Dangerous Etatism
byAnd so the beat goes on. Etatiste Nobel winner Stiglitz rails that ‘austerity’ (wherever THAT is being practised) is an economic ‘disaster’; étatiste Nobel…
What is “Right-wing”?
byOver at CentreRight, I ask What is “Right-wing”?: So the Conservative Party for over 100 years has become the defender of the individual against…
The Financial Sense Newshour: Golden Opportunities
byFor those who enjoy listening to Wall Street Unspun, King World News, the Lew Rockwell Show, and Mises Media, another excellent programme within a…
Who will protect us from the central bank?
byEarlier this week, John Redwood MP posed some difficult questions for Mervyn King: Why did the Bank so misread the cycle 2005-9? Why did…
A historic day: reactions to the Regulation of Deposits and Lending Bill
byThe 15th of September, 2010 was truly a historic day. In response to the bill presented on Wednesday by MPs Douglas Carswell and Steve…
Philip Booth: What ministers should learn from Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
byThere is a great article by Philip Booth over at CentreRight, on Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty: In essence it explains how a complex…
Joseph T. Salerno: Calculation and Socialism
byOne of the greatest contributions of Ludwig von Mises to the modern world was his sweeping demolition of the intellectual case for Karl Marx’s…
Austrian Economics: Past, Present and Future
byOur friends at the Adam Smith Institute are hosting an event next week to launch Dr Eamonn Butler’s latest book, Austrian Economics: A Primer:…
Jim Rickards: The Keynesian Fractionator
byYou hear it on the BBC, when James Naughtie talks about the ‘Pump Prime’; it is what lies behind every recent speech by Obama,…
First reading of Carswell’s Financial Services Bill
byDouglas Carswell MP yesterday delivered a superb speech in support of his eagerly anticipated Financial Services (Regulation of Deposits and Lending) Bill, introduced as…