Debt limit nonsense
Some things are stated as fact which are nothing of the kind. Right up until the Congressional deal raising the debt ceiling news anchors…
Read MoreOctober, 2013
The adverse effects of monetary stimulation
A number of people have asked me to expand on how the rapid expansion of money supply leads to an effect the opposite of…
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Money printing: not what it was
There are lots of reasons why QE hasn’t yet created inflation in the rich West… SO HEADLINE writers everywhere got to say money really…
Read MoreThe Selfish Gene and human cooperation
It took me until my 43rd year to read The Selfish Gene, written in 1976 by Richard Dawkins. In many respects, it is a testament…
Read MoreWhy is JPMorgan so quick to agree to a $13B fine?
A Bloomberg appearance by Gordon Kerr, Cobden Centre advisory board member and founder of Cobden Partners Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Gordon Kerr, consultant at…
Read MoreChina and gold
China is now overtly pushing for the US dollar to be replaced as the world’s reserve currency. Xinhua, China’s official press agency on Sunday ran…
Read MoreHow much longer will the dollar be the reserve currency?
We use the term “reserve currency” when referring to the common use of the dollar by other countries when settling their international trade accounts….
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That US debt ceiling and the Fed
We are now into a second week of a partial Federal Government shut-down, which is causing considerable concern, centred on the Government’s ability to…
Read More40 years later: Mises’s lasting legacy
Each year in early October, the world looks to Sweden and Norway, where the annual Nobel Prize winners are announced in the fields of…
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The four words that define western economic policy
“The goods and services traded on the semi-secretive website Silk Road since February 2011 with the virtual currency Bitcoins were so varied that the…
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