Niall Ferguson on the rise of China
byEpisode 69: Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson talks to GoldMoney’s Alasdair Macleod about global politics, with special emphasis on China’s prospects and challenges in the years ahead. They…
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Cobden Centre Radio: Douglas Carswell MP on The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy
byAre democracy and sound money incompatible? Many people think they are but Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton, begs to differ. Indeed, he has begged…
Understanding Asian gold demand
byThere is growing awareness that gold is accumulating in Asia. Indians have for a long time been the largest buyers of gold and have…
Some personal thoughts on surviving the monetary meltdown
byLet us start by looking at the economy from 10,000 feet above: After 40 years of boozing on easy money and feasting on fantastical…
Steve Baker MP on sound money
byEpisode 68: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Steve Baker MP, a Conservative backbencher who represents the constituency of Wycombe in the United Kingdom’s House…
“Fool’s Gold” Standards
byIn a recent Mises Daily, “A Golden Opportunity“, Patrick Barron and Godfrey Bloom make the case for Germany to withdraw from the monetary union combined with…
Jeffrey Tucker on the future of private money
byEpisode 67: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan speaks to Jeffrey Tucker, Publisher & Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books and author of It’s a Jetsons World, Bourbon for Breakfast, and A Beautiful…
Central bank policies and the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises
byThere were a lot of commentaries regarding the Ireland and Iceland 2008-12 financial crises. Most of the commentaries were confined to the description of…
The Keynesians’ new clothes
byIt might seem like yesterday to some but it was already in 2009 that politicians in Europe began to talk about ‘austerity’, a concept…
Green shoots of a US recovery?
byThere is growing hope in some quarters that economic recovery is at last under way in the USA. Is this just an election-inspired pick-up…