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Detlev Schlichter

Detlev Schlichter

Detlev S. Schlichter is a writer and Austrian School economist. He had a 19-year career in financial markets as a derivatives trader and investment manager during which he worked for J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Western Asset Management. In 2009 he resigned from a senior position in the City of London to focus exclusively on his first book, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1118095758/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thecobcen-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1118095758"><i>Paper Money Collapse – The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown</i></a>.

Economics31 August 13<31 August 13

Markets reject ‘forward guidance’ – for good reason

The British media is obsessed with Mark Carney, the new boss at the Bank of England, who, this week, made his first public appearance…

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Economics12 August 13<12 August 13

Money demand and banking – some challenges for the “Free Bankers”

Within the Austrian School of Economics there has long been disagreement and therefore occasionally fierce debate about the nature and consequences of fractional-reserve banking,…

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Economics6 July 13<6 July 13

Forward Guidance? – Nonsense! Central bankers have no choice.

After two decades of serial bubble-blowing, the world’s central bankers have maneuvered themselves into a corner. They created a monster in the form of…

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Economics22 June 13<22 June 13

End of QE? – I don’t buy it

A new meme is spreading in financial markets: the Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. US Printmaster General Ben Bernanke announced…

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Economics13 June 13<13 June 13

Roubini attacks the gold bugs

Earlier this month, in an article for “Project Syndicate” famous American economist Nouriel Roubini joined the chorus of those who declare that the multi-year run up…

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Economics7 June 13<7 June 13

Are central bankers losing control?

The last couple of weeks have been very interesting. Remember that, certain regional differences aside, Japan has, for the past two-plus decades, been the…

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Economics11 May 13<11 May 13

Is present monetary policy rational?

While the stance of monetary policy around the world has, on any conceivable measure, been extreme, by which I mean unprecedentedly accommodative, the question…

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The Corruption of Capitalism in America
Economics2 May 13<1 May 13

The Corruption of Capitalism in America

Following on from John Butler’s review, here’s Detlev’s take on “The Great Deformation” … David Stockman’s new book is a brilliant, penetrating analysis of the present state…

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Economics24 April 13<23 April 13

Could Bitcoin be the money of the future?

The crypto-currency Bitcoin is still merely a speck on the global monetary landscape. It is young, experimental, and for all we know, it may…

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Economics17 April 13<17 April 13

Gold sell-off: there is only one question that matters

Last Friday I participated in a (very short) debate on BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme on the future direction of gold. Tom Kendall, global head of…

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