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- Water Powered Cars and Zero Point Energy
- Psychiatrist Visit
- Reader Mail #30
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- A List of Harmful Drugs I've Been Given
- More Disease Thoughts
- Illness Details
- I Was Sick Again.
- The Real Nazi Threat
- The Debate Ceiling Scam
- Reader Mail #28
- FSK's Stock Investing Philosophy
- The Monetizing the Debt Scam
- The Ultimate Seduction Technique!
- FSK Asks - Should I Try Podcasting or Vlogging?
- Reader Mail #27 - Free Bill Stickers!
- Oops - Double Posted
- Communism Defeated the Free Market, 192-0
- Nepotism Capitalism
- General Blogging Thoughts
- The Ethanol Scam
- Bring Back Gold Clauses!
- Reader Mail #26
- How to Run a Successful Hedge Fund
- The Gold CD Scam
- Hyperinflation - Could it Happen in the USA?
- Reader Mail #25 - Pro-State Trolling
- A Commodity Price Volatility Calculation
- FSK Asks - Digg the Market Anarchist Blog Carnival...
- The Fallacy of LETS
- Megan McArdle Trolls the Gold Standard
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The Best of FSK
As of September 30, 2011, according to Google Analytics, my top 184 posts by unique pageviews are:
- Who's the Richest Man in the World? (13,864)
- The Compound Interest Paradox (11,048)
- Did the USA Declare Bankruptcy? (9,099)
- The Hunt Brothers' Silver Corner (9,046)
- The Federal Reserve Caused the Great Depression (7,080)
- Ruby on Rails Sucks! (6,774)
- The Gold Lease Rate is Negative! (4,878)
- Agorist Philosophy Overview (4,368)
- The Monetizing the Debt Scam (4,269)
- The Amero Subterfuge (3,701)
- BMI/ASCAP/SESAC Legal Extortion Scam (3,602)
- Calculating Vega and other Greeks in Black-Scholes (3,516)
- The Five Levels of the Economy (3,421)
- Real GDP is Decreasing, 1990-2007 (3,276)
- Real GDP is Decreasing, 1990-2008 (3,005)
- The Communist Manifesto's Successful Implementation in the USA (2,956)
- The Gold and Silver Taxation Scam (2,915)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 1/12 - Overview and Background (2,715)
- The Fluoride Conspiracy Theory (2,607)
- Real GDP Growth Has Been Negligible Since 1990 (2,498)
- Worldwide Hyperinflation Race (2,355)
- The Compound Interest Paradox - a Simpler Explanation (2,326)
- Gold and Silver Buyer's Guide (2,286)
- Water Powered Cars and Zero Point Energy (2,261)
- StackOverflow Sucks! (2,198)
- The Federal Reserve and Income Tax Conspiracy Theory (2,176)
- How Much did the AIG Bailout Cost You? (2,092)
- Satanic Death Hospitals (2,038)
- Premium Text Messaging Fraud - 91097 and 654654 (1,972)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 3/12 - Formula Derivation (1,928)
- The Pat Tillman Conspiracy Theory (1,861)
- Do Aliens Exist? (1,697)
- Groupon Is A Scam (1,687)
- Your Strawman Corporation (1,666)
- The Strawman Fallacy (1,640)
- Gold and Silver Price Manipulation (1,622)
- Is It Worth Hoarding Nickels? (1,595)
- Athletes vs. Doctors, Which is Overpaid? (1,551)
- Easily Import Excel and CSV Files Into Blogger! (1,481)
- The Velocity of Money (1,481)
- Is Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair Photo Child Pornography? (1,479)
- Is Gold/Money a Better Investment than Stocks? (1,432)
- A Commodity Price Volatility Calculation (1,375)
- The Discounted Cashflow Paradox (aka The St. Petersburg Paradox) (1,364)
- The Voting Scam (1,334)
- Are College Athletes Exploited? (1,332)
- The Social Credit Monetary System (1,312)
- The Compound Interest Paradox Revisited - Edward Flaherty is a Troll (1,299)
- The Nymphomaniac Pattern (1,280)
- The Liberty Dollar Scam (1,212)
- The Transistor, UFO, and WMD Conspiracy Theory (1,201)
