Gold bullion flowing from West to East
byEarlier this month Eric Sprott circulated a paper, co-authored by him, which concluded that Western central banks have considerably less physical gold than they…
October, 2012
London Mises Circle November meeting
byThe seminars hosted by Ludwig von Mises, first in Vienna and later in New York, have a key place in the history and development…
Roger Bootle’s prize winning advice to the Greeks: sit still while we rob you!
byThis summer Roger Bootle won Lord Wolfson’s £250,000 prize for the best advice for a country leaving the European Monetary Union (one may assume…
A tweet too far?
by“Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.” So read the ‘tweet’ that the media immediately labeled a ‘conspiracy theory’,…
Boom
by“Giarre, a town in eastern Sicily, sits above the sea on the slopes of Mount Etna. It was once a collection point for the…
Czech national bank vice governor Hampl on the Czech economy and the eurozone
byEarlier this week I interviewed Mr Hampl of the Czech National Bank. He made a number of interesting observations concerning his own country, the…
Is deflation a major threat to the eurozone?
byIn its October 2012 World Economic Outlook report the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the European Central Bank (ECB) should keep interest rates…
Money printing is the only thing keeping the system afloat
byLast Monday GoldMoney published my article showing the frightening growth in money-quantities for the US dollar. In that article I stated that the hyperbolic…
Why Krugman’s view on MMMF is completely wrong
byIn a recent Mises Daily article Mark Thornton has offered an excellent critique of why Krugman’s attack on the Austrian view of money market…
Keeping the free market faith
byFor Radio 4: The financial crisis has made many on the political right question their faith in free market capitalism. Jamie Whyte is unaffected…