How to debate Paul Krugman
byPaul Krugman is the high priest of Keynesianism and modern interventionism, of economic improvement through inflation and budget deficits. As such he is bête…
Economics
Keynesian vs Austrian debate hotting up
byLast week, an Austrian-School economist, Robert Wenzel, gave a speech to the New York Federal Reserve, and separately Bloomberg hosted a television debate between…
Explaining the growing wealth divide
byIn the past year we have witnessed the growing influence and clout of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the States, the St. Paul’s…
The Argentine threat to the world financial system
byAn interesting upcoming event … The All Party Parliamentary Group on Economics, Money and Banking is pleased to invite you to a meeting hosted…
The essence of Ludwig von Mises’s business cycle theory
byIn the slump of a cycle, businesses that were thriving come to experience difficulties or go under. They do so not because of firm-specific…
The politics of fear
by“I’m getting increasingly worried about the free movement of people across Europe. It’s a very competitive world out there and my constituents resent that.”…
Goldilocks goes short
byAt the core of much of our analysis is the contention that the ebb and flow of easy money injections—potentially stimulative in the short…
The separation of money and state
by“So what do you think should be done?” I often get this question after I present my case against our fiat money system, and…
Financial regulators and the free market
byAdam Smith’s great insight was that in a commercial transaction both parties benefit. Before his time, it was generally believed that in an exchange…
On double-dip recession, Tullett Prebon rightly ask “What’s the big idea?”
byThe latest strategy note from Tullet Prebon asks, “What’s the big idea?” with the subtitle “the imperative need for a new ideology”, writing: Effective…