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...
London 2012 Olympics: driving away "normal" tourists?
With barely 50 days to go to the start of London 2012, those of us who want to see our great city prosper will find Thomas Harding’s article “Third of London hotel rooms empty for Olympics as ‘normal’ tourists stay away” (Telegraph, 05/06/12) extremely disappointing reading. Harding reports on...