Profits of doom
Readers who enjoyed my Cui Bono article earlier this week may be interested in this piece from Times Higher Education: Climate change is serious…
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Peter Schiff: Why the Fed won’t raise rates
Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet Mr Schiff opens up his latest…
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Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations
In a recent article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on ‘The Death of Paper Money’, AEP mentioned a book on eBay which the great and the…
Read MoreHuerta De Soto on Entrepreneurship and the Division of Knowledge
The Subjectivist Revolution in Economics Continues Humans act and they act purposefully: this is the axiom of action proposed by Ludwig von Mises, teacher…
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Improper Fractions
No arguments are to be looked at with more suspicion than those which, from the acknowledged impossibility of attaining to perfection, would infer that…
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Mainstream recognition for Austrian school fund manager
Using the insights of the Austrian school, fund manager Tony Deden has consistently performed better than Warren Buffet. In this week’s Money Week, he…
Read MoreCui bono? A dissent upon Mr Grantham
We’ll keep the Green Flag Flying In a recent polemic, the well-regarded investment manager and part-time climate activist, Jeremy Grantham, set out his version…
Read MoreWhy Vince Cable should be both praised and ridiculed for forcing banks to lend
A lifelong friend in a senior position at a major UK bank confirmed to me privately that last week’s news that banks were approving…
Read MorePeter Schiff: Dollar stress, Bernanke, GM, Gold Dealers
The main meat of the latest Peter Schiff video blog discusses the testimony this week of Ben Bernanke in his semi-annual visit to the…
Read MoreEconomic recalculation disrupted
Over at the Library of Economics and Liberty, Arnold Kling has an article on recalculation (reproduced below). The two key things this otherwise highly…
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