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Popularity is overrated
“Remember what has happened. In an unnecessary referendum, a small majority chose an option they could not understand, because it had not been worked…
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A Letter to Governor Carney from Professor Kevin Dowd
Dear Governor Carney, I thank your colleagues and yourself for taking the time to meet me on my visit to the Bank earlier…
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Cobden Centre Seminar at the Bank of England – Detlev’s Speech
Speech – Bank of England July 11, 2017 From Gold Standard to PhD Standard – The last 100 Years of Money and Central Banking…
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Bank of England Seminar Last Week – Thanks to the Bank
Thanks to the Bank of England for inviting us to do a seminar on the Austrian School of Economics last Tuesday. Cobden Centre contributors Detlev…
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Simple and Meaningful Ways to Change American Health Care
Ram Nagarajan is an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago who believes in individual liberty, limited government and a market based approach to…
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Zero Hedge: Fed Chair Janet Yellen Warns Congress US Debt Trajectory Is Unsustainable
During her testimony this morning, Fed Chair Janet Yellen urged Congress to take into account the growth trajectory of the federal debt when making decisions…
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The Bernanke-Yellen Bubble-Depression
by Mark Thornton Source here: https://mises.org/blog/bernanke-yellen-bubble-depression In a recent article I advocated for a new way of naming business cycles. The new approach emphasizes the cause rather than the…
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Why US wages growth remains subdued?
The yearly growth rate of average hourly earnings in production and non-supervisory employment in the private sector eased to 2.3% in June from 2.4%…
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Understanding money and prices
This article explains the money side of prices, and why government currencies, unbacked by gold, are doomed to collapse. And why gold, which is…
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The Future of Money Conference
Last Friday I had the pleasure of giving the keynote speech at the Future of Money Conference in Leipzig. This was one of the…
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Borrowed time
“Remainers who wish to reverse the vote should go live in a banana republic, where reversing undesired vote outcomes is de rigueur.” Tweet from…
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Why profitability and not risk should be primary consideration in asset allocation
It is widely held that financial asset markets always fully reflect all available and relevant information, and that adjustment to new information is virtually…
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Lord Acton on the American Constitution
AT THE TIME of the utmost degradation of the Athenian democracy, when the commanders at Arginus~ were condemned by an unconstitutional decree, and Socrates…
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Government Monopoly Money vs. Personal Choice in Currency
For more than two hundred years, practically all of even the most free market advocates have assumed that money and banking were different from…
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Latest Articles on Economics
Popularity is overrated
“Remember what has happened. In an unnecessary referendum, a small majority chose an option they could not understand, because it had not been worked…
Simple and Meaningful Ways to Change American Health Care
Ram Nagarajan is an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago who believes in individual liberty, limited government and a market based approach to…
Zero Hedge: Fed Chair Janet Yellen Warns Congress US Debt Trajectory Is Unsustainable
During her testimony this morning, Fed Chair Janet Yellen urged Congress to take into account the growth trajectory of the federal debt when making decisions…
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Money out of “thin air” and economic cycles
According to the Nobel Laureate in Economics, Milton Friedman, the root of the business cycle is the fluctuations in the growth rate of money…
Does the existence of unemployed resources justify easy money?
Once an economy falls into recession many commentators tend to express concern that as a result of the economic slump there are now…
Will Gold or Silver Pay the Higher Interest Rate?
This question is no longer moot. As the world moves inexorably towards the use of metallic money, interest on gold and silver will return…
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