John Dent
Let us summarise what socialism stands for. Looking after the less fortunate in society with money from the more fortunate...
Athens has a unique way of dealing with stray dogs which cities around the world could learn from. (more…)
No wait that's not right, the Bank of England wants to print 75billion pounds and give it to private banks...
How can Greece be forced to do such extreme measures for the sake of "cantagion". The answer is that the...
A Greek default is almost inevitable. Employment is falling and GDP is shrinking and things are only going to get...
Reading newspaper websites it seems like a lot of Germans and British have a superior attitude to Greece. Like they...
Just because the threat of violence stops people from rebelling violently does not make the threats any less violent. Make...
"A democratic government acting in the best interests of private corporations even if these actions are in direct contradiction to...
Greece sinks deeper into fascism with the latest law passed yesterday. If there was any doubt among Greek that they...
First of all let me summarise some of the key points as given by the Greek media and Greek politicians...
So the Greek parliament has passed the law which allows the public owned power company to collect an "emergency property...
The Greek public sector employs 800,000 people and yet the Greek government deficit is a massive 2billion euros a month....
It is very simple to explain why taxes and so called environmentally friendly products kill the environment. Imagine you have...
If was not obvious enough, the Former Assistant Secretary of USA Treasury and Former Editor of The Wall Street Journal,...
1. The key to the Troika (IMF, EU and World Bank) plan is to bring the government deficit down to...
The Scotish newspaper the Scotsman came out with an interesting article quoting Venizelos. (more…)
The current PASOK government are carrying out 2 main actions to get the Greek government books under control. They are...
The bail out was orginally given to Greece to allow the PASOK government to reduce the government deficit. That was...
Forget about the bail outs, forget about Greece's next tranche of bail out cash from the Troika. Even if the...
Mn this lesson I build on the concept of Marginal Utility and introduce the concept of Producer Goods, Marginal Productivity,...
1. VAT Increases The less you earn the greater proportion of your earning you spend every month. The less you...
It was announced that the Greek economy shrank by almost 7% in the first half of 2011 yet the government...
Live news coverage and video streaming of Greek riots in Thessaloniki 10.9.11 Thessaloniki is Greece's second largest city with just...
Obama wants to spend 370 billion dollars to create jobs. Obviously that is great. Nobody can argue that the aim...
That the demolition is a complete joke. The demolition industry has been conning businesses and governments for years with their...
Mn this lesson I teach what the Praxeological notion of utility is, how acting man chooses on the margin and...
An independent panel of finance experts have said, that despite government efforts to reduce the government deficit the problem has...
An article in Ekathimerini today is typical of the type of government propaganda that is wide spread in the Greek...
As a sign of the corrupt times we are living in and if it could not be more obvious that...
It is official, democracy has left the building in Greece. The Greek government is now arbitrarily introducing random taxes on...
While it is published in the mainstream media that Tripoli has been "liberated" the whole situation asks bigger questions. (more…)
Mn this lesson I talk about the uncertainty inherent in human action.
A new phase of highly volatile markets is bringing along a lot of more opportunities. On the other side we...
This is what ex Nymex traders believe according to the book "The Asylum" by Leah McGrath Goodman From 13mins 40seconds...
Mn this lesson I explain the importance of time in understanding action and it's implications. Time is the concept that...
The English Government takes no responsibility for the riots. Yet when crime figures fall that want to take all the...
Papandreou's Agenda Papandreou has made every Greek citizen in Greece a slave of the international bankers and for what? For...
One thing that is becoming clear is that the general consensus is that the riots are not politicially motivated and...
People are saying the police have their hands tied, they are dammed if they do dammed if they don't. But...
S&P's downgrade came as a surprise, but indeed is nothing less than expected.
Athens News carries an interesting Article today covering a radio interview the Greek justice minister has given on Athens Radio...
Greek government implies one thing and that says something else. Athens News today A statement by Sata President Thymios Lymberopoulos...
Mn this episode I explain how Praxeology determines an actor's scale of values (preference).
It is high time that legislation was introduced to regulate the Internet that will impose on these so-called news media...
So this is what the Athens mayor thinks the Indignants are doing. Maybe he should go down to the square...
The German finance minister is quoted as saying. What does he base this on? (more…)
ekathimerini.com has come out today and said the Greek government is proactively cooking the books to make the economic situation...
I have criticised the Greek central bank governor before for his comments but today's quote in Athens News was the...
Although it is not completely clear the situation as per ekathimerini.com seems that the Greek state is softening it's stance...
So many different views from so many different people on the issue of the taxi strike. Let me start with...
Mn this lesson, I elaborate on what Ends and Means are, and speak more on what the core of what...
The Greek government has treated a group of Greek citizens unfairly. The Greek citizens protest. The Greek government then says...
The tatic employed by the taxi drivers seems to be rolling convoys of taxis which do not completely block the...
So the taxi drivers in Greece have been on strike for the past 2 days and no person in the...
I thought I would put a page together that linked to a variety of pages on Facebook that are related...
I have written before about Venizelos taking Newspeak to new levels. Today he is quote with this absolute peach Our...
Mn this lesson I make the case for why all action is necessarily rational.
http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=215060168526976 Funded by outsiders?
Today Athens News carries a headline Venizelos: 'No danger of default'. Yet in the same article it quotes Venizelos as...
I had the pleasure of speaking to an accountant who is working in Greece at the moment and I asked...
The BBC has a nice article regarding the parallels between the Argentinian crisis and the current Greek problems (more…)
I have said before how Venizelos the Greek finance minister is living is his own fantasy land and today Athens...
Despite threats by the Athens council that the "indignants" should be forcefully removed from Syntagma Square by police, protestors from...
Something that has been said over and over again. When a government increases taxes it's revenues actually decrease and so...
People and businesses have for years been taken advantage of by so called "experts" in the field of building demolition....
Can you think of another industry where all the players have made the same mistakes at the same time to...
Mn this lesson, I lay out the logically necessary requirements for any human action.
It was televised live on several national telveison networks. Greece was the victim of an economic coup d'etat and there...
Yhis is a short wrap-up on the history and motivation of my youtube actitivies.
See, in Greece they're fast losing their freedom and independence. The country may still be a sovereign nation in name,...
Probably the most ironic headline I have written. And it is not for effect, this is actually what Christos Papoutsis,...
To echo what I have been saying for many weeks, politicians have been saying that the protests in Athens which...
When I say turd I refer to the government beauracracy. Possibly a bit strong but that is what it is....
Athens News reports that Venizelos is "confident" that Greece will return to the financial markets in 2014. Again I ask,...
Alexandros Athanassiadis has said he was effectively black mailed into voting for the bail out of Greece. He was against...
To anyone that was whatching the live video streams of the Greek protests in Athens the completely out of control...