Central bank policies and the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises
byThere were a lot of commentaries regarding the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises. Most of the commentaries were confined to the description of…
The Keynesians’ new clothes
byIt might seem like yesterday to some but it was already in 2009 that politicians in Europe began to talk about ‘austerity’, a concept…
Green shoots of a US recovery?
byThere is growing hope in some quarters that economic recovery is at last under way in the USA. Is this just an election-inspired pick-up…
Doug French’s top 10 books on money
byMy latest GoldMoney podcast, this time with Mr Doug French: Episode 66: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Doug French about his 10 favourite books written by…
Contra Richard Koo and the Keynesians: it is not about ‘aggregate demand’ but about real prices
byI do not want to waste your time and my energy with shooting down misguided Keynesian schemes all the time, schemes that have been…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … Congressman!
byAmericans just cast ballots for president, for the House, and for a third of the U.S. Senate, plus various local offices and referenda in…
Plus ça change
byConveniently coming just in time for the crucial Party conference, the official China PMI index inched above the 50-level watershed and so was enough…
Guido Hülsmann on Mises’s invaluable legacy
byDownload audio file: Guido Hülsmann on Mises’ invaluable legacy (29:45 min) Episode 63: 2012 marks the centennial of the publication of one of the Austrian School of economics’…
My kind of town (Chicago?)
byQuite a bit of media attention has been devoted recently to a working paper by two International Monetary Fund economists that re-examines the “Chicago…
Thomas Jacob on the Swiss Gold Franc Association
byDownload audio file: Thomas Jacob on the Swiss Gold Franc Association GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan interviews Thomas Jacob, President of the Swiss Gold Franc Association –…