The Japanese Deflation Myth and the Yen’s Slump
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Brendan Brown, first appeared at mises.org last year] The slide of the yen since late summer has brought it…
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Falling Interest Causes Falling Profits
byMost people assume that prices move as a result of changes in the money supply. Instead, let’s look at the effect of changes in…
The Real Fed Tug Of War: the Yellen Doctrine vs. the Volcker Doctrine
byThe financial markets are on a hair trigger as to when, and how quickly, the Fed will tighten and raise interest rates. Billions of…
We seem to have miscalculated
by“What will futurity make of the Ph.D. standard ? Likely, it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the…
Deflating the Inflation Myth
by[Editor’s Note; this interview, with Cobden Centre contributor Jesus Huerta de Soto, was by Malte Fischer of Handelsblatt] Professor Huerta de Soto, the inflation…
How the ‘Reserve’ Dollar Harms America
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Lewis E. Lehrman And John D. Mueller, first appeared in the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-the-reserve-dollar-harms-america-1416527644. It was kindly brought to…
Segregated Cash Accounts
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by John Cochrane, first appeared here http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.ie/2014/11/segregated-cash-accounts.html] An important little item from the just released minutes of the October Federal…
Russia’s monetary solution
byThe hypothesis that follows, if carried through, is certain to have a significant effect on gold and the relationship between gold and all government-issued…
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…
Money Creation and Society Debate in Full
by[Editor’s Note: The “Money Creation and Society” debate, which took place in the UK Parliament on Thursday the 20th November 2014, is shown below…