Did Hayek and Robbins Deepen the Great Depression?
I always love sitting on the beach in the Caribbean post Christmas, catching up with my neglected reading and getting lots of strange stares…
Bagehot’s obituary of Richard Cobden – 1865
Walter Bagehot’s 1865 obituary of Richard Cobden, from the Online Library of Liberty (H/T Sean Corrigan). Twenty-three years ago—and it is very strange that…
Financial regulation goes global
Dalibor Roháč of the Legatum Institute and Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers’ Alliance have jointly authored a report on the risks of new global…
Mr. Cobden on banking
Bankers’ Magazine Vol I April-October 1844 – H/T Sean Corrigan The author of an interesting work published a short time since, entitled “Sir Robert…
Quote of the week: Henry Ford on FRB
When asked to bail out his son’s bank, Henry Ford, now in his seventies and increasingly autocratic and unreasonable, refused to bail out his…
Gold: An objective look at subjective value
Edited remarks from a speech given by Tony Deden at the annual meeting of the Spanish Precious Metals Association (AEMP) in Madrid on 25…
200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
Two academics, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, recently wrote a best seller, The Spirit Level, which purported to show how having a much more…
Hayek-doubters re Denationalisation of Money: Eat Your Heart Out!
A great article from Harvard Business Review: Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. The bankers, fed up with regulation,…
Gold Bugs: Swivel-eyed, Mad-eyed, Lunatic Fringe?
Many of the authors and Cobden Centre advisory board members (including some distinguished academics) would like to see money eventually re-rooted back into some…
Rockwell: The Gold Standard Never Dies
A great article by Lew Rockwell: John Maynard Keynes thought he had pretty well killed gold as a monetary standard back in the 1930s….