If the cap fits …
byAs the ongoing rise in raw materials prices has been brought into sharper focus by the oil price spike occasioned by the Colonel’s little…
Tightening in China will be felt around the world
byEven though the Chinese authorities made no bones about the fact that they had conveniently ‘rebased’ their latest CPI numbers in order to mitigate…
Money is not working.
byA speech to the Policy Exchange on 31st March 2009 by Cobden Centre sponsor James Tyler. This article first appeared on hedgehedge.com but it…
Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending
byThis paper by Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna provides very good empirical research to confirm that what we expect a priori: that deficit cutting…
Morgan Stanley: Inflation Uncertainty and Corporate Finance
byBy kind permission of Morgan Stanley’s Caitlin Long, The Cobden Centre is delighted to publish their report, Inflation Uncertainty and Corporate Finance. Some key…
Global paper tsunami planned by IMF
byYou might remember a post, a month or two back, about the Davos plan to flood the world with $100 trillion dollars of new…
Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse
byA new book has just rolled off red hot — or should that be ice cold? — from the Mises.org printing press, written by…
Book Review: The Tragedy of the Euro, by Philipp Bagus
byThe world centre of gravity of the Austrian Economics movement has long been the United States, especially since Ludwig von Mises arrived there on…
Thought for the day: should we pay the BoE £9bn pa in interest?
byIn November, I asked this Parliamentary question: Steven Baker (Wycombe, Conservative) To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much debt interest has been paid…
Austrian School provides best explanation of financial crisis
byJean-Marie Eveillard, who manages $36 billion dollars of other people’s money via First Eagle Funds, discusses the current highly interesting markets in China, India,…