What is behind the predictive power of the yield curve?
byAfter rising to 3.33% in March, the differential between the 10-year US Treasury Note and the federal funds rate eased to 3.07% at the…
Economics
The privileged few have eaten everybody else’s lunch
byAnother great interview with Sean Corrigan on CNBC Airtime: Mon. Jul. 18 2011 | 7:00 AM ET Big US banks should have been allowed…
Engaging friends from the Balkans and Eastern Europe
byThis morning, I addressed on behalf of TCC twenty young people at a ‘Balkans and Eastern Europe Regional Youth Conference’, hosted in London. Under…
AEP: Return of the Gold Standard as world order unravels
byCobden Centre readers may find it heartening that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is now showing an interest in hard money: On one side of the Atlantic,…
A return to stop-go?
byAs the Fed’s QE-II programme was first announced and then implemented in the early autumn of last year, more and more elements of the…
Divinely comical
by“Italy, long a bystander to the euro-zone’s debt woes, was thrust into the eye of the storm on Monday, as investors fled the country’s…
Swiss Parliament to discuss gold franc
byFollowing our Cobden Centre Radio interview last week with Thomas Jacob, and his plans to use a democratic Swiss plebiscite to re-introduce a Swiss…
The Streets of Vienna
byA street in Vienna is called a gasse, strasse or platz. There are a few of them named after people who aren’t so popular…
Mark Thornton: Austrian economics versus mainstream economics
byThe excellent Mark Thornton discusses how Austrian economics – the oldest continuous school of economics – both differs from the more recent mathematical mainstream…
Rob Arnott: QE, Fed, inflation, Weimar Germany, investor confidence & more
byMany of us in the mad-eyed gold bug community subscribe to King World News, to seek out affirmation for our crazy lopsided view of…