Can you trust politicians?
byVia our friends at Instituto Bruno Leoni:
Remove the systemic risk, don’t levy against it
byVia The Guardian, City minister campaigns to protect taxpayer from bank failures: City minister Lord Myners today stepped up the government’s campaign to ensure taxpayers…
The Colours of Money — An Introduction to Associative Economics
byVia The Centre for Associative Economics, the next Colours of Money Seminar takes place in Stroud UK, on the first weekend of February 2010. From…
A Free Money Movement
byAn interesting development in the campaign for free banking has been the emergence of social media. I admit that when I first read F.A….
Banking: the shape of the debate
byShould banks be permitted to operate with a fractional reserve on demand deposits or should 100% reserves be a legal requirement? Should there be…
A brief guide to money and banking
byToday, we publish our brief guide to money and banking. The Guide comprises: Four charts showing how Baxendale and Evans’ measure of the money…
How To Destroy the British Banking System –- Regulatory Arbitrage via ‘Pig on Pork’ Derivatives.
byFinancial engineer Gordon Kerr explains how to destroy the British banking system through the use of derivatives which take advantage of the regulatory system,…
Gordon Kerr at the European Parliament
byThe following is the text of an address by Gordon Kerr, a Cobden Centre Advisory Board Member, to the Brussels Group at the European…
Imagine that the Crisis was a Shortage of Bread
byOne day in October 2008, the UK’s banks all collapsed. Perhaps it would be more accurate to date stamp the collapse one year earlier…
The kindness of geniuses
byI once saw an advertisement for a book that would apparently reveal the secret of making a profit in the foreign exchange markets. I…