HM Treasury’s Press Release on Reforms to Financial Regulation
byA reader has sent in his thoughts about the recent proposals to reform the regulatory apparatus of the UK banking system: Last Friday I had…
How to create $1.25 TRILLION in 15 months and spend it all
byhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/08/26/129451895/how-to-spend-1-25-trillion Cranky money policy or real economics? Is this the start of the decline of the American Imperial Empire we are observing?
The infantilisation of financial services
byVia Bank plans to cap risky mortgages – Telegraph: Mortgage lending would be “capped” to stop borrowers taking out risky loans under radical Bank of…
Robert Murphy: What is Austrian Economics?
byThe Mises Institute is doing some great work in building up a comprehensive online university curriculum covering every aspect of Austrian economics. In this…
Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment
by”The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion,” wrote the former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson in his memoirs….
Harriet Harman’s Revenge
byYesterday I discovered a brilliant article by Graham Stewart about the legal challenges to the Coalition budget launched by the Fawcett Society: successive anti-discriminatory…
John Williams: Day of reckoning ready to re-emerge from the shadows
byJohn Williams is the founder of the Shadow Government Statistics Newsletter found at Shadowstats.com, the excellent web site which uses old US government methods…
Peter Schiff: Stimulus is Sedation
byIn the first of two new videos, Peter Schiff discusses Bill Gross, of PIMCO, and his proposed complete nationalisation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
John Bright: The “Angel of Death has Been Abroad” Speech – A Poetic Anti-War Masterpiece
byJohn Bright and Richard Cobden are forever associated because they were both industrial capitalists, Corn Law Reform free traders, Anti War campaigners, and founders…
Material Evidence: The Sovietization of the USA
byThe latest Material Evidence from Sean Corrigan: The Home of the Free and the Land of the Brave? Wrong on both counts, if we…