Standard Chartered £3.3bn rights issue
byInteresting news on the wire: 13 October 2010 Standard Chartered PLC RIGHTS ISSUE TO RAISE GBP3.3 BILLION Standard Chartered PLC (“Standard Chartered” or the…
Desai: Building with straws
byMeghnad Desai – Building with straws – Financial Express Though this article suffers from the Ricardian-Marxian cost-of-production fallacy in trying to separate ‘price’ from…
The Staggering Economic Errors Behind The Policy of Quantitative Easing
byIn September of last year, I placed this article up on our web site detailing the theoretical errors behind the policy of quantitative easing….
Tom Woods: Learn Austrian Economics
byIn this crucial time of Keynesian madness, it is essential that everyone who wishes to avoid being wiped out by central planners tries to…
Vienna vs Chicago: Clash of Free-Market Titans
byOn Tuesday the 2nd of November, at 18:30 the IEA will be presenting a lecture by Dr Mark Sousen: Dr Mark Skousen, author of…
FT: Osborne go-ahead for Bank boost
byOn the front page of the Financial Times of Saturday the 9th of Oct 2010, under the title “Osborne go-ahead for Bank boost”, we…
Money supply and the US dollar
byMoney growth differential puts pressure on the US$ At the end of September the price of the Euro in US$ terms closed at 1.357…
Halligan: QE now seen as an aggressive depreciation tool
byAnother superb article from Liam Halligan: While the US has doubled its monetary base over the last 18 months, the UK’s base money supply…
Unreconstructed Keynesianism is alive and well
byIn a recent video interview in the Daily Telegraph (October 7, 2010), Keynes’s biographer, the noted historian Professor Lord Skidelsky, gives us the benefits…
Cobden Centre Radio: Fixing Britain, with Professor Kevin Dowd
byTonight on Cobden Centre Radio I interview Professor Kevin Dowd, a Senior Fellow with the Cobden Centre, and one of Britain’s best known free…