The crisis of interventionism, the end of globalisation, and the looming tech trade war
by“I say to all those who bet against Greece and against Europe: You lost and Greece won. You lost and Europe won.” –Jean-Claude Juncker,…
Economic Cycles
Is This China’s QE?
by[Editor’s note: this piece was first published at Zero Hedge, which has had several excellent articles tracking the effusions of the PBOC and their…
Bedtime for Bondo
by“By sacrificing quality an investor can obtain a higher income return from his bonds. Long experience has demonstrated that the ordinary investor is wiser…
Is Paul Krugman Leaving Princeton In Quiet Disgrace?
byProfessor Paul Krugman is leaving Princeton. Is he leaving in disgrace? Not long, as these things go, before his departure was announced Krugman thoroughly was…
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,…
Wood will burn
by“I am definitely concerned. When was [the cyclically adjusted P/E ratio or CAPE] higher than it is now? I can tell you: 1929, 2000…
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…
A time of universal deceit
by“Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Ben Graham. “What really broke Germany was the…
Europe’s Mario Draghi Starring in Bernanke’s Show
by[Editor’s note: this article, by Brendon Brown, was first published by Mises.org.] Just as Professor Bernanke exits center stage at the end of Act…
Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle
byFree-market economist Dr. Brian P. Simpson, author of Markets Don’t Fail! (Lanham, Maryland [USA]: Lexington Books, 2005) and a professor at National University in…