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Simple Janet has attained a new milestone as a public menace with her speech to the Economic Club of New York. It amounted to yelling “stay” in a burning theater!…
“By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.” Frédéric Bastiat. It remains one of the most powerful metaphors in…
The negative interest rates imposed by the Bank of Japan have begun to make their way into the Japanese banking system. Japanese trust banks…
Nobel economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is fond of mocking his critics for being ideologues rather than economists. In contrast, Krugman’s…
Another month, another flight to Hamad international airport for 17th April after initial agreement to hold ‘upstream horses’ in February 2016. While it’s no…
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, with a phalanx of lawmakers behind them, continue to bash China as a “currency manipulator.” Both men…
With Japanese and Eurozone interest rates becoming increasingly negative, and the Fed backing off from at least some of the planned increases in the…
“It is because the public are a mass – inert, obtuse and passive – that they need to be shaken up from time to…
That usually perceptive and always interesting observer of the financial Zeitgeist, Bloomberg’s estimable Mark Gilbert, has just penned an article entitled: “Milton Friedman’s ‘Helicopter…
The following, by Max Rangeley and Steve Baker MP, was published by Moneyweek’s Fleet Street Newsletter http://www.fleetstreetletter.co.uk/. Over the previous half century, economic central…