Book Review: Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays
The remarkable thing about being an aspiring Rothbardian, is that no matter how much Rothbard you read, the next virgin Rothbard book up on…
Book Review: Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse
If you believe in a Creator, then you must acknowledge that He (or She) possesses an incredible sense of humour. Without this, how do…
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
John Papola and Russ Roberts, of EconStories, gave themselves a difficult problem when they created their first incredible Keynes vs. Hayek video. It was…
Liam Halligan: America appears to be sleepwalking towards disaster – does no one care?
Here is an excerpt from Liam Halligan’s splendid piece in today’s Telegraph: There is now, according to S&P, “at least a one in three…
BBC Radio 4: Bailout Boys Go to Dublin
A fascinating BBC Radio 4 documentary was broadcast today, detailing the story of the Irish government’s recent bailout by the ECB. It is available…
BBC Newsnight: What do record gold prices tell us about the state of the world economy?
In frivolous mood a couple of weeks ago, I wrote the following within a Cobden Centre article: “In the meantime, when the BBC Newsnight…
Economist Jesús Huerta de Soto discusses the real causes of the financial crisis
Speaking of James Turk, via his GoldMoney Foundation he sponsors various educational initiatives in the splendid and necessary cause of sound money. A recent…
James Turk: The edge of chaos
For all of you King World News fans out there, there’s an interesting interview just out between Eric King and James Turk: KWN Interview,…
Inflation Explained
You might remember a remarkable YouTube from Omid Malekan, a few months ago, entitled Quantitative Easing Explained. Well, he has been busy again, with…
Another Rubicon crossed
As the swarm of centrally-planned fiat currencies continue their relentless and accelerative march towards worthlessness, another major number was taken out this morning when…