Peter Schiff: The markets and the Fed
byMr Schiff discusses the once-supposed monetary exit plan for the Federal Reserve, which he predicted last year that they would never actually execute. This…
Insight
Thomas Moore and the Bullionist Controversy
byIt is with great pleasure that whilst looking into the “Bullionist Controversy”, when there was a move to get England back to having a…
John Hathaway: The end game for paper currency
byJohn Hathaway is a senior managing director and portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management, specialising in the Tocqueville Gold Fund. Mr Hathaway recently wrote…
Grossly Distorted Product
byIt should not come as a shock to readers of your author’s musings to learn that he views the mindless, repetitive, near-valueless kerfuffle which…
Can Malaysia’s Islamic gold dinar thwart CRONY CORPORATE capitalism?
byI am grateful to the great American Libertarian legal scholar Stephan Kinsella for pointing this article out to me from our very own dear…
Are “normal” businesses 100% reserved?
byWhen discussing the “fraudulent” nature of fractional-reserve banking, the crux of the issue seems to be how the law distinguishes between banks and other…
Alongside Night
byIn an article earlier this week, Andy Duncan mentioned a gem of a novel about this potential paper money breakdown scenario by J. Neil…
Bill Laggner: US government is running the US markets
byLaissez faire means: Let the common man choose and act; do not force him to yield to a dictator. Ludwig von Mises, page 730,…
Cowen: Mutual Fund Banking
byProfessor Tyler Cowen in 1990 was writing about reforming the banking system based along mutual lines. If he had been listened to back then,…
Jim Rickards: What’s So Wrong With Deflation?
byJim Rickards is the Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, Incorporated, and was interviewed recently by Eric King to discuss the US…