What is Money?
byThere exists a certain amount of confusion today about what money truly is, how it originated and who should produce it (the government or…
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From nuts to Paul Krugman
byAn excellent article from Amity Shlaes: Nut cases. That’s what they are. And if you take an interest in them, you are a nut…
Contra Bernanke on the gold standard
byIn his lecture at George Washington University on March 20, 2012, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said that under a gold standard the authorities’…
The Golden Revolution
byContrary to the conventional wisdom of the current economic mainstream that the gold standard is but a quaint historical anachronism, there has been an…
America at the financial crossroads
byAmerica must now take one of two divergent roads. First, America may persist on the road of soft indulgence afforded by the unstable dollar’s…
Thinking inside the box – Chatham House on gold
byLast week, Chatham House, formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a non-profit, non-governmental institution in London whose “mission is to…
ECB money injection not a reason for optimism
byAre you feeling optimistic yet? Are you confident that policy-makers have things under control? – If so, you must believe that we can solve…
Two sound articles chime with TCC
byThere are two excellent articles in today’s press. The first is in written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and appears in the Daily Telegraph. It is…
Greece should return to a gold standard
byFallacies and Misconceptions about the Greek Crisis One frequently gets the impression from reading the mainstream media that Greece has a monetary policy problem…
The Gold Standard and Monetary Freedom
by(This talk was delivered at a debate on whether “America Should Adopt the Gold Standard,” sponsored by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the…