Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

A recent conversation with an acquaintance elicited this response from me. I memorialize it here:
Worldwide regulation already is well underway.
National accounting standards are giving way to IFRS, national regulatory structures are converging through international treaties, national legal systems are increasingly a hybrid of common and civil law, Global English is the language of global [...]

PBS.org is shilling a new book by a former Al Gore speechwriter, in which the author has repackaged the work of Abraham Maslow. In spite of its derivative nature, the story is interesting and worth the 9.5 minutes to watch it.
This echos points that I made in a rather long post on 13 March [...]

This is a repost of a passage from my 12 June 2009 “Earthquakes and Mountains.” In light of recent events in the USA, it seems apropos.
Today, we are witnessing something of an anti-fall of the one remaining Great Power. Where once there was a bright shining Emerald City at the peak of the [...]

A friend recently asked me for a letter of recommendation to accompany his application to enter a PhD program in Economics that has an emphasis on the Austrian School. He and I have known each other for more than a decade and we have worked together in academic and non-academic settings. He has [...]

It is sad that this point is not more widely understood, especially among those who really should know better, but way too many individuals conflate ‘corporatism’ (or ‘corporate fascism’, if you prefer) with ‘capitalism’.
Conventionally, a) the belief in the rights of humans to move their persons, goods, and money freely to and from wherever they [...]

In June 2009, I argued that the world twenty years from now could be as different from the world of twenty years ago, as 1933 was from 1893.
In November 2009, I discussed Wilhelm Röpke’s distinction between imperium and dominium, i.e. the difference between government domination and market domination. Essentially, imperium is delivered through military intervention [...]