Tag Archives: Austrian

BBC Roundtable Discussion on Europe’s Banking Crisis

Its always interesting to hear some great thinkers discuss issues in this format. This meeting brought together Jeffery Sachs, Gillian Tett, and Hugh Hendry.

I believe Hugh gets it right: Europe needs to let the banks that made bad decisions fail.

Towards the end, though, Hugh discusses imposing stricter legislation on banking dividends, and this is where [...]

Instinctive Economics

The subject of greed and profit has always been a very politically polarizing topic, with the left seeing profit as inherently evil and the right, while not perfect, seeing profit as a more acceptable showcase of success. From the Austrian perspective, profit is the side effect of providing a good or service that has more [...]