No sympathy for Ponzi SMEs – Business Review Europe
byIn an op ed for Business Review Europe, I challenge the conventional wisdom on the importance of the SME sector. The unintended consequence of…
Economics
Bill Laggner: US government is running the US markets
byLaissez faire means: Let the common man choose and act; do not force him to yield to a dictator. Ludwig von Mises, page 730,…
Cowen: Mutual Fund Banking
byProfessor Tyler Cowen in 1990 was writing about reforming the banking system based along mutual lines. If he had been listened to back then,…
Jim Rickards: What’s So Wrong With Deflation?
byJim Rickards is the Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, Incorporated, and was interviewed recently by Eric King to discuss the US…
Government spending to decrease? You’re having a laugh!
byBeneath, I explain that, under the condition that the current financial system is not restructured, the proportion of the economy run by government, rather…
UK Think Tank Urges Radical Change To Financial Regulation, Says Axe The FSA
byOver at WealthBriefing.com, Tom Burroughes proposes a radical change to the way financial services are regulated in this country: Much of the UK’s financial…
Pierre Lassonde: Gold correction is nothing to worry about
byThe recent decline in the gold price has sent a few tremors through the gold bugs of the world, though it may be nothing…
Peter Schiff: Dollar decline, yen, oil, inflation, Fed, stimulus
byFollowing up on his earlier video report, Peter Schiff continues his discussion on the decline of the Dollar, which has now fallen to a…
The Cat is out of the Bag
byTim Congdon’s recent article, for the excellent Critical Reaction website, illustrates only too clearly the MPC’s complacent disregard for its remit to target inflation at 2%.
Peter Schiff: Dollar, Fed, GDP, Japan, Bailouts
byIn a recent video commentary, Peter Schiff discusses the comments by the President of the St Louis Federal Reserve, James Bullard, calling for more…