George Monbiot remains clueless when it comes to his perceived free market enemies
byI read this yesterday and almost fell off my chair laughing. As ever, George Monbiot remains totally clueless about the ideas, motivations and complexities…
Ethics
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…
The curious case of The Spirit Level
byOne of our good supporters has sent us in an article to publish by Christopher Snowdon, who with the support of the courageous campaigners…
The Big Society, Cameron, Nichols, Hayek and the Last Pope
byWe are told in this weekend’s Sunday Telegraph that: Listening to David Cameron’s first speech on the steps of Downing Street, Archbishop Vincent Nichols…
Cui bono? A dissent upon Mr Grantham
byWe’ll keep the Green Flag Flying In a recent polemic, the well-regarded investment manager and part-time climate activist, Jeremy Grantham, set out his version…
Bastiat – The State
byIn the course of things, I had cause to quote Bastiat: “The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at…
Catholic Social Conscience Talk, Philip Booth
byMarch 19th 2010, Blackfriars, Oxford University. When I first started dipping my toe into writing and researching Catholic social teaching, I did not see…
Inflationism
byThis post is taken from Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1934), chapter 13 Monetary Policy (PDF, HTML), covering inflationism. Follow this link…
‘Heroes’ helped to help themselves!
byI have just listened to the Budget Debate and quite frankly am growing more and more tired of the political point scoring arena that…
The tab from LEH/AIG so far?
byVia Sean Corrigan and Toby Baxendale, “The tab from LEH/AIG so far? Around about $2 trillion if we look at trend US federal debt…