Wilhelm Röpke: The Economist Who Stood Up To Hitler
bySometimes there are men of principle who live their values and not merely speak or write about them. People who stand up to political…
Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us
byDespite zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP) and multiple quantitative easing programs — whereby the central bank buys large quantities of assets while leaving interest rates at practically…
Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard
byMatt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist ofThe Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a…
Carl Menger And The Foundations Of Austrian Economics
byToday is Austrian economist, Carl Menger’s, birthday. Born on February 23, 1840, he died on February 26, 1921, at the age of 81. Menger…
Negative rates, Negative Outcomes
byThere has been much head-scratching of late as to why, with interest rates lower than they have been since the Universe first exploded out…
Jittery January Markets – Does the ECB have Contingency Plans?
byThe ECB must be aware that investors’ confidence in stock markets, particularly bank shares, dropped in January. If contingency plans exist, they are likely…
Everything changes at zero
by“Then said Jesus, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”” – Luke 23:34. For the benefit of non-subscribers, there are two…
Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk: Leading Austrian Economist And Finance Minister Of Fiscal Restraint
byWe live at a time when politicians and bureaucrats only know one public policy: more and bigger government. Yet, there was a time when…
Your do-it-yourself front page financial Armageddon story
by“The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality…
The Follies and Fallacies of Keynesian Economics
byEighty years go, on February 4, 1936, one of the most influential books of the last one hundred years was published, British economist, John…