Liam Fox on Sound Money
byLiam Fox has written a piece in The Times on sound money: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/regulars/guestcolumn/article1620451.ece Dr Fox also spoke at the IEA this morning…
October, 2015
No More “Free Trade” Treaties: It’s Time for Genuine Free Trade
byThis article, by Ferghane Azihari and Louis Rouanet, originated here: https://mises.org/library/no-more-free-trade-treaties-its-time-genuine-free-trade It is erroneous to believe that free traders have been historically in favor…
Living off immoral earnings
by“You’re not only wrong. You’re wrong at the top of your voice.” – John J Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) in ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’….
David Stockman on Bernanke
bySource: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bernankes-balderdash/ The US and world economies are drifting inexorably into the next recession owing to the deflationary collapse of commodities, capital spending and world…
Resisting Socialism in early 20th Century Britain
by“The foundations of economic freedom are weakening around the world, according to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and…
The Final Crescendo Of Cognitive Dollar Dissonance And The Remonetisation Of Gold
by(This Report is an adaptation of my keynote address to the 2015 Sydney Precious Metals Symposium, held this month.) “Power tends to corrupt. Absolute…
The Reality Behind the Numbers in China’s Boom-Bust Economy
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Yonathan Amselem originated here: https://mises.org/library/reality-behind-numbers-china%E2%80%99s-boom-bust-economy] Last year, the world was stunned by an IMF report which found the Chinese…
Time to End Monetary Central Planning
byThere is no way to describe current Federal Reserve policy other than as monetary confusion and misdirection. In a nutshell, Janet Yellen and the…
Chapter 5: Economists and the Banking System, part 2: Adam Smith, some early Americans, and Friedrich List.
byThis chapter is about economics in transition. Economics means literally ‘housekeeping’ and most early writers on economics (roughly speaking before Adam Smith, 1723-90) treated…
Crony Capitalism the Cause of Society’s Problems
bySince the economic downturn of 2008, the critics of capitalism have redoubled their efforts to persuade the American people and many others around the…