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February 2011 FEBRUARY•2011 PULSE ON THE MARKET Page 4 Name Calling • Mobs Ponder Opportunity’s Knocking LMRBUILDING THE 10% Waves of Inflation THE FED’S ACCOUNTING MAGIC TRICK Feature Story • Page 14 Adventures In Economics INTERVIEW WITH DR. RICHARD BUILDING M. EBELING ECONOMIC PROFESSOR THE 10% NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY Page 21 IBC AND AUSTRIAN Feature Story • Page 6 ECONOMICS LARA-MURPHY REPORT LMR FEBRUARY 2011 Bring a Privatized Banking Seminar to your city. Present the powerful combination of • Demystifies Fractional Reserve Banking • Learn how you can personally secede from Austrian Economics, our crumbling monetary regime and improve your financial future. The Sound Money Solution • Sound economic reasoning with a sound private strategy to direct the individual & The Infinite Banking Concept toward the escape exit. • Learn the warning signs of a coming crash to your Special Group and the steps you need to take to avoid them. 3 Speaker / Authors from the Austrian School of Economics L. Carlos Lara Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. Paul A. Cleveland, Ph.D. 3 Dynamic, Informative, Inspirational and Educational Hours Inquire directly with Carlos Lara 615-482-1793, or Robert P. Murphy 212-748-9095, or e-mail us at [email protected] FEBRUARY 2011 LMR 1 Overview LARA-MURPHY REPORT February 2011 - Looking back at the world we will naturally see that our society has lost its way. We must do our part to bring back the essence of the Constitution. 3 F EATURED BUILDING THE 10% IBC AND AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS People are doing the right things. Mises, Nelson Nash, Ron Paul, Andrew Jackson...and you! BY L. CARLOS LARA 6 THE FED’S ACCOUNTING MAGIC TRICK Accounting is all about tracking assets and liabilities... 14 unless you are the FED. BY DR. ROBERT P. MURPHY E CONOMIC D EEP E ND PULSE ON THE MARKET Name Calling • Mobs Ponder Opportunity’s Knocking • Waves of Inflation 4 ADVENTURES IN ECONOMICS INTERVIEW WITH DR. RICHARD M. EBELING ECONOMIC PROFESSOR @ NORTHWOD UNIV. Austrian Economic principles are coming into vogue through several means. Dr. Ebeling travelled to Russia 21 to help resurrect new Mises light. Is it all too late? O NE M ORE T HING EVENTS & ENGAGEMENTS You may want to learn more in person from Lara, Murphy, and other Austrian economists. Here 27 is where they will be in the coming months. 2 LMR SEPTEMBER 2010 ABOUT LARA & MURPHY L. CARLOS LARA manages a consulting firm specializing in corporate trust services, business L. Carlos Lara consulting and debtor- creditor relations. LMREditor in Chief The firm’s primary service is working with Dr. Robert P. 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Photo’s are from various public domain sources unless otherwise noted. FEBRUARY 2011 LMR 3 “It is the masses that determine the course of history, but its initial movement must start with the individual.” - How Privatized Banking Really Works LARA-MURPHY REPORT February 2011 Dear Readers, How did power, force and might move into the political center stage here in America? How did the enduring, or eternal, move toward the temporal and the materialistic as the dominant force in the American experience? Dr. Clarence Carson pointed out that the foundations of American constitutionalism, as well as the Constitution, were philosophical, historical, traditional, rationalistic, and carried with them a substrata of religious sanctions. Even minimal study into the history of our country by any average thinking individual will prove this to be absolutely true. Our founders did draw extensively from the Judeo-Christian writings and beliefs. One of this belief ’s greatest insights was that man, not only exists on a plane above all of the creatures, but that he is distinct from all other animals intellectually and spiritually. It was a constitutionalism deeply planted in the natural law tradition and which contained over 2,000 years of the best of political thought. Natural law, which upholds our Constitution, is profoundly based on the metaphysical level of thought. Knowledge of the physical comes to us by the senses; the metaphysical, on the other hand, comes to us by way of reason, and the spiritual by way of faith, or revelation. However, the belief in the metaphysical (reason) was supplanted and the foundations of constitutionalism were undermined in the course of the 19th century. Utilitarianism began to attack the very concept of natural law. “Natural rights is simple nonsense,” they would say. Their belief was in “the greatest good for the greatest number.” These thinkers argued that the law was not to admit mystical entities like rights, natural, popular, or divine and absolutely no revelations from God. This onslaught of new thinking permeated this period. Natural law, so far as it dealt with a fixed order in the universe, lost its appeal. Is it any wonder that all of this eventually paved the way for today’s unlimited government by the people? It was only a small jump for power, force and might to move to center stage in the political arena in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “Might makes right” became the new mantra and all policies were based on power rather than upon rights or ideals. What we must not forget is that many of those who worked to undermine constitutionalism were not themselves disinterested parties. They were, in fact, interested in reducing the extent to which the United States Constitution was an obstacle to change, reform and eventually the establishment of socialism. Once we can see the progression of our social, political and economic environment in this context, the enemy becomes apparent and our intellectual battle more determined. They have reduced us to a remnant, but they have not completely extinguished us. In this small minority, the flame of liberty still burns bright. Yours very truly, Carlos and Bob 4PULSELMR FEBRUARY 2011 ON THE MARKET Recent developments that may be of interest to readers of the Lara-Murphy Report… PULSE ON THE MARKET FEBRUARY 2011 LMR 5 Attacking the Messenger. Well Ron Paul had his first hearing as head of the subcommittee on monetary policy. The official subject was the connection between Fed policies and unemployment. His witnesses were Thomas DiLorenzo and Richard Vedder, who both testified that the Fed exacerbates business cycles and leads to higher unemployment than Calling Name would occur with private money and banking. The primary response from Rep. William Lacy Clay (a Democrat from St. Louis) was that DiLorenzo, as an Austrian economist, subscribed to an obsolete and unscientific school of thought. He also linked DiLorenzo to a “hate group” (his words), namely the League of the South. DiLorenzo’s work on Abraham Lincoln was the main focus of the resulting discussion among economists and policy wonks in the blogosphere.
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