Money is not working.
A speech to the Policy Exchange on 31st March 2009 by Cobden Centre sponsor James Tyler. This article first appeared on hedgehedge.com but it…
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CentreRight: On economic forecasting and double-dip recession
Over at CentreRight, I have set out briefly the mistake presently being made by policymakers in the US, which I expect to be mirrored in…
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Some people doodle pictures
Some people doodle pictures, but I’m the type who mucks around random bits of historical price data just to see where it goes. For…
Read MoreThe kindness of geniuses
I once saw an advertisement for a book that would apparently reveal the secret of making a profit in the foreign exchange markets. I…
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Bastiat’s Iceberg: A Sean Corrigan Masterpiece for Christmas
Sean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities Management packs more sound applied economics into this report than ever: Toby Baxendale provides a commentary. This is a…
Read MoreCan Government Create Wealth?
In this article, I argued that a useful measure of GDP needs to extract the government sector, as all it represents is a movement…
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Tony Deden on Capital Preservation
By kind permission, Tony Deden on capital preservation and the present economy: Despite of what the program says, I do not see myself as an…
Read MoreThe Government’s asset fire sale
Gordon Kerr explains the futility of the Government’s planned asset fire sale. The Government plans “a fire sale of assets worth £16 billion” to…
Read MoreWhy Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
Toby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
Read MoreThe Sub-Prime Debacle – What Will Future Historians Say?
Liam Halligan has kindly agreed to publication of the transcript of his address to the Cobden Centre/Libertarian Alliance dinner on 30 September 2009. INTRODUCTION…
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