Phases of the crisis – are we approaching the endgame?
Phase 1: Greenspan, the arch money crank The Greenspan “put”, and the collective adoption by most central bankers of low interest rates after the…
Toby Baxendale
“Toby Baxendale is an entrepreneur who built up, amongst other things, the UK's largest fresh fish supplier to the Food Service sector, see <a href="http://www.directseafoods.co.uk/">www.directseafoods.co.uk</a>, and recently sold it. Toby is dedicated to furthering the teaching of the Austrian school of economics. He established and funded the 1st Distinguished Hayek Visiting Teaching Fellowship Program at the LSE in Honour of the Nobel Laureate F A Hayek. Toby is Chairman of The Cobden Centre. Richard Cobden's timeless principles of the abolition of legal privilege of the few at the expense of the many are worthy in this day and age to promote.
The fight of the century redux: Murphy vs. Smith
Exciting news from Mises.org: The great debate between Keynesians and Austrians enters the digital age with the Mises Academy’s first ever online formal debate,…
The demise of central planning
As a young man, Prof Ebeling witnessed first hand the demise of the Soviet system. The article below is a truly remarkable eye witness…
Hayek vs Keynes debate rebroadcast
Back in the ’30s, at the time of the original Keynes-Hayek debate, Hayek had a solid methodological system that could explain the causes of…
Jack Farchy in the FT on $5000 gold
FT – Bullion bulls talk of $5000 gold Historically, gold and silver were the money of choice, freely chosen by the people as the…
Charles Moore reviews Keynes vs Hayek
I was pleased to see the LSE’s recent Hayek vs Keynes debate picked up by Charles Moore at The Telegraph: The Hayekians, led by…
What type of Free Banking do we want?
The article below represents the intellectual endeavours of two of the young stars of the Austrian School to address some of what they describe…
The privileged few have eaten everybody else’s lunch
Another great interview with Sean Corrigan on CNBC Airtime: Mon. Jul. 18 2011 | 7:00 AM ET Big US banks should have been allowed…
AEP: Return of the Gold Standard as world order unravels
Cobden Centre readers may find it heartening that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is now showing an interest in hard money: On one side of the Atlantic,…
Homo oeconomicus and the monetary basis for a Big Society
Jesse Norman’s book on the Big Society, which I reviewed recently, caused me to reflect once again on Homo Oeconomicus, that totally un-human being,…