Inside Job: The Movie
The rise of Michael Moore in recent years has been quite a phenomenon. Some perhaps thought in the 1950s that they had seen the…
Read MoreMarch, 2011
A Note on the Notice of Withdrawal Clause
Regular readers of this site may be aware of a debate relating to the contractual devices that banks might use to ensure that they…
Read MoreFreedom Week 2011
For several years now there has been a highly successful seminar held at Sidney Sussex college, at the University of Cambridge. Around 30 undergraduates…
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Cobden Centre Radio: Brian Micklethwait interviews Detlev Schlichter
Brian Micklethwait speaks to Detlev Schlichter on his upcoming book, Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown. As…
Read MoreVideo: Eliminating Monetary Externalities, Philipp Bagus
As promised, here is the video of Professor Philipp Bagus delivering this year’s Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, at the Austrian Scholars Conference, in…
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Mike Haywood’s “Global Banking Crisis Digest”
Word reaches Cobden Centre Towers of Dr Mike Haywood’s latest banking crisis digest. It’s almost reached the point where we hardly dare open the…
Read MoreRiots and earthquakes are good for business
Several thoughts pirouetted across my mind as I watched the coverage of Saturday’s protest and riots. I wondered why anti-capitalists were wearing clothing with…
Read MoreWe Who Dared to Say No to War
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Thomas E. Woods. Jr about his book, We Who Dared to Say No to War
Read MoreFrom Lombard Street to Easy Street
The old adage about how to succeed in banking was the formula of ‘3-6-3’: borrow at 3%, lend at 6% and get onto the…
Read MoreThe Spectator Goes Austrian (This Week Anyway)
I had a meeting two years ago with James Forsyth, the editor of The Spectator, and talked about the alternative world of Austrian Economics, how…
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