
Bank reform demands monetary reform – an essay for Banking 2020
This article was published yesterday at stevebaker.info. Today sees the return of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill to Parliament. It does not do enough. In…
Read MoreThis article was published yesterday at stevebaker.info. Today sees the return of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill to Parliament. It does not do enough. In…
Read MoreIf central banking were a stock, you’d go short. Blue-chip mystique still clings to it but you can feel the reputational parabola slowly gathering…
Read MoreJames Turk interviews Doug Casey, the American-born economist, professional investor, author and advocate of the free market, in an illuminating, entertaining and yet ultimately…
Read MoreA brilliant video from our friends at SaveOurSavers, celebrating 15 years of the Monetary Policy Committee:
Read MoreMore unemployment. More recession. More massive public debt. More print-more-money-and-pray quantitative easing. More Mervyn King bleating on about the stalled economy – but failing to…
Read More“In my several decades as a financial and economics commentator – covering banking crises dating back to the early 1970s and the Latin American…
Read MoreSince the Great Financial Crisis started (in truth, since well before), we have unwaveringly maintained three main tenets in relation to how one should…
Read MoreThe UK is in sorry shape today. The British can at least take comfort in knowing that things are still not anywhere near as…
Read MoreVia Tom Clougherty at the Adam Smith Institute, Mervyn King and narrow banking: Ultimately, the problem with modern banks is that they do not operate…
Read MoreIn a speech last night in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne the head of the UK’s central bank continued on his admirable path of admitting that the banking…
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