How Central Banks Created a $250 Trillion Global Debt Bubble
byWe created this animation a couple of years ago which we have used in various settings. Feel free to forward around as a brief…
Media
Central Bankers Are All ‘Corbynistas’ Now
byPublished in the Wall Street Journal yesterday from John Phelan, “Central Bankers Are All ‘Corbynistas’ Now”: Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/central-bankers-are-all-corbynistas-now-1470858620 When Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy…
Government price fixing has a 100% failure rate – this includes central banks
byThe following, by Max Rangeley and Steve Baker MP, was published by Moneyweek’s Fleet Street Newsletter http://www.fleetstreetletter.co.uk/. Over the previous half century, economic central…
Your do-it-yourself front page financial Armageddon story
by“The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality…
Interview with Martin Wolf on Monetary Reform, Part 2
byMartin Wolf wrote an excellent article earlier this year on monetary reform, which can be found here . Martin’s new book, “The Shifts and the…
Interview with Martin Wolf on Monetary Reform, Part 1
byMartin Wolf wrote an excellent article earlier this year on monetary reform, which can be found here . Martin’s new book, “The Shifts and the…
Interview with St. Louis Fed Vice President on Bitcoin
byDr David Andolfatto, who is Vice President of the St. Louis Fed, has been one of the most forward-looking people at central banks around…
Matt Ridley on the values of Richard Cobden
byMatt Ridley, in The Times [paywall restricted], considers the political relevance of the values of 19th century Liberals, including Richard Cobden. Surely wanting government…
Statman’s tour of Britain: are average wages falling?
byIncoming from Tom Paterson, chief economist at “Gold Made Simple”: I’m currently travelling around Europe in my VW campervan with my my wife and…
Straight talk
byThe Cobden Centre has no position on any proposed takeover by one pharmaceutical firm of another. On the plus side, the move by Pfizer…