It took me until my 43rd year to read “The Selfish Gene,” written in 1976 by Richard Dawkins. In many respects, it is a testament to its success that I felt no compelling desire to read it. What I perceived to be its central message had been absorbed into the very fabric of our culture. […]
Professor Jesus Huerta De Soto sent me a hard copy of his new film called “In Defense of the Euro (An Austrian Perspective)”, you can watch it here. For those truly interested in the Gold Standard as a potential solution to our monetary crises , whilst the Euro is a very weak imitation of […]
This is the second time I have raced IM70.3 in Mallorca and I knocked 11 mins off last years race coming in at 5:22:16 – being over 43 years old, I guess I can only be thankful that there was progress. What was remarkable this year was the 3,200 participants against 1900 in 2012 . […]
Towards the end of last year, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard discovered the IMF working paper “The Chicago Plan Revisited” (PDF), which “revives the scheme first put forward by professors Henry Simons and Irving Fisher in 1936 during the ferment of creative thinking in the late Depression”. He was perplexed: Arguably, it would smother freedom and enthrone a Leviathan state. […]
I received an email the other day from Paul-Martin Foss, Legislative Assistant at the Office of Congressman Ron Paul: Dear Friends of Dr. Paul, If you are receiving this email, it is because you are a friend of Dr. Paul, a witness at one of our monetary policy hearings, a contributor to what has become […]
After a poor performance in the above in the summer, I thought I should get back to the IM70.3 distances which I am much more suited to. The IM70.3 Lanzarote event is held at Club La Santa, Mecca for the sporty person. I am surprised I have not been here before it is simply […]
I received an interesting email recently from a distinguished colleague in Spain. He was looking at the Central Bank of Cuba’s website where they state their monetary policy. He said to me, “you could ask your readers if they can grasp similarities and spot differences (other than that they recognize they are not a market […]
Its a great pleasure to wake up in the morning on holiday and read something very true, as always, from Mises. Its also a great pleasure to get emails from fellow Cobdenites. One of our supporters sent me this link to a recent Bloomberg article. In short, it has got on the band wagon of […]
The following quote is taken from page 155 of Capital and Production by Richard von Strigl, which you can download in PDF format from our downloads section, or in various formats from Mises.org. H/T to Sean Corrigan for drawing our attention to this note. The Error Financing consumption through consuming capital also occurs in what […]
I am delighted that Fraser Nelson and the Spectator have picked up something we have been saying all the time for our nearly three years in existence: that QE is a regressive tax that transfers from the poor to the rich and should be stopped with immediate effect. This of course should not be the […]
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