Broad Oak Magazine

Today came the news that short-term German government paper was following the Swiss example and turning negative, not only that but its expe...

The state is always and everywhere a danger, even when it has no monopoly on money and no printing press that can create money tickets at wi...

Brad Setser looks at data from the US Treasury International Capital System (TIC), trying to work out what's been going on in the money ...

Ron Paul and others discuss the state of the American economy here . Don Boudreaux (the economist who writes the Cafe Hayek blog) agrees wi...

Rob Kirby quotes the Privateer newsletter's report that the European Central Bank is furious with Britain, for borrowing vast sums of ...

(image source) Julian Phillips ( Financial Sense, today ) explains why he thinks central banks may soon have to stop selling gold, and may ...

Gold is currently nearly $820/oz. and it's natural to look at the historical charts to see where this puts us. We did this yesterday. Bu...

GoldSeek (November 1) relays Frank Veneroso's assessment that central banks may have disposed of up to 50% of their gold bullion: ... T...

I am impressed by the courtesy of important people. After reporting on his April 2007 presentation to World Bank people (see yesterday's...

I'm a bit behind on my listening to Financial Sense Newshour , but as ever, the issues we're talking about aren't momentary. Jim...

Further to yesterday's piece on the licence to the European Central Bank to seize the Bank of England's assets, here are two relevan...

German 1,000 Mark note - overprinted to make it one billion Marks I think I was right to puzzle over the footnote (in 6-point type!) to ...