Monetary activism caused the crisis and may cause a worse one later
byTwo weeks ago in the Budget debate, I set out how “monetary activism”, which is one of the pillars of the Government’s strategy, could…
April, 2012
Savings, investment, and the Keynesian preference – a follow-up
byFollowing on from last Saturday’s article … There is a general belief that government finances are somehow immune from the financial reality faced by…
The Golden Revolution
byContrary to the conventional wisdom of the current economic mainstream that the gold standard is but a quaint historical anachronism, there has been an…
Interview with James Turk
byA podcast for the GoldMoney Foundation … James Turk and Alasdair Macleod discuss the pros and cons of the gold standard, the benefits of…
Did Bernanke prevent another Great Depression?
byIn a lecture given at the George Washington University on March 27, 2012 the Chairman of the Fed said that the US central bank’s…
Problem solving
by“FTSE 100 could hit 7,000 if the Bank of England prints more money” – Telegraph headline implicating Legal & General’s Ben Gill as the…
America at the financial crossroads
byAmerica must now take one of two divergent roads. First, America may persist on the road of soft indulgence afforded by the unstable dollar’s…
Money matters
bySeveral months ago, when we were trying to summarise our best guess as to the shape of the coming year, we had to attach…
Jim Grant on the Federal Reserve
byVia ZeroHedge, we discovered a must-read article by Jim Grant, published in the March 23rd edition of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer (Vol 30, No…