Goodbye Dollar: Has the Federal Reserve given up?
byBloomberg has released a report (October 28th) which indicates that the US Federal Reserve has finally given up the Halloween ghost and has laid…
Cobden Centre Radio: Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto; Economic Recessions, Banking Reform and the Future of Capitalism
byA professionally-shot and edited video of Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Jesús Huerta de Soto’s recent scintillating and inspirational speech at the LSE, delivered on…
Weak foundations
byThis article was first published in New Law Journal on the 1st of May 2009, and is reproduced by kind permission (http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/). The Safety…
Economic Recessions, Banking Reform and the Future of Capitalism
byThe London School of Economics and Political Science Hayek Memorial Lecture October 28, 2010 It is a great honor for me to have been…
Jim Rogers: How I See the World Today
byIn two of my favourite novels by Neal Stephenson, ‘Snow Crash’ and ‘The Diamond Age’, we see the breakdown of the nation state and…
George Monbiot remains clueless when it comes to his perceived free market enemies
byI read this yesterday and almost fell off my chair laughing. As ever, George Monbiot remains totally clueless about the ideas, motivations and complexities…
Inflated Expectations
byHaving thus far given his platform almost exclusively over to a Moody’s-mollifying PR campaign regarding ‘austerity’, British PM David Cameron this week decided that…
Cobden Centre Radio: James Tyler on markets, recovery, and the banking sector
byIn a fascinating 36 minute interview, Cobden Centre Radio’s very own Brian Micklethwait speaks to James Tyler, the Chief Executive of Tyler Capital and…
Banking: From Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again
byAs reported yesterday on Mises.org, there were some very encouraging statements in Mervyn King’s Monday speech to the Buttonwood Gathering in New York. King…
Jeremy Warner: Will someone please shut Krugman up
byThis article is not remarkable for its message, which is straight down the line for those of us who follow the Cobden Centre, but…