Horwitz: To the Opponents of Fractional Reserve Banking
Steven Horwitz writes In some free-market circles fractional reserve banking (FRB) is blamed for everything from business cycles to bad breath. Defenders are seen…
Niall Ferguson on Keynesianism
Steve Baker’s researcher, Tim Hewish, found an interesting CNN interview with Niall Ferguson on the US approach to the economic crisis: … the way…
Art Cashin On The Coming Hyperinflation
Zero Hedge has published a vivid account of hyperinflation by Art Cashin: in 1922, the German Central Bank and the German Treasury took an…
Criticising farmers for the CAP
Steve Baker’s latest article for Centre Right is one of his best: I listened to Comrade Milliband’s tedious historical revisionism with interest: apparently New…
Cable’s anger is misdirected
Vince Cable’s recent attack on capitalism has predictably and deservedly generated a lot of comment. His remarks might have gone unreported in previous years,…
Halligan: The real lesson we can learn from Japan’s dramatic currency sell-off
Liam Halligan’s latest article for The Telegraph considers the role of political manoeuvres and industrial lobbying in Japanese economic policy: when the victorious Kan…
Who will protect us from the central bank?
Earlier this week, John Redwood MP posed some difficult questions for Mervyn King: Why did the Bank so misread the cycle 2005-9? Why did…
First reading of Carswell’s Financial Services Bill
Douglas Carswell MP yesterday delivered a superb speech in support of his eagerly anticipated Financial Services (Regulation of Deposits and Lending) Bill, introduced as…
A Bill to Fight Crony Capitalism
Steve Baker MP has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “A Bill to Fight Crony Capitalism”: If you borrow a friend’s painting…
What the Big Society should mean
In his latest article for CentreRight, Steve Baker explains his vision of the Big Society: The change we need is a change within. From…