Tag: Austrian Economics

Making the Case for Gold… (Romney & a new Gold Commission) #2

Seth Lipsky’s Wall Street Journal article “The Gold Standard Goes Mainstream” reports on the growing calls across the US for real and fundamental monetary reform, for the restoration of a metallic basis to money (a return of the Gold Standard), auditing the Federal Reserve, and the restriction of the...

Making the case for Gold… (and against central banks) #1

The Telegraph (31/08/12) carried an article by Andrew Trotman that reported Euro Pacific Capital’s chief, Peter Schiff, has predicted that the US will return to the Gold Standard within two years. Whilst a timetable of two years might be overly optimistic, the very fact that serious people in finance...

IES-Europe Seminar in Gummersbach: Apply NOW!

Fancy spending a free week in Gummersbach, Germany, this summer exploring the ideas of liberty in the company of leading scholars of freedom and like-minded students from across Europe and beyond? Organised by my friends at IES-Europe, your week in Gummersbach will see youl learn about the institutions and...