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Measures of the money supply
Read more: Measures of the money supplyA dynamic chart showing the various measures of the money supply is available at mises.org: The True Money Supply (TMS) was formulated by Murray Rothbard and represents the amount of money in the economy that is available for…
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Anthony Evans: Quantitative easing is an exotic label for a discredited policy
Read more: Anthony Evans: Quantitative easing is an exotic label for a discredited policyLeading British Austrian-school economist Anthony Evans writes on QE: Economists tend to define QE as when the central bank conducts open-market operations to buy government and corporate securities using newly created money. Many economics textbooks fail to mention…
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Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman – Times Online
Read more: Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman – Times OnlineThe nation’s dreams are troubled, sometimes; dim rumours reach our sleeping ears, rumours that all is not well in the administration of justice; but an ancient spell murmurs through our somnolence, and we remember that the courts are…
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Lt Gen Lamb speaks for all of us in the Armed Forces
Read more: Lt Gen Lamb speaks for all of us in the Armed ForcesReported by the Army Rumour Service as “the full speech by Lt Gen Sir Graeme Lamb at the announcement of gallantry awards in Colchester”: Welcome to this day, particularly the families and friends. We in uniform know only…
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Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters
Read more: Revealed: police databank on thousands of protestersPolice are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal. Photographs, names and video footage of people attending protests…
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BBC NEWS | Politics | ID card ‘flash and dash’ warning
Read more: BBC NEWS | Politics | ID card ‘flash and dash’ warningToby Stevens, of the Enterprise Privacy Group, believes a shortage of fingerprint scanners could lead to an explosion in “flash and dash” fraud. And that, he says, could scupper the scheme before it gets off the ground. The…
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George Osborne: A different vision for our economy
Read more: George Osborne: A different vision for our economyGeorge Osborne has stressed that Britain needs to move from an economy built on debt to one “powered by savings and real returns on effort”. … “With reform we can not only live within our means, we can…
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Blast from the past: R-plate Honda CBR600F
Read more: Blast from the past: R-plate Honda CBR600FWith my KTM 950 Supermoto in for a service, the fine gentlemen at Premier Bikes have loaned me this black Honda CBR600F. Loan Honda CBR600F, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Eleven years ago, this was the middleweight sports bike…
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Are Germans giving up on the euro :: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Read more: Are Germans giving up on the euro :: Ambrose Evans-PritchardExcessively dramatic? Mr Fischer now thinks monetary union is beyond saving. A massive rescue will be needed. It will not be forthcoming. German-French relations are the worst since the war, he said. The European insitutions have lost virtually…