The Oppenheimer Arbitrage
byRecently, the always-interesting Dylan Grice at Soc Gen received some well deserved blog virality for his aphorism that to be ‘long commodities is to…
February, 2011
The War on the Poor
byThe gigantic sums of credit created out of nothing, causing a doubling and in some cases tripling of the money supplies of Western Governments,…
Liam Halligan: Does a surge in food and oil prices mean that it’s now time to panic?
byAnother excellent piece from Mr Liam Halligan, in this morning’s Sunday Telegraph, who has spotted where all of that money — that Ben Bernanke has…
A campaign for one day of peace
byThe Cobden Centre exists to promote social progress through honest money, free trade and peace. As you can see from those links, we have touched…
One for the Weekend: Allen Mendhenhall: Literature and the Economics of Liberty
byJeffrey Tucker, of the Mises Institute, interviews Allen Mendenhall, a Ph.D. student at Auburn University, in Alabama, and discusses the role of Austrian Economics…
Money is barren but occasionally covers us in dust
byAs I expect many readers of this site will know, a debate has begun between the Austrian Economist Robert Murphy and the “Quasi-Monetarists” Scott…
A Moment of Clarity
byIs the bond market finally catching on to the “forced risk” trade…? AS NIALL FERGUSON never tires of reminding us, bond markets rarely react…
Some Virginia Legislators Worry about Hyperinflation!
byA good article from Robert Jackson Smith: Some legislators in the Commonwealth of Virginia are worried about hyperinflation! See House Joint Resolution No. 557….
No more ‘Doctor NO’: Austrians as policy-makers
byMuch capital is made by the world’s predominant Collectivists of the supposed fact that the Austrians actively relish the bloodletting which they howl would…