Thinking Out Aloud

Today (Tuesday 31st) is Milton Friedman's centenary.  It seems appropriate to link to some Milton Friedman quotes  here  and  here . ...

What do the goldzone Great Depression ( 1929-3? ) and the Eurozone Great Recession (2008-?) have in common? They were both created by Euro...

Time for some more food p0rn. Are your bites bloc-sized? It's always time for chocolate.

Venezia is not a wheelchair friendly city.  Almost all the bridges are stepped. But we were taken with this solution to the problem of w...

The slogan for this post is:  don't think debt, think safe assets . (This post is partly provoked by  this post  by Paul Krugman re...

What is the biggest difference in decision-making between buying equipment and hiring a person?  The characteristics of the equipment are m...

Who would want the global monetary system to be at the mercy of the Bank of China?  Not conservative, free market types in the United Sta...

It is a matter of some comment that the public debt burden of the United States  has recently increased somewhat . Upward, ever upwar...

Venezia is very much a city for masks.  They are on sale throughout the city. Carnevale  may be only once a year, but the accoutrements ...

This is based on a comment I made here . At the Bubbles and Busts blog , there is a post crit...

I have been doing a fair bit of reading in the history of money and monetary theory to try and understand money, particularly its origin a...

I came across ( via ) this  very silly statement : The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome ... That would be news to the  ...

This is based on a comment I made here . George Selgin posted a challenge to market monetarist analysis which he has also attempted to ...

This is based on a comment I made here . One of the striking questions about the American Revolution is why the Canadian colonies did ...

This is based on a comments I made here  and here . I don't believe the "Greenspan caused the housing bubble" argument,...