What’s Different about Monetary Policy?
byMany people agree that it’s important to move to a free market in money (i.e. the gold standard). They also say that it’s just…
War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom
byWe are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and…
David Stockman: Professor Bernanke’s Bogus Contra-factual
bySource: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/professor-bernankes-bogus-contra-factual-part-1-the-myth-of-great-depression-2-0/ It took no “courage” whatsoever to inflate the Fed’s balance sheet from $900 billion to $2.3 trillion during just 17 weeks in September-December 2008. What…
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will
byWaiting for Godot is a play written by the Irish novelist Samuel B. Beckett in the late 1940s in which two characters, Vladimir and…
Liam Fox’s Speech to the IEA on Honest Money
byDr Fox gave his speech on honest money to the IEA last week. The video can also be viewed here: http://www.iea.org.uk/multimedia/video/rt-hon-liam-fox-on-honest-money It is…
Only an investment bank could be this obtuse
by“Government powerless to intervene in non-banking industry THE GOVERNMENT HAS confirmed there is absolutely nothing it can do to save the non-London-based steel industry. As thousands…
Interview with Andreas Antonopoulos on the Future of Bitcoin and Digital Currencies
byAndreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin. He is…
‘Radical Toryism: the Libertarian Alternative’ (1975)
byThis paper of mine was first published 40 years ago when, as a young Oxford graduate, I was a founder member and editorial director…
What’s right with the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
byThe TPP may boost real-incomes by $285bln by 2025 US Congress should approve the TPP to avoid international political embarrassment The TPP may be…
Jeffrey Snider: Kuroda’s Rebuke Came Awfully Swift
byThere must be a universal speech template included in the monetary textbook that is shared among the various central banks. On September 28, 2015,…