By Julian Phillips. Current Situation Since last August, the Indian government placed a stranglehold on gold imports into the country by requiring that 20% of all gold imported be exported as jewellery. This forced the amount of gold imported [...]

  By Richard Larsen.   Western Journalism and Conservative Daily News versions slightly different: http://www.westernjournalism.com/illusion-deception-now-facts-minimum-wage/ http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/03/political-populism-not-economics-behind-minimum-wage-proposal/ The cause [...]

By Otaviano Canuto.    The role of asset bubbles as an unsustainable pillar of pre-2007 world    economic growth has been widely recognized. Simultaneously, analysts  worry that a secular stagnation, though momentarily offset by [...]

  By Sean Guillory. If and when Russia absorbs Crimea, acquiring the peninsula isn’t going to come cheap. The real cost of Crimea might not be sanctions from the US and EU but the funding it’s going to take to support the region. Here’s [...]

  By Jamal Abdi.   Washington, DC – NIAC welcomes the decision by Bank of Hawaii to re-open bank accounts for Iranian customers. After receiving reports that the bank had terminated the accounts of Iranian customers in the U.S. in [...]

  By Michael Bach.  [The following post is by TDV editor-in-chief, Jeff Berwick.] As I write this, the European Union has just announced a possible $15b aid package to the Ukraine (including 8 billion euros in fresh credit). Everybody has [...]

  By Otaviano Canuto,   Policy makers in the advanced economies at the core of the global financial crisis can make the claim that they prevented a new “Great Depression”. However, recovery since the outbreak of the crisis more [...]

  By Julian Phillips.   Current Situation Since last August, the Indian government placed a stranglehold on gold imports into the country by requiring that 20% of all gold imported be exported as jewellery. This forced the amount of gold [...]

By Monty Guild. Google has its fingers in so many technological pies that it’s hard to keep track of them — even the ones not hidden in Google X, the company’s development lab. One of those pies is Google’s small and early-stage [...]

By Steve H. Hanke. When Communism inevitably and finally collapsed, Bulgaria’s economy was a basket case – behind almost all other communist basket cases, including Ukraine’s. Indeed, Bulgaria defaulted on its debt in 1990. By February [...]

By Barry Ferguson. I have been writing about copper. I have been studying the price of copper. Everyone knows that copper has been a barometer of the world economy for many years. Why? Almost everything we use involves copper. Modern electronics [...]

 By Robert C. Pozen. President Obama’s proposal is well-intentioned but may not get workers to save more. A better plan: Automatically enroll workers to an IRA. FORTUNE — President Obama recently proposed to help more workers [...]

By Richard Mills. As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information In the history of mineral exploration, the quest for uranium is really in its infancy. Gold, silver, copper, iron and tin exploration, [...]

By Steve H. Hanke.  In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic [...]

By Steve H. Hanke. A hallmark of socialism and interventionism is failure. Venezuela is compelling proof of this, having spent the past half century going down the tubes. Indeed, in the 1950’s, it was one of Latin America’s most well [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   The €63 billion app boom. Nearly 5 million jobs in European app sector by 2018, says EU report The EU’s app sector has gone from zero to digital superhero in less than five years. By 2018 it could employ [...]

  By Richard Mills.   As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Warning, I’m not a licensed financial planner, a broker, an analyst, a geologist nor an economist. And I’m [...]

By Otaviano Canuto. One month ago, I discussed some major risks to a slight upturn in the global economic scenario for 2014. Among those risks, concerns with the growth slowdown and challenges with shadow banking in China have already [...]

By Steve H. Hanke. Dear Sir: Willem Buiter (“The Fed’s bad manners risk offending foreigners”, Comment, February 5) hits the nail on the head — almost. Yes, the Fed, under the chairmanship of Prof Ben Bernanke, operated as if it [...]

  By Julian Phillips.   As we sit ahead of a future inflation or deflation or both, still to come, we need to understand how gold will perform in these sets of conditions. Much has been written on gold being an inflation hedge but not [...]