Are the Banks to Blame?
byMuch has been made of the recent appearance of Bob Diamond, the Barclays Chief Executive, before the Treasury Select Committee. Diamond attempted to defend…
Economics
Robust Political Economy
byA promising new book from Mark Pennington: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical…
Who’s the Real Counterfeiter?
byThe Royal Mint is increasingly wary of criminal gangs copying their efforts. In a sampling of the currency in circulation across Britain in 2008,…
Liam Halligan: Our currency has gone West and stagflation will soon be upon us
byThe excellent Mr Liam Halligan is back on form again with another superb article in today’s Sunday Telegraph. In a smörgåsbord of delights, let…
Sir John Vickers: How to Regulate the Capital and Corporate Structures of Banks?
byThe long-awaited thoughts of Sir John Vickers were published this afternoon and are available to read below: How to Regulate the Capital and Corporate…
One for the weekend: Jim Rickards discusses $100 trillion dollars worth of new debt designed to solve fiat currency problem
byThe upcoming world power elite meeting at Davos will decide that the debt slaves of the world who fund their riches need to be…
Robert P. Murphy: The Theory of Central Banking
byBased heavily upon the brilliant Murray N. Rothbard book, The Mystery of Banking, Robert P. Murphy delivers an excellent lecture on the “theory” (such…
Reactions to Robert Peston’s documentary
byI’ve been really encouraged by the response to Robert Peston’s documentary, Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?. Lots of people are waking up to…
The day the ECB lost its last credibility
byJanuary 14th 2011 is the day on which the Greek government ultimately would have failed. Only extreme interventions by the ECB, breaking former promises,…
BBC: Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?
byFor those who may have missed it, the Cobden Centre’s very own Toby Baxendale and Gordon Kerr played key roles in a BBC documentary…