The geopolitics of gold
byWestern central banks have got themselves horribly wrong-footed as a result of not adjusting their anti-gold policies to allow for the realities of Asian…
Economics
Losing the loser’s game
by“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a…
Introducing The Journal of Prices & Markets
byLudwig von Mises once wrote that all of economics can be neatly summed up in one of two studies: either you are studying how…
Regulating banks the Austrian way
byMost people — from young to old and from all ends of the political spectrum — are united by a common bond. The idea…
Bank balances and gold
byThere has been a growing shift in favour of assets relative to bank deposits. This was initially encouraged by zero interest rates, but more…
Gold is money not because it is scarce but because it is abundant
byThe Honorable Ron Paul says: Why is gold good money? Because it possesses all the monetary properties that the market demands: it is divisible,…
Is loose fiscal policy the missing ingredient for US economic recovery?
byIn his New York Times article of May 7, columnist Bruce Bartlett laments that given the current state of economic affairs we need more…
The tulip harvest is in!
by“When the cover of a major financial magazine features a cartoon of a bull leaping through the air on a pogo stick, it’s probably…
Monetisation on steroids
byBack in mid-March I made the latest of my somewhat rare specific, near-term market predictions, in this case that a US stock market correction…
New Laissez Faire Books release: Early Speculative Bubbles
byLaissez Faire Books have just released a splendid new edition of Doug French’s book, Early Speculative Bubbles, previously published by Mises.org. So how do I know this book…