Honest Savings and Dishonest Money
byProf J Guido Hülsmann of the University of Angers gave a private talk on the 10th of July called “Honest Savings and Dishonest Money”…
A ‘Cobdenian’ Solution to Seeking Work
byIt was Richard Cobden’s view that “Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less….
Are we experiencing Malflation?
byInflation This is a fall in the value of the purchasing power of money. Deflation This is an increase in the value of the…
Calls for further monetary expansion are cuckoo
byIn today’s Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives a splendid analysis of the dire fiscal problems facing the developed economies, but a dreadful analysis of their…
A Monetarist whitewash from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
byAn entertaining article, choc-a-bloc with Monetarist whitewash, in The Telegraph today. Apparently Jean Claude Trichet is “inflicting a triple shock of fiscal, monetary and…
Peter Schiff: Dollar rout, CNBC, Fin Reg
byWith the Dollar cratering this week, the last shoe in Peter Schiff’s Austrian-based prediction set from 2007 may finally be dropping. In his latest…
Economic vandals
byShortly after taking power, our new coalition government decided to withdraw the previous government’s pre-election promise of a £80 million loan to Sheffield Forgemasters,…
Peter Schiff: Dollar, credit ratings, China, short-term debt
byIn the latest Peter Schiff videoblog (July 12th), Mr Schiff thinks we are entering the economic lull before the storm and that the Dollar…
The Battle of the Letters: Keynes v Hayek 1932, Skidelsky v Besley 2010
byWe are delighted to bring you a great letter exchange from history where in public debate Keynes traded economic blows with Hayek over causes…
Daniel Hannan: Teach yourself free market economics in two hours
byDaniel Hannan MEP, of The Daily Telegraph, is as impressed by the Schiff Brothers’ new book as we were, when we first reviewed it…