The Real Housewives of Wall Street
byThe Real Housewives of Wall Street – Matt Taibbi If you’re an American, this shouldn’t make you angry, it should make you incandescent with…
Economics
The Catholic church in the UK has come a long way from Salamanca
byIn October 2009, Toby and I attended the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Supporters Summit in Salamanca, the birthplace of economic theory: One of the…
Remember: Real Bankers are Fiduciaries
byThe Interim Report on our banking system by Sir John Vickers was released on Monday. There is no mention in all of the report…
Detlev Schlichter: Don’t believe the hype! Why the ECB rate hike doesn’t mean anything.
byLet us establish some principles first. Central banks do indeed pose a risk to economic stability but not because their monetary policy is constantly…
Sound letter in Daily Telegraph
byIn today’s Daily Telegraph, there is a good letter on inflation, ‘quantitative easing’ and the Bank of England. Commenting on institutional processes in which…
Very impressed by the Leadership Institute
byLast week, I spoke on behalf of The Cobden Centre at a very spectacular Leadership Institute event organised at Wellington College – just outside…
TCC at the Liberty League Forum
byI recently spoke at a fabulous event in Birmingham organised by the Liberty League. Called the Liberty League Forum and hosted for 100 young…
A History Lesson for Johann Hari
by“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant”, Ronald Reagan once said, “it’s just that they know so much that isn’t…
The Independent Commission on Banking
by214 Pages Displaying No Confidence in Solving the Banking Crisis My disappointment in the content of the ICB’s preliminary report published yesterday morning was,…
A Gedankenexperiment with Flour
byImagine a country where the average household routinely spends half its $100 income on buying in 4,000 calories a day of flour and half…