Cameron’s misguided warning to China
In this article about our Prime Minister’s recent trip to China, the journalist warns us as follows The Prime Minister said China needed to…
The Silver Lining in the Fed’s $600 Billion Decision
A good article from Ryan Streeter The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to buy $600 billion in bonds—another example of the mysteriously named “quantitative easing”—may…
A third way: instant access by exception
Cross posted at Mises.org and The Coordination Problem. Come the Revolution, in a free banking world, where there is at least no lender of…
Hayek vs Keynes @ Buttonwood
Readers, if you saw the first EconStories.tv video of Hayek v Keynes and the explanation of their key contributions in the rap format, then…
Video of Huerta de Soto’s Hayek Lecture
We have previously posted the text of Huerta de Soto’s speech, and an audio recording via Cobden Centre Radio. It was a fantastic event,…
Huerta de Soto pays tribute to Hayek
We were pleased to see this thoughtful and enthusiastic write-up of Huerta de Soto’s Hayek lecture by Andreas Kuersten for the LSE student paper,…
Could the world go back to the gold standard?
Martin Wolf asks “Could the world go back to the gold standard?” During any period of monetary disorder — the 1970s, for example, or…
Banking: From Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again
As reported yesterday on Mises.org, there were some very encouraging statements in Mervyn King’s Monday speech to the Buttonwood Gathering in New York. King…
The Staggering Economic Errors Behind The Policy of Quantitative Easing
In September of last year, I placed this article up on our web site detailing the theoretical errors behind the policy of quantitative easing….
FT: Osborne go-ahead for Bank boost
On the front page of the Financial Times of Saturday the 9th of Oct 2010, under the title “Osborne go-ahead for Bank boost”, we…