Just look up Warren Harding on Wikipedia. The first entry you will find is not the 29th president of the United States of America, but a rock climber with the same name.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 12 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Irving Fisher"
What Caused the Economic Crisis
Simon Heffer, who writes a mordantly right wing column for the London Daily Telegraph recently wrote that we all know what caused the economic crisis. Perhaps he does, though he did not actually tell his readers what the cause was…
May 7th, 2009 | William Rees-Mogg | 1 comment | Continued
The 1907 Panic
It is worth studying the 1907 panic. It was a global panic, though not the first panic to have a global character. The French Mississippi Bubble and the English South Sea Bubble both burst in 1720, and that was nearly two centuries before the panic of 1907.
April 30th, 2009 | William Rees-Mogg | 0 comments | Continued
Irving Fisher Has Come Back Into Fashion
It is extraordinary how the great American Economist, Irving Fisher, has come back into fashion. In the last week I have seen substantial references to him in The Times of London…
November 28th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 5 comments | Continued
Financial Crises in History
We all have our favourite financial crises which fascinate us by their dramatic sequence of events. Professor Galbraith was fascinated by the 1929-1933 Great Crash…
October 24th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 1 comment | Continued
Irving Fisher Remains Immensely Important in the History of Economic Thought
In February 1946, when they were both old men, Joseph Schumpeter wrote a letter to Irving Fisher explaining why he could not accept a plan on a proposed committee on monetary policy…
September 11th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 0 comments | Continued