Entrepreneurship and the business cycle
Via the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, our Chairman, Toby Baxendale, and our Founding Fellow, Dr Anthony J. Evans further the monetary theory of…
Antitrust al Dente for Google in Europe – WSJ.com
Institut économique Molinari appears in the Wall Street Journal. IEM is run by Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Dr. Cécile Philippe. An antitrust backlash is…
Lloyds seeks £23bn to exit state scheme – Times Online
Lloyds will announce within days a controversial £23 billion fundraising that will bolster its balance sheet and finally repair the damage caused by its…
FT.com / Martin Wolf – Why curbing finance is hard to do
Writing in The Financial Times, Martin Wolf explains “Why curbing finance is hard to do”, discussing the separation of “utility” and “casino” banking and…
Economists revolt over surprise recession data – Times Online
Via The Times Online, we learn that many economists “revolt over surprise recession data”: Economists today cast doubt on official data showing that British gross domestic…
Salamanca — day 2
Toby Baxendale and Steve Baker enjoyed a second fascinating day at the joint Ludwig von Mises Institute and Instituto Juan de Mariana conference in Salamanca,…
The Birthplace of Economic Theory: A Trip to Salamanca, Spain
Cobden Centre Chairman, Toby Baxendale, and Corporate Affairs Director, Steve Baker, are this week in Salamanca, Spain for the joint Ludwig von Mises Institute and Instituto…
Make Britain safer – pull our troops out of Afghanistan – Telegraph
Via Make Britain safer – pull our troops out of Afghanistan – Telegraph, Jeff Randall argues that we should pull out of Afghanistan: Decent people…
The perils of cheap money – Telegraph Blogs
Via The perils of cheap money – Telegraph Blogs, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard explains another danger of low interest rates: Here’s a little nugget from Germany….
Projections Past and Future: Economic Imagination and the Financial Crisis 2007 – 2012
Via Mercatus Center at George Mason University – Projections Past and Future: Economic Imagination and the Financial Crisis 2007 – 2012, a new working paper…