Hayek and Mrs Bunch: The Irregularity of Individuals
Marshalled by Mark Rogers It is perhaps not surprising that the English Common Law presages so much of Hayek’s understanding of how law underpins economic life, particularly as it is so heavily...
View ArticleAN OBITUARY FOR THE LEFT
By Mark Rogers Perry Anderson, editor of The New Left Review, wrote an editorial for the January-February 2000 issue, in which he looked at all that had happened over the previous twenty years, and...
View ArticleGLOBALIZATION: A VIEW FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) There is no place in the town which I so much love to frequent as the Royal Exchange. It gives me a secret satisfaction, and, in some measure, gratifies...
View ArticleSTATE WORSHIP AND THE ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT
By Mark Rogers Globalization: what is it but an activity that is as old as civilization – simply a modern name for trade? Joseph Addison’s paean to its virtues stresses the civilizing effect it has,...
View ArticleTHE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL?
By Mark Rogers Keynes was notorious for believing that savings, especially in a welfare state, were a form of selfishness. Alan Greenspan, quoted in the previous post, pointed out that: “The financial...
View ArticleHUMAN ACTION AND HUMAN EFFORT
By Mark Rogers We have seen how the Deutsche Bank analysts who wrote Gold: Adjusting for Zero made a central place in their discussion for the Misean concept of human effort, and how an inflationary,...
View ArticleEDMUND BURKE ON THE CULT OF THE STATE
They must be worse than blind who cannot see with what undeviating regularity of system, in this and in all cases, they pursue their scheme for the destruction of every independent power … The design...
View ArticleMORTGAGES REPRISED
By Mark Rogers A recent story in the London Evening Standard announced that first time buyers are expected to stump up a £100,000 deposit. Thus, evermore young, first time buyers are being denied their...
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GOLD: THE BOOK OF THE MOMENT
Review by Mark Rogers Gold, A Different Point of View by Paul McGowan With a Preface by Bill Bonner Published by Ferrington in association with LinGold.com Following the drop in the price of gold a few...
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Gold Trends Analysis
Gold Medium Term and Resistance Line Long Term Trend ~ Neutral since 4/12/13 @ 1501 ~ Moving averages 1560 – 1561 Medium Term Trend ~ Bearish since 4/5/13 @ 1575 ~ Moving averages 1321 – 1370 From a...
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