Nowhere to run
byJames Tyler’s recent comments about the negative Swiss interbank rates reminded me of a discussion I had with a private-client lawyer in London yesterday….
Stephan Kinsella goes from strength to strength
byBack in 1995, I came across this fabulous journal article written by Stephan Kinsella called Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free…
Apparently the BBC is having a bit of an Austrian boom
byAs I understand it, BBC Radio 4 bosses liked the recent Keynes versus Hayek debate so much that they are now planning to repeat…
Where is the US stock market heading?
byA report from America, previously published at Mises.org On Monday, August 8, the S&P 500 stock-price index fell 6.7 percent to close at 1,119.46….
Implosion of fiat monetary system continues
byYesterday’s stop losses were triggered in the Euro Swiss LIBOR futures market. After briefly touching 100 on Tuesday (Interest rate futures are priced as…
Assume for the sake of argument that there were missed opportunities, now what?
byDuring the financial crisis, my perspective has been hardened that the classical economist and even a hard nosed version of Austrianism is the appropriate…
Charles Moore reviews Keynes vs Hayek
byI was pleased to see the LSE’s recent Hayek vs Keynes debate picked up by Charles Moore at The Telegraph: The Hayekians, led by…
Are we doomed?
byWith so much bad news from the financial markets, it is becoming difficult to see the wood for the trees. This is my attempt…
Jamie Whyte discusses QE on Radio 4
byThe Cobden Centre’s Jamie Whyte appeared on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning to discuss the prospect of further quantitative easing in the US and…
The Condensed Wealth of Nations and the incredibly condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments
byAdam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is without doubt one of the most important books ever written. For it recognised that economic specialisation and…