Day: November 15, 2013

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What future for welfare?

(This policy bulletin is an extract from an FMF Occasional Paper published 2002 by Peter Saunders)

Can people look after themselves without a welfare state? Can people look after themselves without a welfare state?

The evidence from the USA, reviewed above, is itself enough to suggest that, even among the poorest

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Yellen, the Hawk? – Globe Asia – November 2013

In the November 2013 issue of Globe Asia, Professor Steve Hanke discusses Dr Janet Yelland, who has been nominated by President Obama to become the new US Federal Reserve Chairman. “Is Janet Yellen really the dove she is made out to be? Well, when it comes to the money supply,

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Feature Article: Inflation is a form of theft

Stopping price inflation by halting the inflation of the rand would give pensioners, savers and low income people a break. It would halt the perpetual price increases that make their lives miserable. The action of curbing this form of theft is entirely in the hands of the SA Reserve Bank

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