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Cantillon Effect

Economics

Secret Message in Cantillon’s Essai

27th March 2025 Going Postal 0

Murry Rothbard’s chapter, The Celebrated Adam Smith, in his Economic Thought before Adam Smith begins: Adam Smith … is a mystery in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.  The mystery is the enormous and unprecedented [more…]

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The Cantillon Effect…. Or how printing money entrenches wealth and power at the expense of everyone else……..

23rd January 2025 Going Postal 0

It’s one of those wonderful explanatory ideas that is obscure in that very few people know what it is but outlandishly obvious and essentially undeniable once you hear it.  When you’re going to print money [more…]

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Cantillon effect: Who’s paying the highest price?

11th April 2022 Going Postal 0

Every time we hear government officials announce their big spending plans, their new welfare programs and their ambitious “job creating” schemes, they always present them as being in defense of the poorest and the most marginalized [more…]

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Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 0

I have written on the subject of currency debasement many times, but it is now reaching crunch-time – even for the pound, dollar, yen and euro.  Most respected economists persist in defining inflation as a [more…]

America

The Most Dangerous Organization on the Planet

24th November 2021 Patrick Barron 1

If asked to name the most dangerous organization on the planet, I doubt that few outside of the Austrian economic community would respond “America’s central bank–The Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed)”. Nevertheless, there is no [more…]

America

Government Spending Cannot “Stimulate” the Economy

18th October 2021 Patrick Barron 0

Government economic policy is completely backwards. We are told that massive deficit spending, interest rates driven to zero, and now higher taxes on the “rich” will bring the American economy out of the doldrums or [more…]

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My Crypto Currency Journey, Part one

20th October 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

As a a professional research economist my first contact with crypto currency came with my ever increasing commitment to Austrian School economics over a decade ago. Always a free marketeer in the traditional classical liberal mode [more…]

Economics

International Trade: The Currency Effect

7th September 2020 Emile Woolf 0

The tenacity with which certain economic fallacies persist is truly remarkable. Take the notion that the euro currency is too strong for certain countries, notably Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, causing their exports to be [more…]

Economics

Fiat Money and Socialism

19th November 2019 Patrick Barron 0

For some time now I have been mulling over the possible causes of what seems to be an increase in the desire for socialism among the young. For someone of my generation (an early post [more…]

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