Text of “The Death of French Savings, the Russian Bonds Story 1880-1996”
byThe following text is from the notes I made of a talk that I gave to the “End of The World Club” at the…
May, 2014
Don’t Shoot The Speculator!
byEditor’s Note: This article was previously published in The Amphora Report, Vol 5, 09 May 2014. “Capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but…
Keynesian madness: central banks waging war on price stability, savers
by[Editor’s note: This article also appears on Detlev Schlichter’s blog here. It is reproduced with kind permission and should NOT be taken to be…
Matt Ridley on the values of Richard Cobden
byMatt Ridley, in The Times [paywall restricted], considers the political relevance of the values of 19th century Liberals, including Richard Cobden. Surely wanting government…
Technical analysis versus value in gold
byEditor’s note: The Cobden Centre is happy to republish this commentary by Alasdair Macleod, the original can be found here. At the outset I…
Statman’s tour of Britain: are average wages falling?
byIncoming from Tom Paterson, chief economist at “Gold Made Simple”: I’m currently travelling around Europe in my VW campervan with my my wife and…
Straight talk
byThe Cobden Centre has no position on any proposed takeover by one pharmaceutical firm of another. On the plus side, the move by Pfizer…
Ludwig von Mises and the a priori approach to economics
byCobden Centre Senior Fellow Detlev Schlichter has published the text of a recent talk about the a priori approach of Ludwig von Mises to…
Cobden Centre trustee elected to UK parliamentary committee
bySteve Baker MP, one of the Cobden Centre’s trustees, has been elected to the House of Commons’ Treasury Select Committee. The Treasury Committee is…
Whatever happened to the rate of interest?
byAccording to the French historian Fernand Braudel, to understand the present we should master the whole of world history. The same may be said…