Material Evidence – Recovery or crisis?
Sean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: the declaration of the end of the recession vs cries of crisis, the role of business spending, new money, the…
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Material Evidence – Back to the 70s
Sean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: US unemployment, the UK’s staggering recovery to 1974 levels of manufacturing output, energy investment and the performance of gold and…
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Is a Liquidity Trap Possible? Beware of those who do not understand the Structure of Production.
The essential idea of a Liquidity Trap as expounded by J M Keynes in this “General Theory” is that there is a point in…
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Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Private investors in China, the world’s largest metals user, have stockpiled “substantial” quantities of copper as the government ramps up…
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The Superhighway to Serfdom
By kind permission of Sean Corrigan, we make available the September edition of his Resource Ruminations “Superhighway to Serfdom”: “The danger of modern liberty…
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Can the Manipulation of Interest Rates Create Wealth?
The Cobden Centre’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, explores whether cheaper money will make for greater prosperity. You often hear politicians and economic commentators say that…
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Gordon Brown, the Destroyer of our Economy
The Cobden Centre’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, explores Gordon Brown’s total responsibility for the meltdown of the UK economy. It is said that the USA…
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Moral Markets and Honest Money
Revised and updated: reconciling our conflicting views of the market through consistent principle and morality. This post originally appeared on www.stevebaker.info. A Christian friend…
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‘Footsie pushes above 5,000’ but it will not last
Update: As the Footsie pushes above 5,000, we bring this post forwards and refer readers to Why is the FTSE going up? Hopes for a…
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Lord Timon’s Purse
In Lord Timon’s Purse, Sean Corrigan explores the causes of the forty US banking failures of 2009 and sets out some of the basics…
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