What can Business Learn from Academia: Fish, Hayek, Keynes and Oakeshott
byHaving recently sold my food business, life is moving at a much slower pace, which gives time for thought and reflection before I undertake…
The Myth of Under-provision of Science by the Free Market
byOne of the recurring myths propagated by today’s mainstream economists is that scientific research requires government funding in order to give society the maximum…
Fed’s Hoenig says gold standard “legitimate” system
byI almost spilt my gin and tonic this evening when I read on Reuters that the current Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig…
James Turk: The UK government’s borrowing and spending policy could trigger next major world financial crisis
byWith the UK government continuing to borrow and spend at record amounts — with British government debt increasing each month, where the man on…
Those Dishonest Goldsmiths
byMy second beach reading has been the above named article. Like the last one I reviewed, this is written by one of the giants…
Banking, Inflation and Recessions
byThe Adam Smith Institute has recently published videos of their Liberty Lectures, held at Cass Business School last August. The room was overflowing with…
Incredible shrinking money
byThe UK’s shilling (5p) over time 1916 to today. (All coins are equivalent to one twentieth of a GBP pound sterling, 5p today) Over…
Financial Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on… Spain?
byFor over a decade we have heard reports of China’s increasing world dominance. Yet while Beijing has amassed a large war chest of savings…
Did Hayek and Robbins Deepen the Great Depression?
byI always love sitting on the beach in the Caribbean post Christmas, catching up with my neglected reading and getting lots of strange stares…
Huerta de Soto introduces Bagus’ book, The Tragedy of the Euro
byThe following is Jesús Huerta de Soto’s foreword to The Tragedy of the Euro by Philipp Bagus, a friend of The Cobden Centre. You can…