Do equities (and real estate) give you inflation protection?
byConfronted with the possibility that the endgame of the present experiment in extreme monetary accommodation may be higher inflation and even currency disaster, many…
March, 2014
Do we have easy money?
byThis week marked the fifth anniversary of the 0.5% Bank of England base rate and the Bank of England’s Quantitative Easing program which has…
The success of “credit easing” on its own terms
byToday, the Telegraph reports, UK house price growth ‘approaching madness’: The speed UK property prices are rising at is “approaching madness”, analysts have warned, after…
Five years of disastrously low interest rates have left Britain addicted to cheap credit
byThis article originally appeared in The Telegraph on 5 March 2014. It is reproduced by permission of the author. Five years ago today, the Bank…
TTIP – when free trade goes wrong?
byIn 1942, Wilhelm Röpke’s International Economic Disintegration was published. An international order of liberal free trade collapsed through nationalism, protectionism and monetary destruction. Many…