Reasons for Anti-Capitalism: Ignorance, Arrogance, and Envy
byWhy is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed? Given the success of the competitive market economy to…
Max debates with Director of IMF Europe on Monetary System
byToday Cobden Centre manager Max Rangeley will give a speech and then have a debate with the Director of IMF Europe at the first…
How to Use Methodological Individualism
byI first met Professor Salin in late 1997, in his office at the University of Paris-Dauphine. When I mentioned that I had been drawn…
What to expect from Central Bankers
byThe Federal Reserve continues to tighten and other Central Banks will follow The BIS expects stocks to lose their lustre and bond yields to…
The Case for A Gold Currency Part 2: Wages and Growth: Higher Under Classical Gold Standard
byBy Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
The Case for A Gold Currency: Part 1
byBy Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
Mises the Man and His Monetary Policy Ideas Based on His “Lost Papers”
byOne day in 1927 Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, stood at the window of his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, and looked…
The Looming Mortgage Liquidity Crisis
byBy Doug French Every 10 years or so there is a banking crisis. We are due. However, the furthest thing from most people’s minds with…
Augsburg: A Capitalist Hub at the Birth of the Modern
byBy Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna Beautiful Augsburg, city of bronzed doors and glory of the German Renaissance, occupies an unusual and mostly unknown position in the history…