- The Liberty Dollar Scam Continues! (1,193)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 4/12 - The Put/Call Parity Formula (1,182)
- Is Prostitution a Crime? (1,176)
- The Tally Stick Monetary System (1,160)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 2/12 - Axioms (1,153)
- How Well Does GLD Track Gold? (1,143)
- Silk Road Was A Partial AgoristBay Implementation (1,130)
- Money Supply Statistics Explained (1,077)
- Verizon LG enV Touch, Bitpim, and Open Source (1,056)
- Idiot Manager Tactics (1,055)
- Real GDP Is Crashing, 2000-2009 (1,029)
- The Subprime Mortgage Lending Scam (1,026)
- How Much did the Bear Stearns Bailout Cost you? (1,010)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 8/12 - The Kelly Criterion (1,002)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 12/12 - Summary (996)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 5/12 - The Volatility Smile (952)
- Gold Outperformed the S&P 500, 1997-2008 (925)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 9/12 - How FSK Trades Options (916)
- Are the GLD and SLV ETFs a Fraud? (899)
- Ron Paul Doublecross Prediction (864)
- The National Debt - Who is the Creditor? (837)
- A List of Harmful Drugs I've Been Given (829)
- The "Low Unemployment Causes Inflation" Fallacy (828)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 6/12 - The Contradiction (826)
- Ron Paul Forums and Paid Disinformation Agents (773)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 10/12 - Only Fools and Hedge Funds Write Covered Calls (772)
- Federal Reserve Work Permission Points (748)
- Relativity Fnord (739)
- The Defect of Intrade (736)
- Car Insurance vs. Health Insurance (730)
- Goldman Sachs and Facebook (711)
- The CPI is Biased (701)
- The Compound Interest Paradox Revisited - Examples (697)
- Bear Stearns Bailout Details (686)
- The Closed Shop Scam (679)
- The True Purpose of the Federal Reserve (664)
- Discharging a Debt vs. Paying a Debt (664)
- Wiener's Wiener (659)
- The Bitcoin Conspiracy Theory (657)
- Does Michael J. Fox Have Tardive Dyskinesia? (639)
- The Level 3 Assets Scam (628)
- Turd in the Punchbowl! (617)
- Warren Buffet and the Discounted Cashflow Paradox (608)
- Has Humanity Split Into Two Sub-Species? (603)
- Birth Certificates, Social Security Cards, and Adhesion Contracts (592)
- The Compound Interest Paradox Revisited - The Federal Reserve (587)
- Incentive Stock Options and Startups (574)
- What are Fnords? (567)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 7/12 - Resolving the Contradiction (564)
- Stefan Molyneux is a Murderer! (564)
- The Compound Interest Paradox Revisited - Summary (555)
- Bernard Madoff, a Typical Hedge Fund Manager (552)
- False Opposites (535)
- How the State Destroys Small Businesses (526)
- Ron Paul, The Federal Reserve, and the Gold Standard (526)
- The Yield Curve (500)
- Criticisms of Stefan Molyneux (500)
- Analysis of UAW and GM Contract (496)
- Is a Gold Short Squeeze Coming? (494)
- Oligopolies Exploit People More Efficiently than Monopolies (493)
- The 14th Amendment Legalized Slavery (488)
- Robert Kahre vs. Terrorism (488)
- Reader Mail #65 - Dealing With Scum (482)
- Reader Mail #73 (480)
- What Exactly is Obama's Healthcare Reform Proposal? (476)
- Evidence of a Massive Conspiracy (471)
- Agorist Toolkit - Tax Resister Insurance (467)
- What are Credit Default Swaps? (466)
- Is Pro Se Defense a Good Idea? (456)
- The Fallacy of Suing the Government (451)
- Is Silver a Good Buy Right Now? (450)
- The Remnant (441)
- Protect Your Giold and Silver Coins! (438)
- The Rice Shortage (430)
- Where Did $700 Billion Go? (426)
- The Gold Lease Rate is Negative Again! (426)
- Lotus Notes Sucks! (423)
- The Incredible Shrinking Economy! (422)
