Lessons from the financial crisis: a libertarian perspective
This article is an expanded version of the Second Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Dowd at the National Liberal Club, London,…
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Can 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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Strip out the government and Japanese GDP is going backwards
Our good friend of the Cobden Centre, Sean Corrigan, is a wealth of fresh economic insight. Here in this small piece, he shows us that,…
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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 MoreDerivatives and Regulatory Failure – Precipice Bonds
Financial engineer Gordon Kerr presents the prequel to his article How to destroy the British Banking System – Regulatory Arbitrage via “Pig on Pork”…
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Sean Corrigan’s Insight
We are honoured to republish articles by Sean Corrigan. Sean is an economist of the Austrian School Liberal Tradition and Chief Investment Strategist at…
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How to avoid future encounters with financial meltdown
Cobden Centre Advisory Board member and Chief Executive of Tyler Capital, James Tyler, sets out the case for 100% reserve banking. Background In October…
Read MoreThe Errors of Posen, New MPC Recruit
Norma Cohen in the Financial Times of 26 October 2009 wrote: Britain’s economy cannot recover unless its damaged banking system is restructured, the newest…
Read MoreEntrepreneurship and the business cycle
Via the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, our Chairman, Toby Baxendale, and our Founding Fellow, Dr Anthony J. Evans further the monetary theory of…
Read MoreHands off our banks! Neelie Kroes decrees that Britain must split and sell rescued banks now!
Chris Neal outlines his tax payers’ revolt. In October 2008 Messrs Brown and Darling assured the British tax payer that we had a reasonable…
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