CentreRight: On economic forecasting and double-dip recession
byOver at CentreRight, I have set out briefly the mistake presently being made by policymakers in the US, which I expect to be mirrored in…
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Peter Schiff: Weak economy, Fed ease, China, WWIII
byIn a somewhat startlingly-named new video blog, Mr Schiff begins by discussing inflation trends within the US, with reference to Ben Bernanke and the…
Honest Savings and Dishonest Money
byProf J Guido Hülsmann of the University of Angers gave a private talk on the 10th of July called “Honest Savings and Dishonest Money”…
Are we experiencing Malflation?
byInflation This is a fall in the value of the purchasing power of money. Deflation This is an increase in the value of the…
Calls for further monetary expansion are cuckoo
byIn today’s Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives a splendid analysis of the dire fiscal problems facing the developed economies, but a dreadful analysis of their…
A Monetarist whitewash from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
byAn entertaining article, choc-a-bloc with Monetarist whitewash, in The Telegraph today. Apparently Jean Claude Trichet is “inflicting a triple shock of fiscal, monetary and…
Kevin Dowd blogs Steve’s speech in the budget debate
byProfessor Kevin Dowd blogs my speech in the budget debate for the IEA: By far the best contribution to the parliamentary debate on the…
Are the Chinese moving into the endgame with the Dollar?
byThe Chinese government has many financial problems coming up, the worst of which is trying to get rid of all those US Treasury securities…
From one uncertainty to another
byI will be live-blogging the budget for Reuters, and as part of the build up I have a short article on the role of…
How to start a movement
byVia TED: