The Government’s asset fire sale
byGordon Kerr explains the futility of the Government’s planned asset fire sale. The Government plans “a fire sale of assets worth £16 billion” to…
Projections Past and Future: Economic Imagination and the Financial Crisis 2007 – 2012
byVia Mercatus Center at George Mason University – Projections Past and Future: Economic Imagination and the Financial Crisis 2007 – 2012, a new working paper…
UK must not let ‘zombie’ banks drain the economy – Telegraph
byLiam Halligan writing in the Telegraph: Japan didn’t stagnate in the 1990s because it refused to do QE and a massive fiscal expansion, or…
Material Evidence – bonds and new money
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: bond yields, new money, state borrowing and the difficulty of making sound business decisions in the present environment. Read the…
Why Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
byToby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
CentreRight: We’re all fiscal conservatives now?
byVia CentreRight: We’re all fiscal conservatives now?: There is an enormous weight of expectation riding on George Osborne’s speech on Tuesday. But in the…
CentreRight: Manchesterism
byVia CentreRight: Manchesterism, ConservativeHome explores the ideas shared by our inspiration, Richard Cobden: Most of us in the South associate “the North” politically as…
FT.com | Putting an end to financial crises
byA second FT article discussing 100% reserves: T’was the year the country stood still. Not a car, truck, or bus rode the roads. No…
The Sub-Prime Debacle – What Will Future Historians Say?
byLiam Halligan has kindly agreed to publication of the transcript of his address to the Cobden Centre/Libertarian Alliance dinner on 30 September 2009. INTRODUCTION…
The Filter^: Debating QE with Stephanie Flanders
byCobden Centre Founding Fellow Dr. Anthony J. Evans debates QE with Stephanie Flanders. Indeed Stephanie and I agreed that this is completely unchartered territory…