Loose Money, Asset Price Cycles and the Decapitalization of the United States
Ben’s Bubbles and the Bonfire of American Capital Prepared by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson[1] for the 28th Cato Institute Annual Monetary Conference Asset…
Prof Kevin Dowd
Professor Kevin Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the Cobden Centre and a long-standing free market economist whose main work has been on free banking and unregulated monetary systems. Over the years, he has written extensively on the history and theory of free banking, the mechanics of monetary systems without the state and the failings of central banking and financial regulation.
Unreconstructed Keynesianism is alive and well
In a recent video interview in the Daily Telegraph (October 7, 2010), Keynes’s biographer, the noted historian Professor Lord Skidelsky, gives us the benefits…
The UK is Broke
Although few people yet realise it, the UK is bankrupt: the Government cannot pay its debts. This might sound a little pessimistic. After all,…
Calls for further monetary expansion are cuckoo
In today’s Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives a splendid analysis of the dire fiscal problems facing the developed economies, but a dreadful analysis of their…
Lessons from the financial crisis: a libertarian perspective
This article is an expanded version of the Second Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Dowd at the National Liberal Club, London,…