1989: Competing Currencies Proposed for Europe by the UK Treasury
byVia Note from Her Majesty’s Treasury on EMU (Novembre 1989): The European Council agreed at its meeting in Madrid in June to launch the first…
Max Keiser: The Collapse of the EU and the Rise of the Fourth Reich?
byWith Ireland and Greece et al, falling under the demeaning tutelage of the world government’s IMF and World Bank, the appropriately-named Max Keiser has…
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself – Telegraph
byThe escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. via…
Exorbitant Privilege & Unlearned Lessons
byPace those who have made such a big deal out of Chairman Bernanke’s November 19th speech, but it is hard to find anything therein…
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ireland
byAs the bailout of Ireland begins in earnest, many in the media are asking “What went wrong?”, and coming to some dubious answers. The…
Time to sort out mechanisms to wind up banks
byEurope is trapped in a cycle where debt is being passed round and round in circles – the banks are bust so the Irish…
More monetary policy advice from XtraNormal
byWith the success of the Quantitative Easing Explained video from XtraNormal, an entire cottage-industry seems to have sprung up in creating these kinds of…
Liam Halligan: Plucky Irish felled by the twisted, self-serving logic of the eurozone
byGiven his Irish name and ancestry, you might expect that Liam Halligan has a view on the events in Ireland over the last week…
Jeff Randall: Jailed counterfeiters aren’t a patch on the Bank of England
byThere is a superb article in the Telegraph, this morning, by Jeff Randall. Alas, with his work for Sky television, Mr Randall can only…
Doug French — Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth
byDoug French, the President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a new book just out, to follow Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in…