Economics

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Two themes and a variation

by Sean Corrigan

Around the start of the year, in the course of a routine set of market overviews which we have to set out twice a…

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by Toby Baxendale

This is a documentary that is long overdue, written from the perspective of the Austrian School. These are the economists of Business Cycle Theory…

12 July 12<12 July 12

by Lewis Lehrman

A view from America … The economic crisis we endure today is only the latest chapter in the century-long struggle to restore financial order…

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by Dr Frank Shostak

On July 3 2012 The Economist raised the issue of whether the Fed can do more to support the US economy given the fact…

10 July 12<10 July 12

by Detlev Schlichter

On page two of today’s Wall Street Journal Europe you will find the result of a readers’ poll from last Friday; Question: will the…

10 July 12<10 July 12

by Damien Phillips

Now that we are being engulfed by the LIBOR scandal and find that the Bank of England was heavily involved (shock horror), perhaps it…

9 July 12<9 July 12

by Sean Corrigan

Last week it was announced that Beijing was reversing an earlier decision to allow local governments to issue their own bonds, causing eyebrows to…

8 July 12<7 July 12

by Alasdair Macleod

The LIBOR scandal has been hogging headlines of late, with questions raised again about the extent to which big banks are now a law…

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by Detlev Schlichter

In the present debate on the Euro crisis, Germany is frequently portrayed as a model of economic strength, a beacon of fiscal prudence and…

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by Andrew Osborne

I often hear the free market being compared to the dangerous African plains, with predators waiting to spoil your every endeavour and rob you…