Innovation is the secret of economic success
byInnovation is the secret of economic success – The Telegraph – George Osborne and Eric Schmidt The assertion that dynamism and innovation are crucial…
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Robin Griffiths: The Fed is Zimbabweanising the Dollar
by Andy DuncanThe admirable Robin Griffiths, of Cazenove Capital, was interviewed again recently by Eric King, on King World News. Following some messages, the actual interview begins…
Video of Huerta de Soto’s Hayek Lecture
by Toby BaxendaleWe have previously posted the text of Huerta de Soto’s speech, and an audio recording via Cobden Centre Radio. It was a fantastic event,…
The Death of Money
by Sean CorriganSo the Bernanke Fed has finally launched its next great economic experiment, undertaking to buy some $600 billion in US Treasuries over the next…
Jörg Guido Hülsmann: The Ethics of Money Production
by Andy DuncanIn these times of quantitative easing, where $600 billion dollars is slipped into existence in the middle of a dull paragraph, in a dull…
Huerta de Soto pays tribute to Hayek
by Toby BaxendaleWe were pleased to see this thoughtful and enthusiastic write-up of Huerta de Soto’s Hayek lecture by Andreas Kuersten for the LSE student paper,…
Proof That the Banking System in its Present Format Cannot be Regulated
by Gordon KerrConsider two points: Last Week Mervyn King said in a now famous speech in Manhattan that of all the banking systems it is possible…
Could the world go back to the gold standard?
by Toby BaxendaleMartin Wolf asks “Could the world go back to the gold standard?” During any period of monetary disorder — the 1970s, for example, or…
Debt delusion indeed
by Bruno PriorCan I steal from myself? Of course not. Further, I cannot hold too much of my own stolen property. My future plans to dispose…
What Austrian business cycle theory does and does not claim as true
by Anthony J. EvansIn May I linked to an article I wrote over at the IEA blog: What Austrian business cycle theory does and does not claim…