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Living Dangerously
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A Forerunner of the Austrian School in Nineteenth-Century Spain
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Baku Summit: A Shared Future
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IFT and Cobden Centre Video Series on Free Trade: Food Security
James Madison’s Essay on Money
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Central Banking: It’s alive!!
In his recent posting on Linked In, entitled, ‘The death of macro-prudential’, Stuart Trow of the EBRD delivered a well-aimed broadside at the pitiable…
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The Role of Shadow Banking in the Business Cycle
By Arkadiusz Sieroń 1The process of lending and the uninterrupted flow of credit to the real economy no longer rely only on banks, but…
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Should the Fed print money to accommodate demand for money?
For most economists and commentators the main role of the Fed is to keep the supply and demand for money in equilibrium. Whenever an…
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The Myth that Central Banks Assure Economic Stability
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IFT & Cobden Centre Video Series on Free Trade
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Does subjective valuation mean arbitrary valuation?
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Tariff Walls and Trade Wars Equal Government Planning
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Italy and the repricing of European government debt
The yield spread between 10yr BTPs and Bunds widened 114bp in May Populist and anti-EU politics were the catalyst for this repricing of…
China is in Trouble
By Ronald-Peter Stöferle Mark J. Valek Before we discuss the economic situation of China, a few words about China’s strongman, Xi Jinping. The “new…
Living Dangerously
Regular readers of Goldmoney’s Insights should be aware by now that the cycle of business activity is fuelled by monetary policy, and that the periodic booms…
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James Madison’s Essay on Money
The following is by James Madison, the primary author of the US Constitution and fourth president. For those who wish to get a…
The Case for A Gold Currency Part 2: Wages and Growth: Higher Under Classical Gold Standard
By Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
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