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With the UK government continuing to borrow and spend at record amounts — with British government debt increasing each month, where the man on…
My second beach reading has been the above named article. Like the last one I reviewed, this is written by one of the giants…
The Adam Smith Institute has recently published videos of their Liberty Lectures, held at Cass Business School last August. The room was overflowing with…
The UK’s shilling (5p) over time 1916 to today. (All coins are equivalent to one twentieth of a GBP pound sterling, 5p today) Over…
For over a decade we have heard reports of China’s increasing world dominance. Yet while Beijing has amassed a large war chest of savings…
I always love sitting on the beach in the Caribbean post Christmas, catching up with my neglected reading and getting lots of strange stares…
The 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…
It is alleged that when the velocity of money rises, all other thing being equal, the buying power of money declines ie the prices…
Walter Bagehot’s 1865 obituary of Richard Cobden, from the Online Library of Liberty (H/T Sean Corrigan). Twenty-three years ago—and it is very strange that…
The more financial history one reads, the more powerful the sense of deja vu becomes and also the greater grows the appreciation of the…