Arden Partners: Much ado about nothing
byEwen Stewart of Arden Partners has kindly supplied his note The Budget – Much ado about nothing for publication. The backdrop to this budget…
Economics
The market yawns
byWhere’s the market reaction? Yawns the prophet of Princeton, Paul Krugman in response to the passage of Obama’s health care bill. In totally separate…
FT.com – We should not be saved from our stupidity
byIt is very hard to play the game of life – or of capitalism – when governments keep changing the rules. Which they do…
Corrigan: In Default of Sanity
bySean Corrigan introduces his article In Default of Sanity by quoting Plutarch, Pericles, Ch 9‐14: In the beginning… he tried to ingratiate himself with…
Free Banking, the Balance Sheet and Contract Law Approach
byFor new readers to this site who are not aware of the debate that exists within the Austrian School, there are those who are…
Corrigan on Sweden and China
bySweden, that Democratic Socialist paradise that is the role model of all progressives, is compared to the UK, whose state sector is the same…
Over to you Mr Krugman!
byFunnily enough, Etatism doesn’t seem to enhance wealth creation or the production of enough tradeable goods to meet either the country’s direct needs, or…
Walter Allan R.I.P
byIt is with great sadness that I have learned in the last 24 hours that an old friend, Walter Allan, died last Friday. A…
The Crack-up Boom
byThis post is excerpted from Mises’ “The Causes of the Economic Crisis and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression” which is available…
The Fastest Growing Export of the Western Banking Industry is Fraud | zero hedge
byVia James Tyler and zero hedge, The Fastest Growing Export of the Western Banking Industry is Fraud: Politicians and bankers would do well to head…