Has the US economy entered a self-sustaining growth path?
byRecent strengthening in some key US economic data has prompted many economic commentators to suggest that the US economy may have entered upon a…
Are German Dilemmas Causing European Problems?
byThe European monetary union is being held together tenuously. After putting €110bn. on the line to save Greece earlier this year, the tab increased…
ConservativeHome, Steve Baker MP: The greatest threat to civilisation is not climate change but bad economics
byOver at ConservativeHome, I have set out the case that The greatest threat to civilisation is not climate change but bad economics: Unfortunately, an…
Ben Davies: Gold, Defaults & A New Brady Bunch
byBen Davies, of Hinde Capital, discusses his latest 22-page report with Eric King, in the cogent and persuasive 18-minute interview below. Davies discusses how…
Howard Marks: All That Glitters
byOn this cold and snowy English Sunday, with many Cobden Centre readers tucked up for Christmas with possibly only one last difficult food shopping…
John Williams: The US is heading for hyperinflation
byIf you haven’t subscribed yet, one of the best podcasted programmes out there in ‘Austro-World’, is the Financial Sense Newshour, with Jim Puplava. With…
Peter Schiff: Commodities, dollar, interest rates, chinese inflation, U.S. deficits
byThe Austrian money manager, Mr Peter Schiff is back with another one of his Schiff reports. In this YouTube he tries to seek out…
In defence of the Euro
byMoney has a specific role in economic affairs – the facilitation of specialisation, trade and exchange. Sure, money has a fantastic set of ancillary…
Contagious Defaults?
byMohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO, the world’s largest bond investment management group, recently made a compelling plea for “urgent EU action” to stop a…
Moving Forward with Practical Reform – from Positive Money
byPositive Money is a growing campaign for ‘Honest Money’, although I suspect that some readers on this blog may challenge our definition of honest…