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Who saw it coming and the primacy of accounting

Massive hat tip to Chris Cook for pointing out this fascinating paper.

In it, Dirk J Bezemer of Gronington University attempts to show that certain contrarian economic models — and economists — anticipated the credit crisis and the ensuing recession. More…

All back to normal … or is it?

Phew, it wasn’t the end of capitalism — or the worst recession since the 1920s for that matter –  after all. It was all just a bad dream. Consensus indeed seems to have it – the bull market is back, More…

Peter Schiff makes a defence

A bit of a blogging war has erupted in cyberspace on the subject of Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital – relating largely to whether he was right or not.

For a bit of context, Peter Schiff established himself as the definitive dollar bear over the latter half of the naughties, More…