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…
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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…
Sprott and Faber on KWN
byWith paper currencies plummeting downwards at the moment, as silver and gold hold their positions at higher and higher paper money prices, we may…
High Tax Britain
byHave you ever wondered how much tax you truly pay? In order to do the calculation, VAT, national insurance contributions from both employees and…
Video: The Forgotten Cause of Sound Money, with David Stockman
byThe Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, presented by David Stockman at the Austrian Scholars Conference, as recorded on 12 March, 2011, at the Ludwig von…
Sign of the times? IG Index Event Mapping Campaign
byI got quite a shock, this week, when I was brutally awoken from my usual somnolent ‘Tube-Traveller’ state, by the following billboard advertisement; this…