Hard Money, Soft Metal
bySoft gold prices without hard-money rates? Not for long, says the world’s 40-year unbacked money so far… JUST HOW MUCH ABUSE can soft money…
We may be heading for double dip, but don’t blame the government
byReading the responses to Tuesday’s news that the British economy shrunk by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010 will have left many confused….
Liam Halligan: Bankers regain power as Davos summit ends with a big fudge
byThere is another excellent piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph, from Mr Liam Halligan, summarising the end game situation at the recent Davos power elite…
Robert P. Murphy: Only the Austrians Understand Interest Rates
byAn interesting lecture from Robert P. Murphy, on how time, communication, prices, human time preferences, capital structures, and interest rates, are intimately linked together…
BBC Radio 4: Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!
byCobden Centre readers may want to set their radio clock alarms for 8:30pm on Monday evening, on the 31st of January, when Jamie Whyte…
The ghost of Molinari is alive and well and in the Wall Street Journal
byI have just stumbled across this excellent article in the day before yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. It is not only a good read but,…
Something for the Weekend: Taming the Vampire Squid
byAs Murray Rothbard said in Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty, we must discover who are friends and allies are, as well as…
The Beauty of Being Iceland
byUnder the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the EU allowed the external countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway to enter the ‘levelled’ EU…
The resistance to EU centralization comes from Slovakia
byThe heroes of Europe are to be found in Slovakia. The Slovak government is the only Eurozone government that did not participate in the…
Non-Disclosable Events: G. Edward Griffin On Secret Fed Bailouts in the Credit Crisis
byAlthough I would heartily recommend the entire podcast series of Jim Puplava’s Financial Sense Newshour broadcasts, occasionally some individual programmes become essential listening. One…