The Dollar Bubble: Ben Bernanke needs fresh monetary blitz as US recovery falters
byIn reference to Sean Corrigan’s latest piece on the problems that Ben Bernanke is facing, Cobden Centre readers may want to refresh their background…
Economics
USA enters the double dip
byFor those of you who have read AEP’s latest Armageddon story in the Telegraph, though the details of his ‘monetary’ analysis are, of course,…
Our Dysfunctional Financial Services Sector: Is there a solution?
byI attended an interesting lecture at Civitas, on Wednesday night (23rd of June), given by Dr Paul Woolley on the title above. Dr Woolley’s…
Alchemists of Loss
byHow Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Finance System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson , Published by Wiley 2010. This book is…
Austrian economics come to CentreRight
byCobden Centre trustee and MP for Wycombe, Steve Baker, has begun writing for CentreRight. In his first article, he describes the righteous indignation that…
Are the Chinese moving into the endgame with the Dollar?
byThe Chinese government has many financial problems coming up, the worst of which is trying to get rid of all those US Treasury securities…
Beware of Mr. Wolf
byThe Saving Grace In a recent editorial, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times – and one of the Tories’ newly appointed Wise Men on…
Emergency Budget – Reconsider the Capital-Gains Tax Hike
byAlan McCormick of Legatum wrote an excellent article for yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: Shortly after taking office in May, Britain’s new chief secretary to…
UK budget live!
byI will be live blogging the budget from 12:30pm onwards for Reuters – you can join the debate here. As part of the build…
Jesse Norman’s maiden speech
byWe welcome Jesse Norman’s maiden speech in the House of Commons. The final section is the most relevant to our readers: Now, the idea…