- FRE and FNM Bailout Details (419)
- Ticketmaster Monopoly (414)
- How Collateralized Debt Obligations Work (409)
- Stanford Bank Fraud (407)
- The Labor Theory of Theft (403)
- Anarcho-Captialism, Agorism, and Fasco-Capitalism (399)
- American Eagle Gold Coins Sales Suspended (395)
- Programming Ruby on Rails is like Playing Mao or Mornington Crescent (392)
- My Brain is Sore! (392)
- Dutch Auction IPOs (389)
- The Spread Trade Scam (385)
- Five Ideas You Can't Say on Television (378)
- Was Jett Travola Murdered? (378)
- My Personal Journey Towards the Truth (377)
- Interesting Quote (375)
- The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (374)
- Predator/State vs. Prey/Agorist (373)
- Beware of Libertarian Red Market Agents (371)
- The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 11/12 - Other Options (364)
- TBA Mortgage Bonds (362)
- Google Disabled my AdSense Account! (359)
- Bear Stearns Takeover (357)
- The Fallacy of "Tax Protester Fallacies" (353)
- The Federal Reserve Term Auction Facility (352)
- The Ultimate Seduction Technique! (350)
- Why is the Unemployment Rate so High? (350)
- Nazi Social Contract (348)
- The Compound Interest Paradox Revisited - Overview (347)
- Distributed Costs and Concentrated Benefits (339)
- "Excessive" Oil Corporation Profits Explained (339)
- Sui Juris Representation (329)
- The Defect of Schools (327)
- Reader Mail #1 - The Federal Reserve Still Sucks (324)
- The Grand Conspiracy Experiment (322)
- Michael Savage, Autism, and Paid Disinformation Agents (322)
- Answers to Common Pro-State Troll Criticisms of "Taxation is Theft" (321)
- Repo 105 (320)
- The BitTorrent Economy (319)
- Is the Swine Flu Vaccine Harmful? (318)
- Real Annual Income is Decreasing (317)
- Why Chatroulette Failed (317)
- Corporate Death Penalty (316)
- The Problem With Ithaca Hours (310)
- Jared Lee Loughner (309)
- When Will The Federal Reserve Raise Interest Rates? (303)
- "Taboo Your Words" - From Overcoming Bias (302)
- Bernard von NotHaus Was Arrested (300)
- Righthaven vs. Charles Johnson (RadGeek) (298)
- Death Note and Code Geass Fnords (297)
- Is Kohl's Headed for Bankruptcy? (297)
- Quantitative Easing 2 (297)
- Jefferson County, Alabama May Declare Bankruptcy (294)
- Standing Up for a Judge (292)
- The Stubborn Clueless Fool Fallacy (291)
- The Social Security Ponzi Scam (290)
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About Me
FSK"s Shared Items
My Favorite Links
Here is a collection of my favorite links.
Personal Finance
For personal finance, my most frequently visited site is Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance has the best system for watching your stock quotes during the day. I also like the Motley Fool. Both of these websites encourage you to do independent thinking about finance.
Independent thinking about finance led me to discover the Discounted Cashflow Paradox and the Compound Interest Paradox. I realized the fundamental structural flaws in the monetary system and taxation system.
My favorite discount online broker is Vanguard. They are not the cheapest commission-wise, but their customer service has been excellent. Plus, they give a high credit interest rate on the cash portion of your account.
Mises, Rothbard, and Austrian Economics
The school of "Austrian Economics" advocates credit-based money instead of debt-based money. There are two separate websites, www.mises.org and www.mises.net. These philosophies are a precursor to agorism. However, they still hold out false hope that the people who control the government can be convinced to switch to a fair monetary system. They fall short of the correct conclusion that government itself is the problem.
