Ludwig von Mises and the a priori approach to economics
byCobden Centre Senior Fellow Detlev Schlichter has published the text of a recent talk about the a priori approach of Ludwig von Mises to…
Economics
Whatever happened to the rate of interest?
byAccording to the French historian Fernand Braudel, to understand the present we should master the whole of world history. The same may be said…
Baker on Bitcoin, Britain and Banking (video)
bySteve Baker has given an interview at the Antigua Forum on Bitcoin, Britain and Banking. The Forum is an annual gathering of market-liberal reformers from…
Paper Money Collapse 2nd edition teaser
byOne of the interesting things that happened at the End of the World Club on Monday evening, was a teaser of what’s new about…
A response to Huber
byEditor’s Note: Austrian Economics and New Currency Theory on 100% banking – A response to Huber, by Philipp Bagus, is an important response to the New…
Madness!
by“Central bankers control the price of money and therefore indirectly influence every market in the world. Given this immense power, the ideal central banker…
‘The system has spun out of control’
byBook Review: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System by James Rickards The title will no doubt give Cobden…
ECB embraces QE faulty logic
byEditor’s note: this article, under the title “No end to central bank meddling as ECB embraces ‘quantitative easing’, faulty logic” appears on Detlev Schlichter’s…
Money derivative creation in the modern economy
byIt isn’t often that a Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin starts “A revolution in how we understand economic policy” but, according to some, that…
“Everything we are told about deflation is a lie”
by“The European Central Bank has given its strongest signal yet that it is prepared to embrace quantitative easing to prevent the euro zone from…