Cobden Partners Launched
byOne of our regular Cobden Centre contributors, Gordon Kerr, is a structured finance banker who recently co-drafted a Bill put before the UK Parliament…
May, 2011
Jamie Whyte: The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
byThe Cobden Centre’s Jamie Whyte writes an excellent piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal on the alleged economic merits of currency devaluation; he…
Market Thoughts: Commodities, U.S. Treasuries, Greece
byAccording to the mainstream press, the reason behind the present sell-off in commodities – and in many so-called ‘risk-assets’ (stupid really, all assets are…
The People vs. Goldman Sachs
byThe latest Rolling Stone article from ‘Vampire Squid‘ author Matt Taibbi: They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most…
A Long Way from Reaching Our Peak
byInspired, among others, by the typically apocalyptic, ecological maunderings of Jeremy Grantham (the renowned investor here providing us with classic evidence of the general…
Book Review: Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse
byWhen the bestriding Colossus of Murray N. Rothbard departed this mortal coil, he left the rest of us with the hallowed gift of his…
Gerard Casey: The Worldview of Murray Rothbard
byIn a fascinating interview — which I for one would have loved to see go on for at least an entire afternoon — Jeff…
Philipp Bagus: Currency and Economic Collapse
byProfessor Philipp Bagus, who has recently joined our Cobden Centre Advisory Board, spoke last week to Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute,…
Interview with an Austrian — Jesús Huerta de Soto
byI’ve just discovered a recent interview with Professor Huerta de Soto, released on April the 15th, this year. Okay, so this is hardly ‘hot…
Friday video interlude: The dollar is in its death throes
byAlthough we must bear in mind that one of these gentlemen works for a fund which holds a billion dollars worth of private gold…