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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 3764 Comments

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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Let’s stop kidding ourselves

22nd April 2024 Emile Woolf 2637 Comments

Columnists write glibly about the “cost-of-living crisis” as if it were an affliction visited upon our unsuspecting community and that, as usual, it is the duty of government to cure it. The fact that the [more…]

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Debt cancellation: the new panacea?

20th June 2023 Going Postal 2605 Comments

There is clearly a common denominator in the kind of “solutions” that the State comes up with to deal with the problems that it caused (and that’s most problems). Not only are these remedies worse [more…]

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Growth is the antidote to stagnation – but it requires knowledge and leadership

30th January 2023 Emile Woolf 1594 Comments

By now even Treasury officials and central banks recognise that their practice of Quantitative Easing has run its course. In its contemporary form, QE began a dozen years ago as a temporary emergency measure enacted [more…]

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World Dollar Hegemony Is Ending

24th October 2022 Patrick Barron 4576 Comments

The end of world dollar hegemony is coming and hardly anyone in government is taking notice or even understands what this means. Since the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, the dollar has been the only [more…]

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Crisis After Crisis – The Economic Chain Reaction

17th October 2022 Emile Woolf 4031 Comments

Several readers expressed surprise that last week’s essay concerned my personal NHS experiences rather than the pressing  issues of the day. In such a rapidly changing economic picture no commentary can ever be bang-up-to-date, while [more…]

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Sound Money Can Prevent What Representative Democracy Does Not

17th August 2022 Patrick Barron 3294 Comments

One of the arrogances of “Western” nations is that our way of life and our liberties are protected by periodic elections as required by constitutions, written (America) or not (Great Britain), containing bills of rights, [more…]

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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 2096 Comments

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]

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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1

14th February 2022 Emile Woolf 2198 Comments

Any catalogue of economic legends would of course include the 2008 visit of Queen Elizabeth to the London School of Economics, when the country was experiencing an unprecedented housing market bubble based on the irrational [more…]

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