Author Archives: Peter J. de Marigny

Today’s Thomas Jefferson of Enterprise: Charles Koch

The main problem of the people of the United States is a lack of understanding of the path – a path taken by FDR that bought stability at the cost of growth that continued from 1929’s crash to 1959, the time period it took for the market to recover!  The people are not well informed because they are buying what […]

Short Interest Days Into Dilution Solution

The SEC has come out with permanent rules to solve the problem caused by naked short selling.  The pivotal problem is the exploitative danger of manipulation of volatility and resulting down spiral. The problem with regulatory approaches is a preference to add patches onto a bad system instead of re-engineering the whole system (for instance, The Federal Reserve System).  The […]

deMarigny: Taleb Almost Has Solution Right

In today’s article: “Taleb offers a universal solution to our ills” (Published July 14, 2009 at 10:46 AM “THE DEAL”) Prof. Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” a book about the likelihood of outlier events otherwise believed to be improbable, profers a solution to the current debt and liquidity malaise.  He says to make a mandatory conversion of all public […]

deMarigny: Green Is NOT the National Color

The problem facing the United States today is NOT money, it is confidence.  Now, Pres. Obama, Congress, and Wall Street may be lulled into the uninspired paradigm that GREEN is the answer: Throw money into the banking system, infrastructure, bailouts, … but this is NOT the answer.  There is no balance that may be regained between monetary and fiscal policies […]

Dollar Death Spiral Is Bad News, Good News

As reported today, Paul C. Volcker, former Fed Chairman, is the single most important man in the world to the future worldwide economy (see www.village.albourne.com search “ditmo” article “Defining the Obama Presidency: Single World Currency”). Mr. Volcker is long a proponent of single world currency that requires a World Central Bank.  To do that we need to overturn the Federal […]