The Silver Lining in the Fed’s $600 Billion Decision
byA good article from Ryan Streeter The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to buy $600 billion in bonds—another example of the mysteriously named “quantitative easing”—may…
November, 2010
Richard Fisher: A Bridge to Fiscal Sanity?
byOf course, he’s a captive of Keynesian mainstream thinking, but this is, nonetheless, a fairly clear-headed assessment of what ails America as well as…
Jim Rickards: Zoellick has legitimised the gold debate
byIn Part II of an earlier interview, Jim Rickards, Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, speaks to Eric King about the last…
The World Bank world gold standard? No thanks!
byEvents are moving at such a dizzying speed in the economic waters in which the Cobden Centre swims, that it is hard to take…
Joseph T. Salerno: Money, Sound and Unsound
byAfter you have read The Ethics of Money Production, by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, you might find you have a little energy left over for…
Bernanke spurned: Gold hits $1400 dollars
byThe gold price will go down again, especially once the central bank cartel hits the between-markets dead zones, but gold hit $1400 dollars today…
Ron Paul: Inflation is Taxation without Representation
byCongressman Ron Paul celebrates the birth of The Creature from Jekyll Island by running through its accomplishments on CNBC. The Congressman also spares some…
A third way: instant access by exception
byCross posted at Mises.org and The Coordination Problem. Come the Revolution, in a free banking world, where there is at least no lender of…
The Austrian Theory of Boom and Bust with Lawrence H. White
byProfessor Lawrence H. White from George Mason University explains the Austrian theory of the boom and bust over three linked YouTube videos produced by…
Liam Halligan: The rest of the world goes West when America prints more money
byThe usual level of excellence and sense from Mr Halligan, in the Telegraph. Here’s a quote: This crazy money-printing is going to be seen…