The Untouchable Case for Indian Capitalism
byAn excellent article from B. Chandrasekaran for the Wall Street Journal: The plight of the Dalits, those whom the Hindu caste system considers outcastes…
Five Days to Save Britain’s Taxpayers from the Consequences of False Accounting
by Gordon KerrAs things move on, it looks as if pressure is mounting for Parliament to have its Second Reading of Steve Baker’s Bill on 10th…
Toby Baxendale: Honest Banking in the UK
by Andy DuncanJeffrey Tucker, of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, interviews Toby Baxendale about honest banking in the UK, the Cobden Centre, and the spread of…
Et in Academia ego
by Sean CorriganIn a recent TV appearance, the author was briefly joined on air by a US professor full of the Manichean certitudes only a member…
Telegraph: Banks buy bulk of £39.8bn of new gilts
by Toby BaxendaleThe Telegraph reports: Banks bought 91pc of the £39.8bn of net issuance of new gilts with purchases totalling £36.1bn, compared to the £11.4bn of…
At Last, the Death of Politics
by Detlev SchlichterFor over a year now the Eurocracy has tried to put Humpty-Dumpty together again, to somehow restore belief in the solvency of the European…
The Economist’s Perfectly Useless Gold
by Paul TustainWould you – or China – rather own gold 8 years from now, or US Treasury bonds…? ON THE LETTERS’ page of The Economist…
Financial regulation and the deception of government intervention
by Steve BakerFrom Deception of Government Intervention (1964) – an essay in Mises’ anthology Economic Freedom and Interventionism – we learn how governments adopted “the third way”: Faced…
Selgin on the history of 100% reserve banks
by Anthony J. EvansGeorge Selgin is well known for having conducted detailed empirical work on the history and emergence of free banking. Most of his contributions have…
Why has George Soros sold his gold?
by Patrick CrozierI am something of a gold bug, believing that gold (and silver) represent the best way to preserve wealth in inflationary times as well…