Further reflections on Alchemists of Loss
byLast week I presented a book review of Alchemists of Loss [1]. Now I seek to explore the errors of Modern Financial Theory in more…
Peter Schiff: Wall Street Unspun, 23rd of June
byThe small but determined worldwide movement to reform global monetary policies, based upon Austrian School economics, took a blip upwards last week when Peter…
A Problem with the Baxendale Plan?
byOn this website Toby Baxendale presented his plan for monetary reform. He offered a reward of £1000 for anyone who can provide a logical…
The Dollar Bubble: Ben Bernanke needs fresh monetary blitz as US recovery falters
byIn reference to Sean Corrigan’s latest piece on the problems that Ben Bernanke is facing, Cobden Centre readers may want to refresh their background…
USA enters the double dip
byFor those of you who have read AEP’s latest Armageddon story in the Telegraph, though the details of his ‘monetary’ analysis are, of course,…
Our Dysfunctional Financial Services Sector: Is there a solution?
byI attended an interesting lecture at Civitas, on Wednesday night (23rd of June), given by Dr Paul Woolley on the title above. Dr Woolley’s…
Alchemists of Loss
byHow Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Finance System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson , Published by Wiley 2010. This book is…
Austrian economics come to CentreRight
byCobden Centre trustee and MP for Wycombe, Steve Baker, has begun writing for CentreRight. In his first article, he describes the righteous indignation that…
Kevin Dowd blogs Steve’s speech in the budget debate
byProfessor Kevin Dowd blogs my speech in the budget debate for the IEA: By far the best contribution to the parliamentary debate on the…
Are the Chinese moving into the endgame with the Dollar?
byThe Chinese government has many financial problems coming up, the worst of which is trying to get rid of all those US Treasury securities…