Giving you food for thought...
Giving you food for thought...
Economics and Finance:
The full text of Henry Hazlitt’s book Economics in One Lesson, which was first published in 1946, and gave me my grounding of foundation knowledge about this subject. It still amazes me how many of the concepts and ideas contained within it’s pages, remain relevant, right up to the present day.
When I read this book I was very surprised by the remarkable parallels between the
days prior to the hyperinflation experienced in Germany in the period 1920 -
This essay by John Lanchester for the London Review of Books gives, in my humble opinion, a brilliant exposé of the UK banking crisis in 2008.
In my quest to gain some understanding of global economics and, specifically, the causes of the ‘Credit Crunch’. I found this two part programme from the BBC World Service in December 2007 very helpful. (downloadable mp3 available). Everything predicted in those programmes seems to be coming to pass so, in my view, the explanations given are very accurate indeed!
The BBC has further and extensive coverage, especially from their economics correspondent Robert Peston.
This lecture, given in 1987, by Professor Joseph Peden, on ‘Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire’ shows how we can all learn so much from history. The lecture is available here as a transcript or, if you prefer, an mp3 audio podcast can be downloaded directly from the transcript page.
Useful Resources:
Bloomberg is one of the most comprehensive sources of both current economic news
with in-
The Motley Fool is a brilliant site with lots of forums offering helpful advice. I’m a member (it’s free to join) and have posted contributions myself.
Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert web site has, over the years, saved me a small fortune.
The Daily Reckoning has many interesting articles. I particularly enjoy following Bill Bonner as he has a shrewd insight combined with a great sense of humour.
This Financial Dictionary unravels some of the terminology used by economists and investment advisors.
Both King World News and Financial Sense Newshour have a continuous flow of economic information, news and analysis. I regularly listen to their interviews (which are all available to download in mp3 format).
The Finance Markets web site gives good coverage of breaking economic news and also
has some good in-