Robert Wenzel: The parallels of Soviet Russia and modern day America
Another one of my interviews for GoldMoney Foundation, this time with Robert Wenzel, of Economic Policy Journal, on the subject of his Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture at…
Read MoreMarch, 2013
The two meetings
Besides the ongoing troubles in the eurozone, the other burning issue for investors is, of course, what will emerge from the just-concluded ‘Two Meetings’…
Read MoreCyprus and banking
This is democracy in the European Union. Last week the Cypriot parliament voted down a proposal to secure the €10 billion funding needed to…
Read MoreGood riddance to deposit ‘insurance’
Once the public furor and shrill media coverage have died down it will become clear that events in Cyprus did not mark the death…
Read MoreAnatomy of the bank run
This article by Murray Rothbard was recently featured at Mises.org. It originally appeared in the September, 1985 edition of The Free Market. It was a scene…
Read MoreAuflockerung avoided
Cyprus may or may not prove to be a ‘watershed’ for the European crisis but what we can say for now (tempting fate outrageously…
Read MoreA Greek tragedy
“In money management what sells is illusion of certainty. The truth (i.e. we don’t know much) is a more difficult sale, but a better…
Read MoreMonetary activism must end in a slump
On Friday, I spoke against monetary activism once again, complaining about the use of expectation management and new monetary instruments in an attempt to…
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2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months: A proposal for sound money
In light of recent events, we’re bringing forward this proposal from June 2010. There’s two ways to view the financial meltdown that occurred in…
Read MoreEurope’s accounting rules are destroying its banks
Late last year, a group of institutional investors sent a letter to officials in Brussels, warning that European Union accounting standards are “destabilizing banks”…
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