Peter Schiff: Weak economy, Fed ease, China, WWIII
byIn a somewhat startlingly-named new video blog, Mr Schiff begins by discussing inflation trends within the US, with reference to Ben Bernanke and the…
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Honest Savings and Dishonest Money
byProf J Guido Hülsmann of the University of Angers gave a private talk on the 10th of July called “Honest Savings and Dishonest Money”…
Are we experiencing Malflation?
byInflation This is a fall in the value of the purchasing power of money. Deflation This is an increase in the value of the…
Calls for further monetary expansion are cuckoo
byIn today’s Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives a splendid analysis of the dire fiscal problems facing the developed economies, but a dreadful analysis of their…
A Monetarist whitewash from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
byAn entertaining article, choc-a-bloc with Monetarist whitewash, in The Telegraph today. Apparently Jean Claude Trichet is “inflicting a triple shock of fiscal, monetary and…
Peter Schiff: Dollar rout, CNBC, Fin Reg
byWith the Dollar cratering this week, the last shoe in Peter Schiff’s Austrian-based prediction set from 2007 may finally be dropping. In his latest…
Economic vandals
byShortly after taking power, our new coalition government decided to withdraw the previous government’s pre-election promise of a £80 million loan to Sheffield Forgemasters,…
The Battle of the Letters: Keynes v Hayek 1932, Skidelsky v Besley 2010
byWe are delighted to bring you a great letter exchange from history where in public debate Keynes traded economic blows with Hayek over causes…
Why today’s political class needs Ludwig von Mises
byFollowing the success of our lunchtime event, we’re pleased to announce an evening of Austrian economics at the IEA next Thursday, focusing on the…
The Writing on the Berlin Wall: Pictures of the Socialistic Future
byIf someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, then in…