Striking gold
by“Sir, Martin Wolf in his article “Radical cures for unusual economic ills” suggests an abandonment of free market capitalism, as it has been practised…
Inflation
“Smacking a skunk with a tennis racket”
by“Finally, as expectations of rapid inflation evaporate, I want to contribute to the debate about the November 15, 2010 letter signed by 23 US…
The Gold Standard Did Not Cause The Great Depression, Part 2
byAs noted in my previous column, AEI’s James Pethokoukis and National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru — among many others — appear to have fallen victim…
China’s gold strategy
byChina first delegated the management of gold policy to the People’s Bank by regulations in 1983. This development was central to China’s emergence as…
Janet Yellen, Politicizing the Fed?
byJanet Yellen gave a widely noted speech, Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity from the Survey of Consumer Finances, at the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality…
Like treating cancer with aspirin
by“Sir, Your editorial “A Nobel award for work of true economic value” (October 15) cites the witty and memorable line of J M Keynes about…
Four Reasons the Bernanke-Yellen Asset-Price Inflation May Be Nearing Its End
byThere are strong indications that the remarkable run up of asset prices in the last few years is beginning to run out of steam…
A market reset due
byRecent evidence points increasingly towards global economic contraction. Parts of the Eurozone are in great difficulty, and only last weekend S&P the rating agency…
The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall Of King Dollar, Part 2
byAs stated in the preceding column, here, eminent labor economist Jared Bernstein recently called, in the New York Times, for the dethroning of “King…
The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall Of King Dollar, Part 1
byThe Wall Street Journal, recently, in The Return of the Greenback, observed that “the resurgent dollar has logged its longest winning streak in 17…