Despair and hope for monetary reform
byOn Saturday, I spoke again to set out the scale and scope of our financial and monetary mess and again, the audience welcomed the…
Bagehot’s REAL opinion
byWe all know the cliché about how to deal with panics – viz., ‘lend freely at a penalty rate’ – and the fact that…
Message to the Pensions Minister: You cannot improve things by distorting free markets
byThe Daily Telegraph reports today that: About 60% of private sector pension schemes “have clear rules” entitling retirees to annual increases in their pensions…
Philipp Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
byPhilipp Bagus is an associate professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid and a visiting professor at Prague University. He has just written a…
Quote of the week: Henry Ford on FRB
byWhen asked to bail out his son’s bank, Henry Ford, now in his seventies and increasingly autocratic and unreasonable, refused to bail out his…
Alan Greenspan: Gold and Economic Freedom
byBefore Alan Greenspan stood down from his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul got him to sign a copy of Greenspan’s 1966 essay,…
John Hathaway: Gold is now a legitimate topic of conversation for the pension funds
byJohn Hathaway, of the Toqueville Funds, was recently interviewed by Eric King. They spoke about the failure of the EU to get the toothpaste…
Gold: An objective look at subjective value
byEdited remarks from a speech given by Tony Deden at the annual meeting of the Spanish Precious Metals Association (AEMP) in Madrid on 25…
$30 Silver Price, 1st Time in 30 Years
byOkay, so once the central banking cartel gets its increasingly clumsy act into gear, the silver price will fall below $30 dollars an ounce…
Gerard Casey: The Major Contributions of the Scholastics to Economics
byFollowing up on our Cobden Centre Radio discussion last week, Professor Gerard Casey’s article on The Scholastics today appeared on Mises.org. Here is the…