More on Banking and the Barclays 2009 Results
bySome of my City friends who work in banking have had a look at the 2009 Barclays balance sheet and made comment on how…
Economics
A proud husband
byMy wife, Helen, is director of Nurses for Reform which is a campaign organisation that she set up back in 2006 to oppose the politicisation…
Austrian economics, meeting Lew Rockwell and having time with Ron Paul
byAs previously mentioned on this blog, TCC’s Chairman Toby Baxendale and I traveled to Jeykell Island in the US the weekend before last to…
The Crack-up Boom
byThis post is excerpted from Mises’ “The Causes of the Economic Crisis and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression” which is available…
The Ethics of Capitalism: A Secular and a Theological Justification
byThe current debate about bankers’ bonuses is often seen as one of fairness pitted against the greed of those nasty capitalists,. To me, bankers…
Ron Paul predicts a further crisis
byRon Paul shows that Austrian economics can be popular in the mainstream media and predicts a currency crisis.
Some people doodle pictures
bySome people doodle pictures, but I’m the type who mucks around random bits of historical price data just to see where it goes. For…
Why I Founded the Cobden Centre
byI founded the Cobden Centre inspired by the writing of F A Hayek, particularly his reference in “Denationalization of Money: the Argument Refined” (IEA,…
Presbyterian Mutual Society and a Solution to Pay out all its Creditors and its Place in the Honest Money Movement
byA bank , building society that uses factional reserves, lends long and pays out short is only going to exist should confidence be kept…
Steve Baker speaks at the IEA on fiscal policy
byOn Tuesday, I spoke at the IEA’s The State of the Economy conference, participating in a panel discussion on Fiscal Policy and Government Expenditure…