Regulating while Europe burns
byBritain and the Eurozone hover on the Brink of Banking and Monetary Collapse. Our response? More Regulation. The European Central Bank’s head, Jean Claude…
Dear Uncle Sam: the Director’s Cut
byDear Uncle Sam, My mother told me to send thank-you notes promptly. I’ve been remiss, but you know, with my firm’s revenues up 30%…
Peter Schiff: Markets, inflation, China, Buffett, GM
byIn Mr Schiff’s latest back-on-form video blog (17th November), Connecticut’s finest son discusses the recent parabolic ups and downs in the gold market and…
Bloomberg: Fed May Hesitate on More Easing After Critics Question Mandate
byFed May Hesitate on More Easing After Critics Question Mandate It was with a certain wry amusement that I read on Bloomberg about how…
5 lessons to learn from Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story
byChannel 4 recently aired an excellent hour-long program called Britain’s Trillion-Pound Horror Story, discussing the state of the British economy. It revealed the true…
Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics
byI’m delighted to have received a hard copy of the “Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics“. Here’s the blurb: This Handbook looks through the lens…
Douglas Carswell’s Banking Reform Bill published
byThe House of Commons has just published Douglas Carswell’s upcoming bill on banking reform. You can read the PDF here. Douglas Carswell blogs about…
Ireland has opened Pandora’s box
byThe Irish government may have discovered a fatal flaw in the Eurozone central banking system – the discount window. In 2008 the Irish government…
Book Review: ‘The Ethics of Money Production’ by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
byIn these times of Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, calling for a return to the gold standard, it becomes necessary for…
Rockwell: The Gold Standard Never Dies
byA great article by Lew Rockwell: John Maynard Keynes thought he had pretty well killed gold as a monetary standard back in the 1930s….