
The 2012 Baker Bill: a programme to end financial crises
Earlier today Conservative Steve Baker MP put forward a Private Member’s Bill, the Financial Institutions (Reform) Bill, which outlines a programme of radical reforms…
Read MoreEarlier today Conservative Steve Baker MP put forward a Private Member’s Bill, the Financial Institutions (Reform) Bill, which outlines a programme of radical reforms…
Read MoreGreece was bailed out for the second time in four months. Or did it default? Well, a bit of both, I guess. All bondholders…
Read MoreSimon Rose and his colleagues at Save Our Savers are good friends of The Cobden Centre. Anyone doubting the rising concern of millions of…
Read MoreLast Monday night, before the US markets opened after President’s Day, bailout terms for Greece were announced. The detail is secondary to assessing whether…
Read MoreAs regular readers of these scribblings have hopefully come to appreciate, this is not the place to come to slake your thirst for mechanistic…
Read MoreThe evolution of banking as I have described it has satisfied the immediate demands of shareholders and managers, but has short-changed everyone else. There…
Read MoreFor anyone who is interested to understand what money is and what’s happening to it, I strongly recommend you listen to these two presentations.
Read More“Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their…
Read More“No government has ever commanded the resources at the disposal of our ungodly Leviathan, which consumes about 25% of the product of the world’s…
Read MoreI was glad to see Cobden Partners’ Gordon Kerr on Bloomberg yesterday, explaining why the Greek bailout will fail: As I wrote elsewhere, the…
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