Sean Corrigan

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• Let's Go Fly a Kite

  Published 07 June 2004 | viewed 3,389 times

  'In my view, there still is an output gap and I think that it will continue to create some downward inflation pressure, which may be…

• Time Bomb

  Published 15 May 2004 | viewed 3,542 times

  Warren Buffett also frets on this. Not bad, for government work..... The BIS derivative survey reveals that, as of Dec 2003, the global derivatives market…

• From Theory to Praxis

  Published 31 March 2004 | viewed 3,825 times

  Or, Economics in One Lecture Henry Hazlitt, 1894-1993, in memoriam. Based on a speech given at the Austrian Scholars Conference, The Ludwig von Mises Institute,…

• Fair Exchange or Daylight Robbery?

  Published 21 November 2003 | viewed 2,990 times

  Complicating the evaluation of the timing of a turnaround is that deficit countries, both developed and emerging, borrow in international markets largely in dollars rather…

• How Recessions Become Depressions

  Published 04 November 2003 | viewed 3,283 times

  This talk was delivered at the Mises Institutes 2003 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama, on October 25, 2003. As all Austrians should be aware, recessions…

• Out of the Darkness

  Published 28 August 2003 | viewed 3,989 times

  Though vehemently denied by all and sundry in officialdom, there are many in financial markets who will tell you that the decision taken suddenly in…

• Shades of '87

  Published 04 August 2003 | viewed 3,144 times

  Though there are undoubtedly great dissimilarities, too, between the two episodes, we wrote some while back that, in many ways, 2002-3 was shaping up a…

• 'Its Dishonour, Sir!'

  Published 03 August 2003 | viewed 4,088 times

  In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But though we had plenty of…

• Thrift

  Published 14 July 2003 | viewed 2,864 times

  A long time ago, in a Galaxy, far, far away, people understood the concept of thrift. If there was a thing which cost more than…

• The Bankers' Bankers Meet

  Published 04 July 2003 | viewed 3,198 times

  Monday marked the annual get together of the central bankers' central bank - the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland. This shadowy institution was…

• I Dinna Ken Aboot Tha'

  Published 16 June 2003 | viewed 3,732 times

  The IMF's latest brainwave has been to set up a deflation 'taskforce' under its chief economist Ken Roggoff. As you would expect, with that pedigree,…

• Infinite Pains

  Published 04 June 2003 | viewed 2,811 times

  'Jesper Koll, from Merrill Lynch (Japan), told a Minerals Council of Australia conference that reports of the imminent collapse of the Japanese banking system were…

• Golden Opportunity

  Published 19 June 2002 | viewed 3,284 times

  They almost avoided all the woes. The Brussels Conference, held despite the refusal of the US Treasury to co-operate, had it down pretty much pat.…