So, what is wrong with Keynesianism?
byRecently, someone left a comment on a post here along the lines of: “What’s your problem with Keynes?” One of the replies mentioned Hazlitt’s…
Economics
It’s a mad mad mad mad world
byShinzo Abe, Japan’s new prime minister, has some exciting new ideas about how to make Japan’s economy grow. How about the government borrows a…
Goons versus gold
by“When, more than 100 years ago, George Gilbert Williams, president of the famously conservative Chemical Bank, was asked for the secret of his success,…
Top ten reasons why fiat currency is superior to gold
byIn the spirit of the holidays and hope for a more prosperous 2013, I thought my readers might appreciate a little humour to partially…
Outlook for 2013
byI have not faced the prospect of a new year with so much trepidation as when I contemplate what is in store for 2013….
50th anniversary of Man, Economy, and State
byAs 2012 draws to a close, we should note that it is the 50th anniversary of the 1962 publication of Murray Rothbard’s grand treatise,…
Deck the halls with macro follies
byIn case you missed it, here’s another gem from EconStories.tv … In an article reprinted at Mises.org, John Papola explains: Each year, our attention turns to…
A matter of interest – part 4
byMake do and mend Continued from Part 3. That the development of a situation where an over-proportion in the assembly of higher-order capital combinations vis-à-vis the…
Japan in 2013
byThe Japanese government for the last twenty three years has employed the Keynesian tools of deficit spending and more recently the monetarist policies of…
Aboveground gold stock likely smaller than commonly thought
byEpisode 78: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan interviews James Turk, Chairman of GoldMoney and co-author of The Collapse of the Dollar, about his study of the aboveground global gold…