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Just a view of getting ready for a good day walking and playing outside!

Who is WuliRider?!

I always liked A. Einsteins “thought experiment” –or what I remember it being called–concerning ‘what would it be like to ride on a light beam just turned on? From that idea he imagined the basics of relativity.

So, for me, after reading WuliMaster, an early book  on physics and Eastern philosophy, I created the word to capture the same idea, but in my mind, what would it be like to ride any of the lines or waves of electricity, magnetic, nuclear (strong or weak) forces that are continuously formed, in all aspects or levels of the universe. Now, it has become my handle, has been with me for decades and is my own word.

Just something  I hold on to and use. But, who am I?  I am worked in international development for three decades, have become a strong advocate, believer and live by the code of individual freedom, liberty and respect for others.

And I agree with the old Chinese adage, “...your freedom to act stops at the tip of my sword.”

Yes, Live and let Live, is my guiding motto, for you and for me. I am a student of Austrian economics and support freedom and liberty for individuals and enlightened communities living in freedom, doing no harm to others.

I am a student of Carl Jung, whose ideas and writings subsume the theme of individuation. Given that the world has moved toward ever greater group rights and socialistic behavior, the use of force and coercion,

I am a student of Austrian Economics, Ludwig von Mise’s writings,, especially Human Action, is my favorite book on economics.  I am reading and will become a growing student of Murray Rothbard, recently deceased economics, who represents the finest thinking in the field and whose books are a delight in-depth of understanding and a joy to read.

I am an outcast, truly a Remnant, a la A.J. Nock. In these pages, I will share with you, thoughts, ideas and themes for finding freedom, living free and often link you to the best of the web for moving toward living free, without living off others.  Having read many of the  great writers in the field, I will not try to do what they have done: written the best on freedom and liberty, the history of it, and the philosophy of it.

Best

WuliRider

Guiding Principles:
o  Do harm to no one
o  Take from none his own
o  Gold is coined freedom
o  ‘Right to Carry’ puts teeth in freedom & liberty

It’s time for a little civil disobedience against illegal laws & those who promote them:  Liberty Begins Locally!!!!

0 Walk on the grass 0 Buy unregistered firearms

0 Buy produce from local farmers, with cash

0 Watch for “agent provocateurs”

0 Practice liberty until it becomes a habit

0 Smoke some grass

0 Paint-ball red light cameras!

0 Practice jury nullification

0 Barter, trade, buy second-hand, to avoid state. liquor & income taxes

0 Stop voting in national elections

0 Vote locally for less government, less taxes, less regulation

0 Practice self help health

0 Don’t get vaccinated!  Take Vitamin D3!

0 Pay cash, stop using credit cards

Learning Economics for Today’s world and Tomorrow’s Meltldown!

Study Business-Cycle Theory Online with an Austrian Economist

Mises Daily: Friday, April 02, 2010 by Robert P. Murphy

Ever since the fall of 2008, interest in the Austrian theory of the business cycle has exploded. Judging from the email I receive after a Mises Daily article, or the type of people who go to a Mises Circle event, I can personally attest that it’s not just ideological students and college professors anymore. On the contrary, actual financial professionals — people with “real jobs” with real money on the line — are waking up to the fact that the guys on CNBC don’t know what they’re talking about.

These professionals have been intrigued by the public statements of people like Peter Schiff and Ron Paul, and many of them may have purchased Tom Woods’s bestseller Meltdown. Yet they want more.

Unfortunately, diving headlong into the work of Mises, or even Rothbard, can be very intimidating, especially for someone who just stumbled upon Austrian economics within the last few years. Many people want to learn more, but they need a guide.

As in so many other areas, here too the Mises Institute comes to the rescue. The newly unveiled Mises Academy is the online university for Austrian scholarship. I am very excited to be teaching the inaugural class, “Understanding the Business Cycle,” beginning Monday, April 12.

Outline of the Course

The course is nine weeks long. There are no prerequisites, either in mathematics or economics, for someone to take this class. In the beginning we will cover the basics of the Austrian School of economics, and give a general overview of the Austrian explanation of business cycles. We will then study in depth the Austrian approaches to capital and interest, and to money and banking.

