Crisis? What Crisis?
by[The following is a shortened version of an original which first appeared on the author’s website, www.truesinews.com ] As Britain fast approaches what is…
Beyond satire
by“Je ne suis pas Charlie. I am not Charlie, I am not brave enough. “Across the world, and certainly across Twitter, people are showing…
2015: the year of the slump?
by2014 ended with two ominous developments: the strength of the US dollar and a collapse in key commodity prices. It is tempting to view…
Time Horizons And Time Preference
byRecent dollar strength has been a surprise to many but a strong dollar was also a key component of the Asian currency crises of…
A New Year’s Resolution: Becoming a Light of Liberty
byWith the beginning of 2015, what might be a “New Year’s resolution” for a friend of freedom? I would suggest that one answer is…
An odd, non-linear world
by“Sir, John Authers, in Loser’s Game (The Big Read, December 22), could have delved deeply into the flaws in the asset management business as…
The Japanese Deflation Myth and the Yen’s Slump
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Brendan Brown, first appeared at mises.org last year] The slide of the yen since late summer has brought it…
Excerpt from Lord Acton’s “Essays on Freedom and Power”
byThe history of freedom in antiquity NEXT TO religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from…
Falling Interest Causes Falling Profits
byMost people assume that prices move as a result of changes in the money supply. Instead, let’s look at the effect of changes in…
The Occult Wars Of Kim Jong-un, Smaug, Paul Krugman And Gold
byPyongyang, evidence shows, effected a spectacular data breach of Sony Pictures to express its wrath over Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogan’s The Interview, a…