The Mises and Austrian school is still a pro-State theory of economics. They say "government should adopt a sound monetary policy instead of an unsound monetary policy". They fall short of the truth, which is "Who needs a government?"
Agorism and Anarcho-Capitalism
The primary source most commonly cited is agorism.info. Agorism.info has good introductory material, but I'm already looking for more advanced topics. I also found TOLFA interesting. The Molinari Institute has a lot of interesting links.
The source with the most advanced material on agorism is Kevin Carson's The Mutualist Blog.
The Philosophy of Liberty flash animation is interesting.
The agorism websites is seem to be mostly philosophizing and speculating. I'm at the point where I'm ready to start trading and I'm looking for trading partners.
Here is an interesting article on a stable anarchistic society in Iceland 1000 years ago. Paradoxically, it failed due to being not anarchistic enough. The libertarian.org site has a bunch of other examples of stable anarchistic societies.
The Federal Reserve
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins is worth reading. I think it shares a lot with "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by Edward Griffin, which I have not read.
"America: Freedom to Fascism" is worth watching. You can get it on YouTube or from BitTorrent. A lot of people say "The Money Masters" is worth watching, but I have not watched it yet.
Here is a webpage that features M3 reconstructed. Here is the official Federal Reserve value for M2.
This series of videos on YouTube is a pretty good explanation of the Compound Interest Paradox and the flaws of the current monetary system.
The History of Money
I Want the Earth Plus 5% is a nice story about banking and the Compound Interest Paradox.
The Money Myth Exploded by Louis Even is interesting.
This link on the History of Money has a lot of interesting bits on how bankers have controlled the world's money supply for hundreds of years or longer. Unlike most other sources, it is very short and to the point. However, their recommended solution falls short of true agorism.
Other Interesting Links
Barefoot's World has a lot of interesting content.
Technorati has a nice service where it shows other people who are linking to your blog.
The Jargon File is worth browsing occasionally.
Things I'm Reading Now
These are websites that I'm currently reading. I haven't finished them completely, but find them interesting.
I've been reading Dr. Antal E. Fekete's stories on the history of money and economics. His articles are on a website that promotes purchasing gold coins.
I've been reading the Libertarian Nation Archive. They also have a good collection of articles.
I'm reading "The Modern History Project".
Personal Finance
For personal finance, my most frequently visited site is Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance has the best system for watching your stock quotes during the day. I also like the Motley Fool. Both of these websites encourage you to do independent thinking about finance.
Independent thinking about finance led me to discover the Discounted Cashflow Paradox and the Compound Interest Paradox. I realized the fundamental structural flaws in the monetary system and taxation system.
My favorite discount online broker is Vanguard. They are not the cheapest commission-wise, but their customer service has been excellent. Plus, they give a high credit interest rate on the cash portion of your account.
Mises, Rothbard, and Austrian Economics
The school of "Austrian Economics" advocates credit-based money instead of debt-based money. There are two separate websites, www.mises.org and www.mises.net. These philosophies are a precursor to agorism. However, they still hold out false hope that the people who control the government can be convinced to switch to a fair monetary system. They fall short of the correct conclusion that government itself is the problem.
The Mises and Austrian school is still a pro-State theory of economics. They say "government should adopt a sound monetary policy instead of an unsound monetary policy". They fall short of the truth, which is "Who needs a government?"
Agorism and Anarcho-Capitalism
The primary source most commonly cited is agorism.info. Agorism.info has good introductory material, but I'm already looking for more advanced topics. I also found TOLFA interesting. The Molinari Institute has a lot of interesting links.
The source with the most advanced material on agorism is Kevin Carson's The Mutualist Blog.
The Philosophy of Liberty flash animation is interesting.
The agorism websites is seem to be mostly philosophizing and speculating. I'm at the point where I'm ready to start trading and I'm looking for trading partners.
