Fed’s policies expose mainstream fallacies
byAt the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in San-Diego on January 4-6 2013 Harvard professor of economics Benjamin Friedman said, The standard…
January, 2013
In memoriam: James M. Buchanan
byIt was with great sadness that I heard, on the morning of the 9th of January, that James McGill Buchanan, winner of the Nobel…
‘Brexit’ talk with Nigel Farage
byEpisode 87: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan talks to Nigel Farage MEP, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, and co-chair of the Europe of Freedom…
AEP and “The Chicago Plan Revisited”
byTowards the end of last year, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard discovered the IMF working paper “The Chicago Plan Revisited” (PDF), which “revives the scheme first put forward…
A tale of two retailers
byHMV stands on the brink of extinction with 4,500 jobs at risk. The shop is a fixture of High Streets up and down the…
Patrick Barron on the eurozone’s future
byEpisode 86: Professor Patrick Barron is an Austrian School economist who teaches courses in banking and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the…
Easy, isn’t it?
byWith the halls no longer decked with boughs of holly and the wassailers at last stuffed full of figgy pudding, we have all reluctantly…
Austrian economics in 2013
byRegular readers of my articles either have some knowledge of Austrian economic theory or at least suspect that Keynesian and monetarist alternatives are flawed….
The economics of gold and silver in 2013
byThe New Year should see some major changes in how gold and silver are regarded in the West, if it becomes obvious that confidence…
The true significance of the $1 trillion coin
byUnder President Obama the debt of the United States government has grown by about 50%, and now stands at close to $16 trillion. Every…