Liam Halligan: Why we need to follow the Irish and restructure our ‘zombie’ banks
byLiam Halligan writes another excellent piece in today’s Telegraph. Here’s my favourite quote: In the UK, senior Labour politicians, who earlier in their careers…
Gordon Brown, according to Gary North
byI was cheerfully minding my own business, on the 6:53 into Paddington this morning, when I was startled into alertness by the following quote…
Deleveraging vs Leviathan
byMuch ink has been spilled (and some even coherently applied) over the vexed subject of ‘deleveraging’ and its likely impact upon the economy-at-large. For…
A response to Posen
bySean Corrigan sent me a link to a great article by Alen Mattich in the Wall Street Journal blogs section. He described it as…
Criticising farmers for the CAP
bySteve Baker’s latest article for Centre Right is one of his best: I listened to Comrade Milliband’s tedious historical revisionism with interest: apparently New…
Cobden Centre Radio: Steve Baker MP
byIn our latest 26-minute Cobden Centre Radio show, I interview Steve Baker MP about his Austrian path into the world of politics and how…
Good plumbers and bad bankers
byTwo defences of the penalization of prudence, as a response to the current economic circumstances, have been published in the last couple of days….
News from Commissar Charles Bean
byNews flash from the Commissariat of Monetary, Mystical and Magical Affairs: A glorious bountiful future is upon us! Science has conclusively proven that savings…
Jesús Huerta de Soto – Hayek Lecture 2010
byOn Thursday the 28th of October, Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Jesús Huerta de Soto will be giving this year’s Hayek Lecture at the LSE….
Farage saying what many people want to say on Europe
byNigel Farage, on form: