Steve Baker MP on sound money
byEpisode 68: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Steve Baker MP, a Conservative backbencher who represents the constituency of Wycombe in the United Kingdom’s House…
Economics
“Fool’s Gold” Standards
byIn a recent Mises Daily, “A Golden Opportunity“, Patrick Barron and Godfrey Bloom make the case for Germany to withdraw from the monetary union combined with…
Jeffrey Tucker on the future of private money
byEpisode 67: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Jeffrey Tucker, Publisher & Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books and author of It’s a Jetsons World, Bourbon for Breakfast, and A Beautiful…
Central bank policies and the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises
byThere were a lot of commentaries regarding the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises. Most of the commentaries were confined to the description of…
The Keynesians’ new clothes
byIt might seem like yesterday to some but it was already in 2009 that politicians in Europe began to talk about ‘austerity’, a concept…
Green shoots of a US recovery?
byThere is growing hope in some quarters that economic recovery is at last under way in the USA. Is this just an election-inspired pick-up…
Doug French’s top 10 books on money
byMy latest GoldMoney podcast, this time with Mr Doug French: Episode 66: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Doug French about his 10 favourite books written by…
Contra Richard Koo and the Keynesians: it is not about ‘aggregate demand’ but about real prices
byI do not want to waste your time and my energy with shooting down misguided Keynesian schemes all the time, schemes that have been…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … Congressman!
byAmericans just cast ballots for president, for the House, and for a third of the U.S. Senate, plus various local offices and referenda in…
Plus ça change
byConveniently coming just in time for the crucial Party conference, the official China PMI index inched above the 50-level watershed and so was enough…