Legatum Institute Event: “Sweating our Assets: Yield not Ownership is the Solution”
byDag Detter, former advisor to the Swedish government and author of The Public Wealth of Nations, will be in conversation with Legatum Institute’s Tim…
February, 2015
Unemployment and groupthink
byOn Friday 6th February the American Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment estimates for January, which being better than the market expected,…
A matter of trust
by“Popping down to #guardiancoffee later on to order a ‘Toynbee’: short, rich and intensely bitter.” – Tweet from Robbie Collin (chief film critic, The…
The Private Equity Boom, Easy Money, and Crony Capitalism
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Brendan Brown, first appeared at http://mises.org/library/private-equity-boom-easy-money-and-crony-capitalism] Amongst the big winners from the Obama Fed’s Great Monetary Experiment has been the…
How did we end up here?
byWhile money can be made in markets on the minutest of scales, sometimes it helps to have a broader sense of perspective. After all,…
The Greatest Depression You’ve Never, Ever Heard Of
byJames Grant, in his new book The Forgotten Depression, makes a strong case for applying a prime directive of the Hippocratic Oath — “First,…
One Leg to Stand on
byHere’s a question for all the cheering QEuro fans out there. If you came across a country where both real and nominal money supply…
“A more serious disaster later on..”
by“Another day, another central bank failure. In a world of currencies backed only by confidence, every failure is masqueraded as success. Like the ballet…
Does a fall in unemployment lead to stronger economic growth?
byFor the head of the Federal Reserve Board Janet Yellen and most economists the key to economic growth is a strengthening in the labor…
Swiss National Bank policy and its implications for currencies, assets and central banking
bySwiss National Bank policy and its implications for currencies, assets and central banking The SNB unpegged from the Euro and sustained balance sheet losses,…