Publications, September

September was filled with interesting topics (Finance-Finance-Finance-Climate-Monetary History, which pretty much sums up my intellectual life) and at least one interesting development: I have now launched my freelancing business full-time!

In addition to my writing, I offer copyediting services, proofreading and research assistance. I'm on all the major sites (Fiverr, UpWork, Freelancer) but the easiest way to get in touch with me is to drop me a line at info@joakimbook.com or reach out on Twitter (or contribute to my work via Buy Me a Coffee). All things finance, banking, and money – research reports, blogs or dissertation and manuscripts for journal articles, I'm your guy.

Despite all the editing work I did this month, I managed the following publications:

Notes On Liberty: (see all my posts here)

• [1] 'Musings on Opinions: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum', a well-polished afternoon rant about whether you can believe anything you want. Sometimes – surprisingly often, I posit – you cannot. 

American Institute for Economic Research (all my pieces here)

• [2] 'If You Are Early, You Are Wrong', the pop culture-induced financial analyses are back! And I got ridiculed on twitter for it, meaning that it was probably successful.
• [3] 'The Return of the Century Bond', where I observed an unintended outcome of low-interest rates and aggressive monetary policy: the revival of really long-term debt contracts
• This piece was reprinted in the Berkshire Eagle and on Bennington Banner. 
• Featured on RealClearMarkets too. 
• [4] 'In Defense of Share Buybacks', where I attacked Martin Wolf at the FT for his weak arguments over how bad it is that companies buy back their own shares. 
• Re-run on Capitalism Magazine as 'Capitalism and Finance: In Defense of Share Buybacks' 
• Featured on RealClearMarkets. 
• [5] 'The Myth of Imminent Collapse', my timely dusting off of Jared Diamond's work in light of environmental hysteria – particularly Collapse and his recent Upheaval. 
• Featured on RealClearMarkets – I'm on a decent RCM streak now!
• Oh, and the piece ran on ZeroHedge too – my second-ever ZH appearance. Very proud of that!
• Featured on the South African site Investing Matters
• and echoed on 1BUV, Nation and State and shared at StoriesFlow.

Mises Institute (see all my pieces here)

• [6] 'What John Law Taught Us About the Perils of Money Printing', where I started the 300th anniversary of the "Bubble Years" of 1719-1720 a little early (Mississippi Bubble + South Sea Bubble). There will be a lot of amazing financial history coming out in the next year, so keep your eyes open. 
• Spanish Mises-institute translated it: 

While 6 publications is less than the July record of 9, it's still decent all things considered. Overall, a pretty successful month!