Austrian economist Huerta de Soto explains the real causes of the financial crisis
An hour’s talk, with no notes. Informative and stimulating. I wish I could talk like this (including the Spanish accent! I’m a sucker for non-English accents). Update: The speech was given on March 1st, in Belgium, at the conference ‘The Phantom of Hyperinflation’. Tuur Demeester, the translator of de Soto’s book ‘Money, Bank, Credit and Economic Cycles’ [...]
Author sues the US Government for copyright infringement!
Image via Wikipedia An author and film-maker, J. Neil Schulman, wrote a novel in 1979 about the collapse of the American economy due to massive government overspending and pumping massive amounts of unbacked money and credit into the the system. Schulman claims the US government has stolen his plot! How long before the Randians follow [...]
Is anyone minding the store?
Image via Wikipedia Mousetip to Douglas French at Mises Institute. And speaking of “enough”….Here’s another video of Grayson questioning Geithner. Image via Wikipedia
Something is destroying British education, says former Chief Inspector of Schools
Image via Wikipedia Chris Woodhead, a man many teachers loved to hate when he was Chief Inspector of Schools under the Conservative and then Labour governments, 1994-2000, has written a book in which he expresses his views about British education. An excerpt was published in the Times (online), May 10, 2009. Fifty years ago the [...]
