Opponents of gold, get on your mark
A good article from Brian Domitrovic on Forbes.com: Let’s face it – we’ve seen what arbitrary government control and central bank manipulation can do….
Toby Baxendale
“Toby Baxendale is an entrepreneur who built up, amongst other things, the UK's largest fresh fish supplier to the Food Service sector, see <a href="http://www.directseafoods.co.uk/">www.directseafoods.co.uk</a>, and recently sold it. Toby is dedicated to furthering the teaching of the Austrian school of economics. He established and funded the 1st Distinguished Hayek Visiting Teaching Fellowship Program at the LSE in Honour of the Nobel Laureate F A Hayek. Toby is Chairman of The Cobden Centre. Richard Cobden's timeless principles of the abolition of legal privilege of the few at the expense of the many are worthy in this day and age to promote.
Bandits with begging bowls
A recent CNBC article by Catherine Boyle has some classic quotes from Sean Corrigan: The euro zone’s banks, seen by many as the source…
The inflationist view of history
This chapter from Human Action is spot on for today: Part 4, Chapter XVII. INDIRECT EXCHANGE 18. The Inflationist View of History A very…
The circular flow of income fallacy
At the Tory Party Conference, the Prime Minister said: The only way out of a debt crisis is to pay off your debts. That’s…
Gingrich adopts gold standard model
American Principles Project: Washington, D.C.–Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for “hard money with a very limited Federal Reserve” at…
The Magicians at the Bank of England (with close support from No 10 & 11 Downing Street)
Who made this very sound statement two years ago in relation to QE I? The last resort of desperate governments when all other policies…
Daniel Hannan on our money-printing masters
As we feared, the wise men at the Bank of England have decided that what our ailing economy needs is another dose of QE….
Do nothing: a positive proposal for recovery
It was recently pointed out to me that certain free market orientated friends dislike policies that fail to restore immediate growth: Basic economic theory…
How deposit insurance reduces financial stability
Andrew Lilico has written a great article for The Telegraph on the dangers of deposit insurance: In a classic 2005 paper from the highly…
We love Terry Smith!
A great letter to the editor of the FT from Terry Smith: Sir, I refer to the debate being conducted in the pages of…