A return to stop-go?
byAs the Fed’s QE-II programme was first announced and then implemented in the early autumn of last year, more and more elements of the…
Divinely comical
by“Italy, long a bystander to the euro-zone’s debt woes, was thrust into the eye of the storm on Monday, as investors fled the country’s…
Steve Baker in Jewish Chronicle
byThe current edition of the Jewish Chronicle has a sound article by TCC board member Steve Baker. Headed ‘Injustice to banking’ it covers one…
Swiss Parliament to discuss gold franc
byFollowing our Cobden Centre Radio interview last week with Thomas Jacob, and his plans to use a democratic Swiss plebiscite to re-introduce a Swiss…
The Streets of Vienna
byA street in Vienna is called a gasse, strasse or platz. There are a few of them named after people who aren’t so popular…
Mark Thornton: Austrian economics versus mainstream economics
byThe excellent Mark Thornton discusses how Austrian economics – the oldest continuous school of economics – both differs from the more recent mathematical mainstream…
Rob Arnott: QE, Fed, inflation, Weimar Germany, investor confidence & more
byMany of us in the mad-eyed gold bug community subscribe to King World News, to seek out affirmation for our crazy lopsided view of…
An updated version of MA
byI have recently updated an “Austrian” measure of the UK money supply labelled MA. The Executive Summary is as follows: The 2008/09 financial crisis…
Is hyperinflation inevitable?
byOne of the major lessons of the financial crisis thus far should be that every bond constitutes credit risk – even those issued by…
Dr. Mark Pennington becomes Senior Fellow with TCC
byI am pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Pennington has just become a Senior Fellow with The Cobden Centre. Currently reader in public policy…