Business First Magazine
This article originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Business First Magazine has published a cover story by me and my Cobden Centre colleague Robert Sadler, It’s…
Read MoreJanuary, 2011
Hard Money, Soft Metal
Soft gold prices without hard-money rates? Not for long, says the world’s 40-year unbacked money so far… JUST HOW MUCH ABUSE can soft money…
Read MoreWe may be heading for double dip, but don’t blame the government
Reading the responses to Tuesday’s news that the British economy shrunk by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010 will have left many confused….
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Liam Halligan: Bankers regain power as Davos summit ends with a big fudge
There is another excellent piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph, from Mr Liam Halligan, summarising the end game situation at the recent Davos power elite…
Read MoreRobert P. Murphy: Only the Austrians Understand Interest Rates
An interesting lecture from Robert P. Murphy, on how time, communication, prices, human time preferences, capital structures, and interest rates, are intimately linked together…
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BBC Radio 4: Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!
Cobden Centre readers may want to set their radio clock alarms for 8:30pm on Monday evening, on the 31st of January, when Jamie Whyte…
Read MoreThe ghost of Molinari is alive and well and in the Wall Street Journal
I have just stumbled across this excellent article in the day before yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. It is not only a good read but,…
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Something for the Weekend: Taming the Vampire Squid
As Murray Rothbard said in Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty, we must discover who are friends and allies are, as well as…
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The Beauty of Being Iceland
Under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the EU allowed the external countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway to enter the ‘levelled’ EU…
Read MoreThe resistance to EU centralization comes from Slovakia
The heroes of Europe are to be found in Slovakia. The Slovak government is the only Eurozone government that did not participate in the…
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