Here is an interesting article on a stable anarchistic society in Iceland 1000 years ago. Paradoxically, it failed due to being not anarchistic enough. The libertarian.org site has a bunch of other examples of stable anarchistic societies.
The Federal Reserve
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins is worth reading. I think it shares a lot with "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by Edward Griffin, which I have not read.
"America: Freedom to Fascism" is worth watching. You can get it on YouTube or from BitTorrent. A lot of people say "The Money Masters" is worth watching, but I have not watched it yet.
Here is a webpage that features M3 reconstructed. Here is the official Federal Reserve value for M2.
This series of videos on YouTube is a pretty good explanation of the Compound Interest Paradox and the flaws of the current monetary system.
The History of Money
I Want the Earth Plus 5% is a nice story about banking and the Compound Interest Paradox.
The Money Myth Exploded by Louis Even is interesting.
This link on the History of Money has a lot of interesting bits on how bankers have controlled the world's money supply for hundreds of years or longer. Unlike most other sources, it is very short and to the point. However, their recommended solution falls short of true agorism.
Other Interesting Links
Barefoot's World has a lot of interesting content.
Technorati has a nice service where it shows other people who are linking to your blog.
The Jargon File is worth browsing occasionally.
Things I'm Reading Now
These are websites that I'm currently reading. I haven't finished them completely, but find them interesting.
I've been reading Dr. Antal E. Fekete's stories on the history of money and economics. His articles are on a website that promotes purchasing gold coins.
I've been reading the Libertarian Nation Archive. They also have a good collection of articles.
I'm reading "The Modern History Project".
Blog and Forum Hitlist
I saw this on someone else's blog, and I think it's a great idea to help me and others keep track of interesting blogs.
Blogs I Read Regularly
These are blogs I read regularly. I also include other favorite websites that offer an RSS feed.
I like reading feed aggregator sites, because they highlight other blogs worth reading.
There are blogs I'm currently evaluating to see if they're worth a regular read. I currently manage my hitlist through Google Reader.
Honorable Mention
These blogs have some interesting content, but they don't make it into my regular reading rotation. If they improved their content or improved their posting frequency, then they would be in my regular reading list. I check back occasionally, and on a slow day I might read them.
In Google Reader, I keep a subscription to my rejects, just so I don't accidentally add them again as new subscriptions! I just click on "mark all as read" to clean them out.
Discussion Forum Hitlist
I also decided to add Internet Discussion Forums to my hitlist.
Forums I Read Regularly
I don't currently regularly read any discussion forums. I find Google Reader to be a better information source. A good blog has a *MUCH* higher signal-to-noise ratio than a discussion forum.
Lately, I've been actively posting on mises.org. They have a decent number of intelligent posters in addition to the usual pro-State trolls.
Honorable Mention
These forums are worth an occasional visit, but not worth a daily visit.
Forums on my Hitlist
I'm trying to evaluate if these forums are worth a regular visit.
Blogs I Read Regularly
These are blogs I read regularly. I also include other favorite websites that offer an RSS feed.
- The Agitator
- BradSpangler.com - This has a lot of frequent updates. He has a lot on agorism and counter-economics, but he sometimes gets distracted with irrelevant stuff like voting and protesting.
- Dilbert has an RSS feed.
- Francois Tremblay's Check Your Premises - Another good blog, with frequent high-quality updates. He also runs the Market Anarchist Blog Carnival, which I have decided to start participating in regularly. All you have to do is submit a link to one of your blog posts.
- Freedomain is another good read. He doesn't update his blog often, but he has a lot of good stuff posted in the past.
- Kevin Carson's Mutualist Blog - This is a great source. He is tough to read at times, but his content is great. He's the best source on agorism I've seen. I like to take his topics and present them in simpler language. He updates his blog sporadically, but he has a lot of great content. It's also worth reading his other books and articles, which are available from his mutualist.org website. I also like the way Kevin Carson frequently links back to his favorite older posts. Kevin Carson's Shared Items is also worth reading; it's a list of posts from other blogs that he finds interesting.
