John Hathaway: The end game for paper currency
byJohn Hathaway is a senior managing director and portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management, specialising in the Tocqueville Gold Fund. Mr Hathaway recently wrote…
August, 2010
Peter Schiff: Unemployment compensation — the new early retirement & 3rd rail of American politics
byMr Schiff discusses the dead-cat bounce of the Dollar index this week before moving onto the growth of unemployment culture in the US, and…
Grossly Distorted Product
byIt should not come as a shock to readers of your author’s musings to learn that he views the mindless, repetitive, near-valueless kerfuffle which…
Can Malaysia’s Islamic gold dinar thwart CRONY CORPORATE capitalism?
byI am grateful to the great American Libertarian legal scholar Stephan Kinsella for pointing this article out to me from our very own dear…
Are “normal” businesses 100% reserved?
byWhen discussing the “fraudulent” nature of fractional-reserve banking, the crux of the issue seems to be how the law distinguishes between banks and other…
Alongside Night
byIn an article earlier this week, Andy Duncan mentioned a gem of a novel about this potential paper money breakdown scenario by J. Neil…
CentreRight: On economic forecasting and double-dip recession
byOver at CentreRight, I have set out briefly the mistake presently being made by policymakers in the US, which I expect to be mirrored in…
No sympathy for Ponzi SMEs – Business Review Europe
byIn an op ed for Business Review Europe, I challenge the conventional wisdom on the importance of the SME sector. The unintended consequence of…
Bill Laggner: US government is running the US markets
byLaissez faire means: Let the common man choose and act; do not force him to yield to a dictator. Ludwig von Mises, page 730,…
Cowen: Mutual Fund Banking
byProfessor Tyler Cowen in 1990 was writing about reforming the banking system based along mutual lines. If he had been listened to back then,…