Last one out, please turn out the lights
byThe release of China’s latest batch of inconsistent and methodologically opaque official statistics were—cue Captain Louis Renault for effect—just about perfect for the job…
Economics
Euroland: an Austrian view
byIn the last two weeks the headlines have switched from Greece to Italy. Financial and economic commentators who dismissed Greece as a small cog…
Haldane’s “control rights (and wrongs)”
byIn the wake of the crisis, the question of whether financial markets are capable of effective self-regulation took centre stage. The near unanimous verdict…
More regulation is not a good thing
byA common interpretation of the credit crunch and ensuing global turmoil is that it was all down to unregulated or under-regulated financial institutions and…
Monetary policy is not all about pulling levers
byMy latest article for City A.M. I’M A big fan of the Bank of England museum. I find the way it attempts to educate…
Hectic public speaking agenda brings powerful psychic rewards
byA couple of weeks ago Tom Clougherty of the Adam Smith Institute and I addressed a senior group of Chinese officials from Beijing. We…
Give us your fiat money!
byAs you can see here, the Cobden Centre is now busy signing up supporters through monthly subscriptions. To promote our independence and integrity we…
TCC established as Europe’s leading scholarly centre for honest money and social progress
byThe Cobden Centre has now put in place its pan-European network of Senior Fellows making it Europe’s leading scholarly centre for honest money and…
Christina’s toxic cookbook
byKeynesian and other mainstream economists cannot explain the present crisis. That doesn’t seem to bother them. All they can offer is a description of…
Europe’s underground economies
byOne significant issue arising in the crisis has been the size of some European underground economies. Politicians seek measures to increase public revenues as…