Toby and Tim off to the US
byTomorrow, Toby and I are off to the US for a conference. While I am not looking forward to the early start and the…
America’s $100 TRILLION problem and the death of the Provider State
byFOX Business Network’s Brian Sullivan speaks in this interview with famed economist and fmr. Chilean Labor and Social Security Minister Jose Pinera about the…
Banksters on the Welfare State of Credit
byOur Corporate Affairs Director Steve Baker has posed this question to some of his fellow board members, “Would be great to nail this phenomenon…
Buchanan: The Constitutionalization of Money
byJames M. Buchanan (Nobel Laureate, economics, 1986) on reform of the monetary regime through constitutional 100% reserves: The market will not work effectively with…
Policy Exchange and the Near Consensus on the Merits of QE
byI went to this event today. “22/02/2010 – Ideas Space Quantitative Easing: Friend or Future Foe? The Bank of England entered unchartered territory in…
The Luvvie Tax
byI see the panel of economic experts that is the acting industry have latched onto the Tobin tax, now re-branded the ‘Robin Hood Tax’. …
Darius Guppy is spot on about the bank credit creation process
byVia Darius Guppy: our world balances on a sea of debt What is needed is a root and branch re-evaluation of that most curious…
More evidence of the incompetence of state accountants re derivatives
byVia The Telegraph: Meanwhile Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, criticised investment banks for the role they may have played in helping Greece to mask…
Corrigan on inflation, unemployment and the stimulus
byOn inflation, unemployment, especially desperate youth unemployment, and the stimulus. Consider, in the lows of the first years of the century, there were 2.8…
Is this the beginning of the end of the Eurozone?
byCould the endgame of this “Greek tragedy” be a eurozone break-up? The single currency’s supporters maintain such an outcome is mere mythology. Greece accounts…