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Gold for the people
Share this articleAt the end of September, a very interesting story made the rounds in the media and caught my attention. Apparently, the US big box giant Costco added one rather surprising product to its range and it proved immensely popular. Next to humongous multipacks of cereal, buckets of peanut butter, mattresses…
Central Banks’ record gold stockpiling
Share this articleAccording to recently released data by the World Gold Council (WGC), as of September 2021, the total amount of gold held in reserves by central banks globally exceeded 36,000 tons for the first time since 1990. This 31-year record was the result of the world’s central banks adding…
“Radical efforts seldom work if they are deprived of common sense”
Share this articleInterview with Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo: Part I of II Even from the early days of the covid crisis, most sensible observers were concerned that the risk of mass panic and of fear overtaking reason was going to be much higher and much more severe than the biological…
Jeff Deist on Why Smaller is Better
Share this articleJeff Deist, President of the Mises Insitute in Auburne (www.mises.org) spoke last week at a meeting of America’s Future Foundation (https://AmericasFuture.org) on the why smaller government units are better, and how the Swiss principle of subsidiarity could help ease the nasty cultural and political divides facing America. Virtually…
Václav Klaus: Remembering Gordon Tullock
Share this articleIt is a regrettable fact, but a fact nonetheless, that too many students of economic and monetary history have no idea where the principles and theories they espouse really came from. So many important thinkers, with unconventional and truly inquisitive minds, have been shut out of mainstream textbooks…
