Something for the Weekend: Taming the Vampire Squid
As Murray Rothbard said in Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty, we must discover who are friends and allies are, as well as…
Vampire squid
Life, but not as we know it
“We have the best government that money can buy.” – Mark Twain. It says a lot about the financial establishment that the most revelatory…
Muppets 1 Gollums 0
It was just past 7:00 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, September 13, 2008. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, went into his home…
The People vs. Goldman Sachs
The latest Rolling Stone article from ‘Vampire Squid‘ author Matt Taibbi: They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most…
Book Review: Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays
The remarkable thing about being an aspiring Rothbardian, is that no matter how much Rothbard you read, the next virgin Rothbard book up on…
Barclays, bonuses, and backdoor bailouts
Bob Diamond gave a spirited defence of himself and his industry yesterday at a Parliamentary select committee hearing. Surely it is hard to disagree…
Sean Corrigan: “if banks simply had to comply with basic, everyday property and contractual law;”
Sean Corrigan, Chief Investment Strategist at Diapason Commodities Management, has kindly agreed to the reproduction of his briefing “Material Evidence” by the Cobden Centre….