
06/16/2004 - The Demons Within by John Pugsley "In an early 1960s experiment, Harvard researcher Stanley Milgram recruited college students to help "teach" slow "learners." 04/30/2004 - It All Starts With Property Rights by John Pugsley "The feelings that drive us to defend ourselves against government oppression are an expression of our innate compulsion to control our own property." 04/28/2004 - What Money Really Is -- and Isn't by John Pugsley "Money. From childhood, we desire it, pursue it, use it, save it, invest it and spend our lives agonizing over how to keep what we have, and get more." 04/25/3005 - The First Casualty Of War by John Pugsley "As a student of revisionist history, I'm acutely skeptical of politicians' pronouncements about the reasons for wars. U.S. wars, including the Civil War and World Wars I and II, were fought for reasons other than what the public was told." 01/09/2004 - Minimizing Political Risk - Offshore by John Pugsley "The ideal investment portfolio is designed around a careful evaluation of the economy and interest rates." 10/23/2003 - The Plunge Protection Team: Urban Myth or Real Danger?by John Pugsley "I'm in Buenos Aires again, a city that has seen much turmoil in the past three decades: military dictatorship, multiple hyperinflations, stock market booms and busts, bank closures and today, a devastating depression and massive unemployment." 09/11/2003 - Sorting Trash in Buenos Aires by John Pugsley "At the end of June, the Federal Open Market Committee lowered its target for the federal funds rate to 1%, a 45-year low. Board member Ben Bernake stated that the U.S. central bank would be prepared to cut interest rates all the way to zero if necessary." 01/13/2003 - Calm Before The Storm by John Pugsley "It should go without saying that a serious assessment of the U.S. economy's prospects is only possible if based on a clear understanding of what those structural dislocations and maladjustments are and, above all, to which causes they are attributable." |