The resource cost of a gold standard
byWe are currently incurring costs akin to having a gold standard – in that we are using gold for monetary purposes, as an inflation…
We are currently incurring costs akin to having a gold standard – in that we are using gold for monetary purposes, as an inflation…
I am not holding my breath over the Republicans’ plans for another gold commission to investigate the possibility of returning the USA to a…
Two Bloomberg correspondents reported on August 8 that the US Government’s unfunded liabilities rose by $11 trillion last year, “ten times larger than the…
I am delighted that Fraser Nelson and the Spectator have picked up something we have been saying all the time for our nearly three…
I’m not aware of any unconditional support for central banking as such around The Cobden Centre but, nevertheless, occasionally a central banker says something…
I am very happy and proud to announce that Paper Money Collapse – The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown has…
Readers of the Cobden Centre may be interested in a new book by Paul Knott. “Ouch!: Ignorance is Bliss, Except when It Hurts –…
Although most people reading these pages are familiar with the idea of gold becoming money once again, as it was for so many millennia…
The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on August 22nd that scheduled tax increases and spending cuts in 2013 would reverse the current modest…
The other day I happened to be talking to a politician who was also a successful entrepreneur. He knew of the absurdity that when…