Once we have these building blocks mastered, we will study how genuine savings leads to a sustainable increase in the productive capacity of the economy. As Hayek said, “Before we can meaningfully ask what might go wrong, we should first understand how things could ever go right.”

In week 6 of the course, we will finally be ready to explore the Mises-Hayek theory of the business cycle, where the central bank causes an unsustainable boom through its “easy-credit” policies. The unsustainable boom paves the way for a bust, when workers and other resources must be reallocated from their boom-time niches and into more appropriate sectors.

In the remaining three weeks of the course, we will survey other popular theories of the business cycle, as well as entertain some of the leading objections to the Austrian explanation. We will also cover Roger Garrison’s graphical presentation of the Hayekian story, and we will apply the Austrian theory to major historical episodes.

For far more details on the syllabus, as well as the weekly breakdown of lectures, discussion topics, and quizzes, please see this description.

Classroom of the Future

In preparation for the course, Grayson Lilburne and I have been testing out the software. It is amazing. Here is a screenshot:

During each week’s main lecture, the students will be able to see me through a live video and audio connection, while following along with my PowerPoint presentation. All the while, students can type in questions in a chat room format that I can see while I’m talking.

We have all known for years that, one day, we would transcend physical conferences such as Mises University, and hold in-depth instruction over the Internet. Up till now, the software was never adequate to do it right. At long last, the wait is over.

Conclusion

We are thrilled to open the Mises Academy, not just for this course but for all the future ones it will host. For those readers who have always wanted a guided tour of Austrian business-cycle theory, you now have that option — all from the comfort of your home computer.

In closing, let me anticipate one of the most frequently asked questions: Currently, the Mises Institute is not officially accredited. However, those who desire to do so can take a final exam and have the results posted online. In this way, economics majors can receive extra credit from professors friendly to the Mises Institute, and finance professionals can curry favor with their bosses if they are fans of the Austrian School.

Even if you aren’t interested in Austrian business-cycle theory, I urge you to click the link and see the possibilities. The launch of the Mises Academy may come to represent a major turning point in the public’s understanding of sound economics.

We have selected the business cycle as our first course not only because of its popularity, but also because of its relevance: If I had been asked a few years ago to design a scheme for the slow but thorough crippling of the US economy, it would be hard to top what Bernanke & Co. have done.

If I’m right, though, you shouldn’t just take my word for it, or the word of Ron Paul and other Austrians. In order to focus his own efforts on setting up the Mises Academy, Grayson Lilburne assembled passages of Mises’s that articulate what he calls the Misesian Injunction, some of which I excerpt here:

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.

If you are willing to devote $255 and nine weeks of your time, I promise that you will emerge from the course with a much better understanding of why so many Austrian economists are very pessimistic about the future. You will have more clarity in the conduct of your personal finances, and you will have more confidence when you discuss these important issues with your friends and relatives.

So check out the details and think it over. I hope to see you in class!

Robert Murphy, an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and a faculty member of the Mises University, runs the blog Free Advice and is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, the Study Guide to Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, the Human Action Study Guide, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal. Send him mail. See Robert P. Murphy’s article archives.

Hello world!

Hello Family, Friends and Any NewComers;

I hope to use this to find My Way.  Tis late in the day for me, in my seventh decade, but this is my day today!  I shall use this forum, this Blog to share my ideas, reflections and hopes for the new paradigm coming.

What paradigm, you ask?  Economically speaking, and politically astute individuals will note, that the Ying/Yang of Freedom versus Government involvement in our lives has reached a ‘Turning Point.’  Massive intrusion by government at all levels of our lives in the 50 States, the last bastion of individual thinking, has been usurped by the vastness of the Internet as the Land of the Free.  Either way,  Americans are about to revolt, regress or refuse any further intrusions and States and locations within States will move toward freedom with an increasing rush as the economy turns ever more sour, spiraling into hyper-inflation, hard economic times and, mainly in the cities, harsh, marshal-ordered existence.

Learning with great awareness how to live free and be free, will be the goal of many a Remnant, those few who seek to live their own lives in communities and areas where Life and Let Let survive.

My thoughts for the day!!