Inside Job: The Movie
byThe rise of Michael Moore in recent years has been quite a phenomenon. Some perhaps thought in the 1950s that they had seen the…
March, 2011
A Note on the Notice of Withdrawal Clause
byRegular readers of this site may be aware of a debate relating to the contractual devices that banks might use to ensure that they…
Freedom Week 2011
byFor several years now there has been a highly successful seminar held at Sidney Sussex college, at the University of Cambridge. Around 30 undergraduates…
Cobden Centre Radio: Brian Micklethwait interviews Detlev Schlichter
byBrian Micklethwait speaks to Detlev Schlichter on his upcoming book, Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown. As…
Video: Eliminating Monetary Externalities, Philipp Bagus
byAs promised, here is the video of Professor Philipp Bagus delivering this year’s Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, at the Austrian Scholars Conference, in…
Mike Haywood’s “Global Banking Crisis Digest”
byWord reaches Cobden Centre Towers of Dr Mike Haywood’s latest banking crisis digest. It’s almost reached the point where we hardly dare open the…
Riots and earthquakes are good for business
bySeveral thoughts pirouetted across my mind as I watched the coverage of Saturday’s protest and riots. I wondered why anti-capitalists were wearing clothing with…
We Who Dared to Say No to War
byJeffrey Tucker interviews Thomas E. Woods. Jr about his book, We Who Dared to Say No to War
From Lombard Street to Easy Street
byThe old adage about how to succeed in banking was the formula of ‘3-6-3’: borrow at 3%, lend at 6% and get onto the…
The Spectator Goes Austrian (This Week Anyway)
byI had a meeting two years ago with James Forsyth, the editor of The Spectator, and talked about the alternative world of Austrian Economics, how…