Personal website of Pierre Lemieux
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June 20, 2010 – Follow me on Twitter @pierre_lemieux.

June 16, 2010 – A bill tabled by four representatives in the French National Assembly would dismantle many existing gun controls, and make France one of the least illiberal countries in the world. The preamble of the bill is remarkable, even if the practical proposals that follow are milder and inconsistent with the right to keep and bear arms. Yet, the bill is radical in comparison with existing gun controls and philosophy in any country except the U.S. and Switzerland. It probably has few chances of being adopted, but it shows that the debate on the right to keep and bear arms in France is not over. "Contre nous, de la tyrannie..."

June 15, 2010 – My book on authority and the economic crisis will be published by Palgrave in the U.S. later this year. A French adaptation will be published by Les Belles Lettres in Paris. More later.

May 31, 2010 – Sad day for freedom of speech: Facebook has bowed before a 7th-century obscurantist and his contemporary thugs (Globe and Mail, May 31, 2010). It is more important than ever that images of Mohammed be posted on every website, spread to every little corner of the world, shown in every tent and on every wifi-equipped camel, and that the thugs be ridiculed by all lovers of liberty. Here is my humble contribution, reproduced from Mohammed Image Archive.

March 22, 2010 – From his throne in Ottawa (where he leads the Bloc Québécois in the House of Commons), Gilles Duceppe has compared his separatists to the French resisters during the Second World war (Globe and Mail, March 21, 201). Far from being a resister, our Fuhrer Duceppe is a despicable element of the Québec establishment who has conspired with the English Canadian establishment to destroy our traditional liberties over the past few decades.

March 7, 2010 – My apologies for not updating this page very often. I have been busy working on a book and other projects. I hope to be able to soon launch a blog on this site. In the meantime, do not hesitate to join me on Facebook: I use my page there as a sort of blog. You can find me on Facebook with my e-mail address PL(a)pierrelemieux.org. When you befriend me on Facebook, please make sure to mention that you come from www.pierrelemieux.org.

November 12, 2009 – In 2002, Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel economics prize winner and two co-authors (Jonathan Orszag and Peter Orszag), published an article ("Implications of the New Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Risk-based Capital Standard") in Fannie Mae Papers. They argued that Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac’s risk-based capital standard made it very unlikely that the two GSEs (government-sponsored enterprises) would ever require a government bailout. Their results suggested that “the risk to the government from a potential default on GSE debt is effectively zero”, even in “the financial and economic conditions of the Great Depression”. The authors apparently underestimated the possible credit losses from a deep recession, besides ignoring the possibility that the quasi-nationalized housing market and the GSEs could themselves generate a recession. Fannie Mae and presumably the learned authors are not especially proud of this paper, which has disappeared from the GSE’s site; but I have reproduced it on this site.

October 30, 2009 – A young Canadian woman has been attacked and killed by coyotes while hiking. It wouldn't have happened if she had been carrying a pistol. "If it could save only one life..." Of course, she would then have risked a mandatory minimum (thanks to the Conservatives!) of three years in jail and a maximum (thanks to the Liberals!) of 10 years.

September 2, 2009 – Marshall on Depressions: In his Principles of Economics (1920), Alfred Marshall perhaps says about depressions everything that needs to be said – in just a few paragraphs. Read my short post on The Barstool Economists.

August 30, 2009 – To hear about other good stories, feel free to befriend me on Facebook. You can look me up under PL@pierrelemieux.org. Please mention that you come from the pierrelemieux.org website.

August 30, 2009 – This young woman, Cassidy Nicosia, was arested for being bare-breasted in public during a demonstration in New Hampshire. But this is not the most interesting fact of the case. She was also armed with a semi-auto pistol, which can be seen on her right hip. It is more visible in a Keene Sentinel story. (See also the New Hampshire Free Press story.) We can't see this often in our statist world: a young woman arguing with a cop while wearing a handgun on HER hip. As the moto of New Hampshire says, Live Free or Die! And good luck to Cassidy Nicosia!

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