New Book Reveals the Total Cost of Gordon Brown’s mishandling of the economy as £3 TRILLION
byVia the Taxpayers’ Alliance: That’s £50,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK In their new book Fleeced! Matthew Elliott, CEO of…
September, 2009
Don’t regulate banking – liberalise it
byWriting in the Guardian, Dr Anthony J Evans calls for liberalisation of banking. Barack Obama’s speech on Monday to Wall Street outlines an overhaul…
War in Afghanistan
byVia The Guardian At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage…
Moral Markets and Honest Money
byRevised and updated: reconciling our conflicting views of the market through consistent principle and morality. This post originally appeared on www.stevebaker.info. A Christian friend…
‘Footsie pushes above 5,000’ but it will not last
byUpdate: As the Footsie pushes above 5,000, we bring this post forwards and refer readers to Why is the FTSE going up? Hopes for a…
Lord Timon’s Purse
byIn Lord Timon’s Purse, Sean Corrigan explores the causes of the forty US banking failures of 2009 and sets out some of the basics…
FT.com / Global Economy – Goldman chief hits at ‘useless’ banking
byLloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has attacked some investment banking products as socially useless and said that the controversy over bankers’ pay…
Material Evidence
byIn the 1 September 2009 edition of Material Evidence, Sean Corrigan explains why the stock market is rising and why the appearance of prosperity…
Barack Obama accused of making ‘Depression’ mistakes – Telegraph
byBarack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James…
Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online
byResponding to an article in The Times, Steven Baker indicates the origins of our views on the economic situation and its causes, of our…