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…
The Peter Schiff Show
byStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, silence the pianos, and with muffled drum…
Plaza Accord redux
byAs we head into what will, in all probability, turn out to be just another tax-payer soaking, fatuous gab-fest, the G20 meeting has begun…
Liam Halligan: Coalition claims of ‘pulling Britain back from the brink’ are nonsense
byAnother brilliant piece from Liam Halligan on the inadequacies of the UK’s feeble coalition government, which is dressing itself up as a sheep in…
The ABC(T) of the Crisis
by‘And on one occasion I almost got [Keynes] to understand what I mean when I tried to explain to him that in certain circumstances…
View from the bridge
byFollowing the creation of The Cobden Centre by its Chairman, Toby Baxendale, today the organisation is starting to come to the end of its…
Niall Ferguson on Keynesianism
bySteve Baker’s researcher, Tim Hewish, found an interesting CNN interview with Niall Ferguson on the US approach to the economic crisis: … the way…