Swiss Parliament to discuss gold franc
byFollowing our Cobden Centre Radio interview last week with Thomas Jacob, and his plans to use a democratic Swiss plebiscite to re-introduce a Swiss…
July, 2011
The Streets of Vienna
byA street in Vienna is called a gasse, strasse or platz. There are a few of them named after people who aren’t so popular…
Mark Thornton: Austrian economics versus mainstream economics
byThe excellent Mark Thornton discusses how Austrian economics – the oldest continuous school of economics – both differs from the more recent mathematical mainstream…
Rob Arnott: QE, Fed, inflation, Weimar Germany, investor confidence & more
byMany of us in the mad-eyed gold bug community subscribe to King World News, to seek out affirmation for our crazy lopsided view of…
An updated version of MA
byI have recently updated an “Austrian” measure of the UK money supply labelled MA. The Executive Summary is as follows: The 2008/09 financial crisis…
Is hyperinflation inevitable?
byOne of the major lessons of the financial crisis thus far should be that every bond constitutes credit risk – even those issued by…
Dr. Mark Pennington becomes Senior Fellow with TCC
byI am pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Pennington has just become a Senior Fellow with The Cobden Centre. Currently reader in public policy…
Steve Baker on the IMF
byI follow Steve Baker’s speeches in Hansard with interest, and there have been many good ones, but his recent discourse on the IMF stands…
Steve Baker speaks at the Economic Research Council
byTCC board member, Steve Baker, clearly had fun last week when he spoke to some fifty people at the Economic Research Council. Here is…
Keynes v Hayek at the LSE
byThis will be interesting. An LSE and BBC Radio 4 public debate on Keynes v Hayek is to be held on Tuesday 26 July…