Economist Channel

Gold: The Once and Future Money with James Rickards James Rickards joins Cambridge House International, where he discusses how gold has dominated the financial scene throughout history and how it will once again rise from the ashes and take back its rightful throne. Gold is coming...

Jim Rickards explains the day after plan... Forget gold, Silver is going out of sight. How should you be preparing for the big one? An economic collapse looms on the horizon, but many are simply unprepared. Don't be caught off guard, heed Jim Rickards latest advice and take action before you are completely and utterly wiped out...

It's Not Just Jim Rickards, I Prescribe To $10,000 Gold The imminent collapse of modern currencies will push gold up to $10,000 an ounce, assuming central banks resort back to a gold-backed monetary system, said Byron King, editor of Jim Rickards’ Gold Speculator.  “If you take the global money supply, back it with 40% gold, you need...

Hosted by Kitco News at the 2018 VRIC. Rick Rule, Peter Hug, and Jim Rickards join a panel where they discuss the direction that gold is heading throughout 2018 and beyond.In addition to this, they break down a number of key issues that are affecting the markets and some that have not yet come to pass...What is the end game?- Source, Cambridge Ho...

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UCD School of Economics is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2018-19 PhD Scholarship scheme. The aim of the scheme is to attract applicants of the highest academic standards to participate in the UCD School of Economics PhD programme (details here) and provide them with the training, experience and mentorship necessary to their professional...

Unintended consequences of well-intentioned policies, unexpected behavioral changes in response to ignored incentives, unusual supply (or demand) responses to demand (or supply) interventions, and clever new pathways for changes to happen are the sorts of mechanisms that make economics fun, and I hope useful to cause-and-effect understanding of human...

Full details, including a link to apply are available here.Applications are invited for a permanent Lecturer/Assistant Professor post in Environmental Policy. Applicants must have a PhD in environmental economics and policy or a related area, a strong, demonstrable commitment to research and international publication in environmental policy design...

Justin Baer and Ryan Tracy have an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Bear Stearns bailout.The Federal Reserve tried to limit the damage with extraordinary actions, first extending the firm credit before forcing it into a hasty weekend shotgun marriage to JPMorgan Chase with $29 billion in...

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The Fama Portfolio, is a new book from the University of Chicago Press. This is a collection of Gene Fama's papers, edited by Toby Moskowitz and me. It includes introductory essays by a group of Gene's distinguished colleagues, Ken French, Bill Schwert, René Stulz, Cliff Asness,...

A short oped for the Wall Street Journal here  on stock buybacks. As usual, they ask me not to post the whole thing for 30 days though you can find it ungated if you search. An excerpt:... Buybacks do not automatically make shareholders wealthier. Suppose Company A has $100 cash and a factory worth $100. It has issued two shares, each worth...

An oped on tariffs, for Fox news here. That tariffs are bad is rather obvious to readers of this blog, but perhaps marshaling and digesting things we've known for 250 years is worthwhile. In a remarkable achievement, President Trump has united the nation’s economists by proposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, tariffs designed to reduce...

Once per decade or so it is worth revisiting the famous 1930 economists' letter on Tariffs. (The link, at econjournalwatch.org, has a concise history and links to more.) 1028 economists -- a huge proportion of the number then around -- signed the following, urging President Hoover to veto the Smoot Hawley tariff.We know how it turned out. No, we did...

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