Thursday was Dinner for 17 with Toby Baxendale
byOn Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of chairing a private dinner in Westminster where TCC’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, was the guest speaker. There…
Economics
Wednesday was Gent at the Liberal Archive with LVSV
byFollowing the honour of chairing an Economic Policy Centre dinner in London on Tuesday evening, Wednesday saw me travel to Gent in Belgium where…
Bravo the Hampton School
byFollowing TCC’s recent launch of its Education Network I was delighted to speak to a fabulously bright group of six formers at Hampton School…
‘Heroes’ helped to help themselves!
byI have just listened to the Budget Debate and quite frankly am growing more and more tired of the political point scoring arena that…
The Function of Money
byThis is the first in a series of articles taken from Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1934). Here, we introduce the function…
Arden Partners: Much ado about nothing
byEwen Stewart of Arden Partners has kindly supplied his note The Budget – Much ado about nothing for publication. The backdrop to this budget…
The tab from LEH/AIG so far?
byVia Sean Corrigan and Toby Baxendale, “The tab from LEH/AIG so far? Around about $2 trillion if we look at trend US federal debt…
The market yawns
byWhere’s the market reaction? Yawns the prophet of Princeton, Paul Krugman in response to the passage of Obama’s health care bill. In totally separate…
Cobden on Free Trade and its Relevance Today
byFood is on the whole cheap to us as an advanced or even a post industrial nation. Richard Cobden, with a small group of…
FT.com – We should not be saved from our stupidity
byIt is very hard to play the game of life – or of capitalism – when governments keep changing the rules. Which they do…