CentreRight: We’re all fiscal conservatives now?
byVia CentreRight: We’re all fiscal conservatives now?: There is an enormous weight of expectation riding on George Osborne’s speech on Tuesday. But in the…
Economics
CentreRight: Manchesterism
byVia CentreRight: Manchesterism, ConservativeHome explores the ideas shared by our inspiration, Richard Cobden: Most of us in the South associate “the North” politically as…
FT.com | Putting an end to financial crises
byA second FT article discussing 100% reserves: T’was the year the country stood still. Not a car, truck, or bus rode the roads. No…
The Sub-Prime Debacle – What Will Future Historians Say?
byLiam Halligan has kindly agreed to publication of the transcript of his address to the Cobden Centre/Libertarian Alliance dinner on 30 September 2009. INTRODUCTION…
The Filter^: Debating QE with Stephanie Flanders
byCobden Centre Founding Fellow Dr. Anthony J. Evans debates QE with Stephanie Flanders. Indeed Stephanie and I agreed that this is completely unchartered territory…
FT.com / Martin Wolf – Why narrow banking alone is not the finance solution
byFT columnist Martin Wolf considers narrow banking and 100% reserves. The FT has a new series on the future of investment. But what, I…
Material Evidence – Recovery or crisis?
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: the declaration of the end of the recession vs cries of crisis, the role of business spending, new money, the…
Material Evidence – Back to the 70s
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: US unemployment, the UK’s staggering recovery to 1974 levels of manufacturing output, energy investment and the performance of gold and…
Is a Liquidity Trap Possible? Beware of those who do not understand the Structure of Production.
byThe essential idea of a Liquidity Trap as expounded by J M Keynes in this “General Theory” is that there is a point in…
Animal Farm
bySept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Private investors in China, the world’s largest metals user, have stockpiled “substantial” quantities of copper as the government ramps up…