It Is NOT Priced-In, Stupid!
[This piece, by David Stockman, was originally published here http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/it-is-not-priced-in-stupid/] Among all the mindless blather served up by the talking heads of bubblevision is the…
Jim Grant Explains “Our” 3 Biggest Financial Mistakes
This piece first appeared at Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-27/jim-grant-explains-our-3-biggest-financial-mistakes Submitted by Michael Ide via Valuewalk.com, Speaking at Russell Napier’s Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh earlier this…
Cobden Partners on Radio 4
The Cobden Centre contributor and Cobden Partners founder Gordon Kerr was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Today yesterday talking about Kevin Dowd’s recent paper…
The Non-GAAP Revulsion Arrives: Experts Throw Up All Over “Made Up, Phony, Smoke And Mirrors” Numbers
[This was first published at Zero Hedge here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-08/non-gaap-revulsion-arrives-experts-throw-all-over-made-phony-smoke-and-mirrors-profi] One of the recurring stories on Zero Hedge has been the increasingly more blatant fabrication of…
How Government Inaction Ended the Depression of 1921
[This piece, by Lew Rockwell, was first published at mises.org here https://mises.org/library/how-government-inaction-ended-depression-1921] As the financial crisis of 2008 took shape, the policy recommendations were not…
Government Regulation and Economic Stagnation
[This article, from Peter St. Onge at Mises.org was first published here https://mises.org/library/government-regulation-and-economic-stagnation] One of the more interesting economic debates in the past couple…
How GDP Metrics Distort Our View of the Economy
[This piece, by Christopher P. Casey, first appeared at mises.org here https://mises.org/library/how-gdp-metrics-distort-our-view-economy] GDP purports to measure economic activity while largely divorcing itself from the quality, profitability,…
A Portrait of the Classical Gold Standard
[This excellent article, by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna, first appeared here https://mises.org/library/portrait-classical-gold-standard] “The world that disappeared in 1914 appeared, in retrospect, something like our picture of Paradise,”…
Exclusive Interview with Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies
Bernard Lietaer is an expert in innovative monetary systems. While at the Central Bank in Belgium he co-designed and implemented the ECU, the convergence mechanism …
The Private Equity Boom, Easy Money, and Crony Capitalism
[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…