but not to grasp anything new). “With interest rates at zero, monetary engines humming as never before, and a self-proclaimed Keynesian government, we are back again embracing ...

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