Study on Corporation Tax
byEarlier this week, The Taxpayers’ Alliance published a policy brief that I wrote on corporation tax. The report looks at the efficiency, fairness, simplicity,…
April, 2011
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
byJohn Papola and Russ Roberts, of EconStories, gave themselves a difficult problem when they created their first incredible Keynes vs. Hayek video. It was…
Fractional reserve banking and boom-bust cycles
byIn his various writings, the famous Austrian economist Murray Rothbard argued that in a free market economy that operates on a gold standard the…
The Delayed Effect of Printing Money via Quantitative Easing
byGold reaches £913 per ounce If political leaders and central bankers think that they can curb the currency debasing effect of QE merely by…
Birth and Death of the Celtic Tiger
byIn 2008 Eurostat reported that Ireland was the second richest country in the EU. Less than three years later, Max Keiser presents us with…
Mervyn King’s “Operation Bernhard”
byThe UK is in sorry shape today. The British can at least take comfort in knowing that things are still not anywhere near as…
Liam Halligan: America appears to be sleepwalking towards disaster – does no one care?
byHere is an excerpt from Liam Halligan’s splendid piece in today’s Telegraph: There is now, according to S&P, “at least a one in three…
BBC Radio 4: Bailout Boys Go to Dublin
byA fascinating BBC Radio 4 documentary was broadcast today, detailing the story of the Irish government’s recent bailout by the ECB. It is available…
BBC Newsnight: What do record gold prices tell us about the state of the world economy?
byIn frivolous mood a couple of weeks ago, I wrote the following within a Cobden Centre article: “In the meantime, when the BBC Newsnight…
Economist Jesús Huerta de Soto discusses the real causes of the financial crisis
bySpeaking of James Turk, via his GoldMoney Foundation he sponsors various educational initiatives in the splendid and necessary cause of sound money. A recent…