Big Brother loves you!
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” Benito Mussolini Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear…
Read MoreJanuary, 2012
A challenge for 2012 – part two
A challenge for 2012 – part one was to read The Theory of Money and Credit by Mises on its 100th year anniversary. The…
Read MoreBeyond the Mondragon experiment
When Labour peer Maurice Glasman recently went on BBC Radio 4 with TCC’s Detlev Schlichter I was disappointed and a little taken aback to…
Read MoreFEDging the figures
Both the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are now offering limitless quantities of new money – the ECB to support the…
Read MoreLiving off immoral earnings
Contender for leading meme of our time is the idea, fast becoming conventional wisdom, that capitalism is somehow experiencing a crisis. UK Prime Minister David Cameron (or his speechwriter) suggested last week that it is now the time to use the “crisis of capitalism to improve markets, not undermine them.”
If the Prime Minister were capable of framing the problem correctly, he would have said that it was now the time to use the “crisis of statism to introduce markets”.
Read MoreWe don’t need no regulation
Taking the title from a recent Guardian article, Jan Skoyles looks at the arguments made by Thomas Frank, in his new book ‘Pity the…
Read MoreAre you ready for EuroCrash the musical?
I am not joking. It has finally happened. And I want to see it. As reported by Bloomberg, ‘Euro Crash! The Musical’ is coming…
Read MoreEven the past is going to be unpredictable
Last week I met with an American executive who works in the financial services sector. She is a firm and knowledgeable supporter of the…
Read MoreInto the inferno
In my previous article, I considered the possibility that Germany may finally succumb to the malaise spreading around it, causing German rectitude gave way…
Read MoreStrippers and bankers’ just rewards
There are many times when working alongside the TCC team I have to smile. Having read a City AM article by our own Dr….
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