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Poor Understanding of Monetary Theory Leads to Disastrous Government Policies

19th August 2020 Patrick Barron 0

Austrian School economists know that unsound money has been at the heart of disastrous government policies since time immemorial. The greater the ignorance of money the greater the monetary debasement in order to fund government’s [more…]

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Investing on the Stock Market

5th August 2020 Going Postal 0

I wouldn’t ever call myself a professional investor far from it, I am a real amateur. I have had one or two successes and some real flops but in general, I have made more than [more…]

Emile Woolf, Going Postal
Business

Facing Economic Reality: Painful but Avoidable

3rd August 2020 Emile Woolf 0

“When the tide goes out you discover who’s been swimming naked”. Thus spake the sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet. When government ministers are floundering, manifestly out of their depth, you know, despite all official protestations, [more…]

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Roosevelt’s Disastrous New Deal

1st July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into main stream academic & political economic archives [more…]

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Economics

The Risk Factor: Time for an Honest Assessment

29th June 2020 Emile Woolf 0

As the spread of Covid begins to wane we should consider afresh whether, for example, a shopkeeper who travels to work to open his business is in fact acting irresponsibly. This comes, as ever, down [more…]

Authoritarianism

Balancing Disease & Cure – It’s Not Just the Virus

1st June 2020 Emile Woolf 0

In his latest book (“The Body – a Guide for Occupants”) Bill Bryson highlights the limitations on what money can buy. He points out, for example, that America spends more per capita on healthcare than [more…]

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Business

What’s happened to self-reliance and Resilience? They were never needed more

18th May 2020 Emile Woolf 0

The title of Kristian Niemitz’s latest book, “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”“Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”, is easily explained by the current crisis. We are experiencing a re-emergence of a giveaway [more…]

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The Virus Circle – An Object Lesson on Socialist Economics

11th May 2020 Emile Woolf 0

It’s not quite like having to start the economy from scratch, but this lockdown-induced recession warrants some detached assessment. We are aware that viable businesses have been forced to close their doors – or keep [more…]

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Authoritarianism

We have all become experts

27th April 2020 Emile Woolf 0

Or have we? In the course of more than four weeks of self/family isolation we have all encountered mountains of speculation on the sources of Covid-19; how it spreads; estimates of its final tally of [more…]

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