Winds of change
byIn what has been the most symbolic gesture of his short term in power, incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping last week made Shenzhen the…
A matter of interest – part 2
byContinued from Part 1 … To recap the lesson we have drawn here: if there is a great urgency about demand for the means of…
Bernanke loosens further the monetary stance
byOn Wednesday December 12, 2012 Fed policy makers announced that they will boost their main stimulus tool by adding $45 billion of monthly Treasury…
A matter of interest – part 1
byIn the bank’s most recent report on the troubles currently afflicting the Ozzie mining boom, ANZ made the following pertinent observation:- While most first-generation…
Jeff Berwick on how to deal with government controls
byEpisode 80: Andy Duncan talks to Jeff Berwick, founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services, and the host of Anarchast….
The curse of the reserve currency
byIs reserve currency status an economic blessing or a curse? The answer might seem obvious, as reserve currencies have been shown to confer lower…
What’s wrong about the euro, and what is not
byEvery Monday morning the readers of the UK’s Daily Telegraph are treated to a sermon on the benefits of Keynesian stimulus economics, the dangers of belt-tightening…
German gold
byThe greatest threat to worldwide prosperity is the collapse of what remains of free-market capitalism. Not depletion of scarce natural resources. Not environmental degradation….
Godfrey Bloom MEP on Germany’s “golden opportunity”
byEpisode 73: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan talks to Godfrey Bloom, who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in the European Parliament, and who is a member of…
BBC Newsnight uses The Cobden Centre to flag up need to slash UK state
byI am delighted that TCC Senior Fellow, Dr. Jamie Whyte, was on Friday’s edition of the BBC flagship programme, Newsnight: Tonight: turning crisis into…