Why do savers distrust the banks?
bySimon Rose and his colleagues at Save Our Savers are good friends of The Cobden Centre. Anyone doubting the rising concern of millions of…
Quantitative Easing
The economic consequences of central bankers
by Douglas CarswellMore 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…
To QE or not to QE?
by Anthony J. EvansI was recently quoted in Management Today with some thoughts on current monetary policy: The Bank of England’s policy rate has been historically low…
Did QE work?
by Anthony J. EvansI think this is a complicated question to answer, and both sides of the debate have a tendency to over simplify. If we understand…
The second crisis of socialism
by Detlev SchlichterThe world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever,” the Governor of the Bank of England said…
No Mt Rushmore for today’s interventionists
by Sean CorriganSince the Great Financial Crisis started (in truth, since well before), we have unwaveringly maintained three main tenets in relation to how one should…
Quantitative easing: when there’s nowhere left to run
by Alasdair MacleodOver the last few weeks there has been a growing realisation that the weaker members of the eurozone are caught in debt traps. When…
Daniel Hannan on our money-printing masters
by Toby BaxendaleAs we feared, the wise men at the Bank of England have decided that what our ailing economy needs is another dose of QE….
The Fed is very nearly bust
by Mark GoodhandIn his latest article for ConservativeHome, Steve Baker considers the viability of America’s central bank: A review of the US Federal Reserve’s own document:…
Jamie Whyte discusses QE on Radio 4
by Anthony J. EvansThe Cobden Centre’s Jamie Whyte appeared on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning to discuss the prospect of further quantitative easing in the US and…