Signs of the gold standard emerging In China?
byAs noted in last week’s column about the rising recognition by authorities in Germany about the virtues of gold, the gold standard is receiving impressive…
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The wasteland
by Sean CorriganThe world of ‘alternative’ energy has been no stranger to embarrassment of late, whether it be leading windmill-maker Vestas’ 96% plunge to a 14-year…
Two themes and a variation
by Sean CorriganAround the start of the year, in the course of a routine set of market overviews which we have to set out twice a…
Kohlruebenwinter for Coventry, Cologne, Caritiba & Canton
by Sean CorriganLast week it was announced that Beijing was reversing an earlier decision to allow local governments to issue their own bonds, causing eyebrows to…
Wen passes, Ben twists, Angela sticks
by Sean CorriganIn a new paper from the HKUST academic team of Li, Liu & Wang, the authors lay out a clear exposition of the way…
Here be dragons
by Sean CorriganInevitably, when yet another false dawn for the Sinomaniacs turned into a lowering twilight, the newswire reporting surrounding the latest Chinese PMI numbers included…
China crisis
by Sean Corrigan“A central power, as enlightened, as skilful as can be imagined, cannot by itself encompass all the details of the life of a great…
Austrian economics in Shanghai
by Toby BaxendaleExtraordinary things are happening in China, as we know. On the liberty-loving front, we can report a really interesting and path-breaking conference organised by…
Asia’s golden future
by Alasdair MacleodFor most of the last century the default currency for international settlements has been the US dollar. This has given America ultimate power over…
China and Europe: 100 years of folly
by David HowdenOne can read The Daily Mail for its coverage of the royal family, snapshots of British life, or, if you are like me, the…