The Cobden Centre - For honest money and social progress For honest money and social progress
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Literature
    • Primer
    • Download
    • Bookstore
  • Links
  • Contact us
  • Sign up
  • About
    • Our Vision
    • Our Approach
    • Our Team
    • European Fellows
    • Academic Fellows
    • Our Advisory Board
    • Our Thanks
    • PRIVACY POLICY
  • Donate
Colin Lloyd

Colin Lloyd

Colin has worked in the financial and commodity markets since 1981. He started his career in physical commodities moving on to a futures and options brokerage in 1987. Here he focused on servicing bank proprietary traders, global macro and relative-value fixed income hedge funds together with managed futures advisors. He was also instrumental in the development of interest rate and credit default swaps businesses. In December 2013 he launched a macroeconomic newsletter – In the Long Run – focussing on macroeconomics and financial markets. He has recently became a director of AAIN - Asian Alternative Investments Network – a non-profit industry group with which he has been involved since its inception in 2007.

A Plan to Engender Prosperity in Perfidious Albion – from Pariah to Paragon
Free Trade5 July 16<5 July 16

A Plan to Engender Prosperity in Perfidious Albion – from Pariah to Paragon

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” “When goods do not cross borders,…

Read More
Will Japan be the first to test the limits of quantitative easing?
Economics24 June 16<24 June 16

Will Japan be the first to test the limits of quantitative easing?

The Japanese stock market peaked in December 1989, marking the end of a period of economic expansion which briefly saw Japan eclipse the USA…

Read More
Economics23 May 16<20 May 16

The levee gonna break – Debt, demographics, productivity and financialization

 In a March paper from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank – The Lasting Damage from the Financial Crisis to U.S. Productivity – the…

Read More
Quantitative to qualitative – is unelected nationalisation next?
Economics11 April 16<8 April 16

Quantitative to qualitative – is unelected nationalisation next?

Last year, in a paper entitled The Stock Market Crash Really Did Cause the Great Recession – Roger Farmer of UCLA argued that the…

Read More
Why did Japanese NIRP cause such surprise in the currency market and is it more dangerous?
Economics18 February 16<16 February 16

Why did Japanese NIRP cause such surprise in the currency market and is it more dangerous?

The Bank of Japan announcement of NIRP sent shock waves through currency markets The Yen has strengthened on capital repatriation since the BoJ move…

Read More
Money2 February 16<29 January 16

Central Banks – Ah Aaaaahhh! – Saviours of the Universe?

Copryright: Universal Pictures Freight rates have fallen below 2008 levels With the oil price below $30 many US producers are unprofitable The Fed has…

Read More
What’s right with the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Free Trade, Richard Cobden26 October 15<23 October 15

What’s right with the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

The TPP may boost real-incomes by $285bln by 2025 US Congress should approve the TPP to avoid international political embarrassment The TPP may be…

Read More
Economics7 July 15<5 July 15

Which way now – FTSE, Gilts, Sterling and the EU referendum?

Uncertainty is bad for business and the UK will struggle ahead of the referendum Gilt yields have been around 150bps higher than Bunds over…

Read More
US Growth and employment – can the boon of cheap energy eclipse the collapse of energy investment?
Economics22 June 15<22 June 15

US Growth and employment – can the boon of cheap energy eclipse the collapse of energy investment?

Last year’s oil price falls are still feeding through to the wider economy Oil producing states have remained resilient despite the continued lower price…

Read More
Rising yields and rising correlation in major bond markets – end of cycle or correction?
Economics28 May 15<28 May 15

Rising yields and rising correlation in major bond markets – end of cycle or correction?

European bond yields have risen following the lead of US treasuries Yield curves are steepening despite minimal inflation A return to the natural rate…

Read More
Posts pagination
1 … 5 6 7 8
May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Apr    

Categories

Tags

100% reserve banking Austrian School Bank Credit Banking Bank of England Ben Bernanke blog Central Banking China deflation ECB Economic Cycles Economics Essentials Euro F A Hayek Federal Reserve Financial Stability Fractional Reserve Banking Free trade GDP Gold gold standard Greece Honest Money Huerta de Soto Inflation Insight Keynes Keynesianism King World News Lending Markets Mises monetary policy Money money supply Paul Krugman Peter Schiff Quantitative Easing Reform Regulation Risk Sean Corrigan Sovereign Debt
Powered by WordPress. Created by ThemesIndep
Back to top
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Literature
    • Primer
    • Download
    • Bookstore
  • Links
  • Contact us
  • Sign up
  • About
    • Our Vision
    • Our Approach
    • Our Team
    • European Fellows
    • Academic Fellows
    • Our Advisory Board
    • Our Thanks
    • PRIVACY POLICY
  • Donate