FT.com – Traders make $8bn bet against euro
byThe Financial Times has an item up about the weight of investor pressure to sell the euro, taking the view, no doubt, that the…
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On the Independent Institute
byOne of my favorite think tanks in the world is the Independent Institute www.independent.org. Their web site, scholarly journal and work is of the highest…
Do it for the money
byLast year two police women (WPCs) were discovered to have a reciprocal child-minding arrangement. It was initially declared unlawful. Child minders who receive payment…
Giants fighting in a sandbox
byEven gold is no guarantee to hold value when bloated government currencies compete as to which one can inflate the most. The current problems…
Jesus Heurta De Soto for Nobel Prize in Economics
byI like this proactive thinking from TCC’s Consultant Communications Manager, Antoine Clarke. He is promoting a Facebook page about a campaign to get outstanding…
An image to behold
byOccasionally, in this globally interconnected world of ours, one comes across an image that says so much. I was sent this photograph yesterday by that great…
A day of reckoning: how to end the banking crisis now
byDrawing on the work of Nobel Laureates in economics from three traditions, plus numerous other distinguished scholars, Cobden Centre Chairman, economist and successful entrepreneur…
FT.com – Ofgem urges shake-up of energy market
byVia FT.com, Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market, Sweeping reforms of the UK’s energy market must be brought in urgently to protect energy supplies,…
Moneyweek: Japan leads the way… through a minefield
byOver at Moneyweek, Bill Bonner argues in a subscriber-only article that ersatz money is a flop. Bonner describes John Law‘s disastrous paper money scheme…
Hayek vs. Keynes
byVia www.zerohedge.com and econstories.tv, the choice in economics explained through rap: Also Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online