Recent content by TrentEmberson

Barter clubs popped up like dandelions in Argentina after their collapse. It's becoming a natural response in every country where the IMF gets involved. One organization in particular, la Red Global de Trueque, has been copied by half of South America. BBC did a piece on them a few years ago...

The proprietors of inflation.us are natural scam artists. They've fused the pump and dump with web 2.0 and married it to a sales pitch that dovetails with a very real and important political movement. If you've read or watched enough of the material they plagiarize you can pick up the vibe...

I wouldn't use any non-fiction at the outset of a libertarian conversion. How about a story that leads the reader into despising the state rather than a manifesto of why the writer despises the state? For me anyway, I knew I hated Javert (or Big Brother, or Jack from Lord of the Flies, or...

The Wire "Shining up shit and calling it gold so majors become colonels and mayors become governors, pretending to do police work while one generation fucking trains the next how not to to do the job." "There's never been a paper bag for drugs. Until now." "If we're teaching the kids the...

My favorites, in order of asskick-itude. Pino Solanas's Memoria del Saqueo (english subs) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs Graham Hancock's Quest for the Lost Civilization - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amqlYJsbr54 History Channel Albert Einstein -...

I think the video you're talking about is this one from the Murray Sabrin fundraiser from 2008, although he's talked about it elsewhere. The idea is if the interest payments are more than the government can raise in revenues, they'll have to monetize to pay the nominal amount. This printing...

When these attacks come from the right, I think the best way is to compare the person calling Ron Paul and his people kooky/conspiracy/anti-semites to Janeane Garofalo calling them and their tea party friends racists. It's the same ad hominem BS, and if you can make them look like the...

Brother Ali - "Uncle Sam Goddamn".

I just got an email from the MisesDev google group, apparently they've compiled their entire site into a 211GB torrent located here -> http://mises.org/services/torrents/MisesDotOrgMay2011.torrent. I think their intention is for interested developers to put it on their localhosts and get...

David Morgan of silver-investor.com said he recently sold some of his trading position (25% of his entire physical position.) My own answer hasn't changed over the past 6 months, when someone else on RPF asked the same question. Hope that guy didn't sell, or he's going to have to buy back at...

Same way I'd sell coke at a house party - give 'em a taste for free, then let them see you walking in and out of the bedrooms (and closing the door behind you) with the cool people and hot girls. The same way Cartman sold tickets to his amusement park (♪"So much to do at Cartmanland, but you...

Not theft, progress. The market will force their business models to change. Not all digital content can be shared/pirated - ask Blizzard or Rhapsody. The name of the game is keep your product behind a firewall and charge a monthly fee for access. It's just a question of how many torrents...

Even the wrong ones want us running the treasury. Business-cycle carry traders and bond vigilantes, represent!

I'm just glad they're showing the Judge, it means we're moving up in the world. Stary Hickory and Low Preferences got the specifics right, but just the fact that Stewart's moment of zen is focused in on one of ours talking philosophy means we're on the rise. And let's be honest, don't we...

I'd add Endeavour (AMEX:EXK) and Great Panther (AMEX:GPRLF) to Cubical's list as a couple of the top small to mid-tier producers. One of the mining stock guys I follow on twitter (sez_me_man) won't stop banging on about how cheap SSRI is compared to the other majors by market cap/oz. of silver...