- Kung-Fu Monkey. This blog is written by someone who works as a writer in the entertainment industry, which explains the high quality of writing. He sounds like a closet agorist, although he hasn't specifically mentioned that philosophy. This post on the Extrapolated Everyday Bull**** Comparison has promoted Kung-Fu Monkey from my hitlist to my "read regularly" list.
- The Liberty Papers has a lot of interesting content.
- Megatokyo has an RSS feed. Annoyingly, this is only a partial feed.
- No Third Solution, by David Z
- Overcoming Bias has a lot if interesting discussion of "How to think".
- The Picket Line has a lot of interesting stories about tax resistance.
- rec.humor.funny and rec.humor.funny.reruns, via the Google Groups RSS feed
- Redpillguy's Blog - His blog is relatively new, so it's hard to judge. He doesn't really update his blog that often. On the other hand, he frequently cites my content, and that's certainly the sort of thing I appreciate.
- Techdirt has a lot of interesting technology-related items.
- Tranarchism is another new blog. It's too soon to judge the content. On the other hand, anyone who heavily cites my stuff can't be all bad. It's too infrequently updated.
- Wally Conger's Blog is another good read. However, he really has two separate blogs mixed together. He has a lot of good stuff on agorism and libertarianism. However, he also likes to talk about his favorite movies and TV shows a lot.
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
I like reading feed aggregator sites, because they highlight other blogs worth reading.
- Feedburner's list of Left Libertarian links - Someone has been posting links to my stuff here.
- Kevin Carson's Shared Items
There are blogs I'm currently evaluating to see if they're worth a regular read. I currently manage my hitlist through Google Reader.
Honorable Mention
These blogs have some interesting content, but they don't make it into my regular reading rotation. If they improved their content or improved their posting frequency, then they would be in my regular reading list. I check back occasionally, and on a slow day I might read them.
- Bill Rempel - He talks about finance and trading. He really dislikes the Federal Reserve. I'm not sure if he's come all the way to agorism yet, but perhaps he can be coaxed. He's guilty of my #1 blog pet peeve: A PARTIAL RSS FEED!
- Bored Zhwazi - Has some nice content, but it really isn't updated that often. It's worth checking back once every month or two.
- Life, Love, and Liberty
- Pro Blogger - The idea of profiting from a blog sounds interesting.
In Google Reader, I keep a subscription to my rejects, just so I don't accidentally add them again as new subscriptions! I just click on "mark all as read" to clean them out.
Discussion Forum Hitlist
I also decided to add Internet Discussion Forums to my hitlist.
Forums I Read Regularly
I don't currently regularly read any discussion forums. I find Google Reader to be a better information source. A good blog has a *MUCH* higher signal-to-noise ratio than a discussion forum.
Lately, I've been actively posting on mises.org. They have a decent number of intelligent posters in addition to the usual pro-State trolls.
Honorable Mention
These forums are worth an occasional visit, but not worth a daily visit.
- Ron Paul Freedom Forum - This is the second Ron Paul Forum mentioned in The Ron Paul Discussion Forum Schism. It's a good site overall, but it needs more traffic.
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Forums on my Hitlist
I'm trying to evaluate if these forums are worth a regular visit.
- Elite Trader
- stormfront.org - This is a white nationalist website, but my blog would probably be of interest to many posters.
- The Anarchism.net Forum - Looks promising so far.
- Gold and Silver Forum
- Fight Year Zero
- Ran Prieur has a forum. He also has a blog, but he has NO RSS FEED!
- Joel Skousen's forum. He also has a website (but no blog).
- The Mental Militia
- Hardcore Politics
- anti-state.com
- Free State Project Forum
- Ron Paul Forum - This forum has been overrun by trolls and I've abandoned it.
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It's good to hear from you, I was worried that something had happened. Welcome back!
I was wondering what had happened. Glad to see you're back.
welcome back
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