Radical Decentralization: Liechtenstein’s Quiet Revolution
[This article was first published in German in Schweizer Monat, 5 August 2026] The world’s highest per-capita incomes are found in small political units—such…
Financial Repression Is Back, As Euro Debasement Continues
In June 2024, the European Central Bank (ECB) began lowering its key interest rate. Borrowing costs were reduced from 4.5 per cent to 2.5…
The Return of Negative Real Yields in the Euro Area
While negative real yields are currently no longer an issue for many investors, they are becoming a pressing topic once again, especially for those…
On The Importance of Ideas. Or: How Immanuel Kant Protects Us From Intellectual Slavery
By Thorsten Polleit In this article, I will be discussing the fact that ideas are something profoundly important for us; that it is ideas…
The Vampire Fiat Money System: How It Works and What It Means for Your Wealth
Who doesn’t know them: the blood-sucking vampires, the eerie undead, immortalized in countless films, and inspired primarily by Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Just think of…
A Primer On Value – for non-investing and investing man
„Value is … the importance that individual goods or quantities of goods attain for us because we are conscious of being dependent on command…
Hayek’s ‘Denationalization Of Money’. Some critical remarks
Lecture by Thorsten Polleit at the Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham. I. The title of my talk is “Hayek’s ‘Denationalization Of Money’….
THE WORLD’S FIAT MONEY REGIME UNDER PRESSURE. THE VALUE PROPOSITION FOR GOLD
By Thorsten Polleit 1. We live in a fiat money regime. The US dollar, the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen, the British…
Rising Interest Rates and the “Great Reset” Bubble
Even though many deny it, the “Great Reset” exists, referring to a set of ideas that range from “stakeholder capitalism” to “wokeness” and “fourth…
Antony C. Sutton’s “The War On Gold” Revisited
By Thorsten Polleit I. Antony C. Sutton (1925-2002) was a British economist and economic historian who taught in the US, at California State University….