Monetary discord
byLast Monday’s Daily Telegraph carried an interview with Jaime Caruana , the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (the BIS). As General Manger,…
Austrian School
Is there room for Austrian ideas at the top table?
by[Editor’s note: now that Steve Baker MP is on the Treasury Select Committee, it should be of interest to all Austrianists, and those interested…
GO: J.M. Keynes Versus J.-B. Say
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Steve H Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the…
These fake rallies will end in tears
by[Editor’s note: This article also appears on Detlev Schlichter’s blog here. It is reproduced with kind permission and should NOT be taken to be investment advice.]…
Paper Money Collapse 2nd edition teaser
byOne of the interesting things that happened at the End of the World Club on Monday evening, was a teaser of what’s new about…
‘The system has spun out of control’
byBook Review: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System by James Rickards The title will no doubt give Cobden…
ECB embraces QE faulty logic
byEditor’s note: this article, under the title “No end to central bank meddling as ECB embraces ‘quantitative easing’, faulty logic” appears on Detlev Schlichter’s…
The four words that define western economic policy
by“The goods and services traded on the semi-secretive website Silk Road since February 2011 with the virtual currency Bitcoins were so varied that the…
Money demand and banking – some challenges for the “Free Bankers”
byWithin the Austrian School of Economics there has long been disagreement and therefore occasionally fierce debate about the nature and consequences of fractional-reserve banking,…
Time and Money
byContinued from Et in Arcadia ego Here we come full circle, for what this essentially presumes is that there exist no means by which to…