What would you have done?
byOn December 18, 2011, Vaclav Havel the longtime Czech dissident passed away. Havel ’s role in the Velvet Revolution – the uprising of Czechs…
Politics
Via Bloomberg: Kerr says euro woes may prompt return of gold standard
byFollowing his recent paper The law of opposites: Illusory profits in the financial sector, TCC Advisory Board member and founder of Cobden Partners Gordon Kerr appeared…
If this is capitalism, I am not a capitalist
byThis post originally appeared on www.stevebaker.info. I spoke last night in the general debate on the economy, saying*: As I rise to speak I…
The Magicians at the Bank of England (with close support from No 10 & 11 Downing Street)
byWho made this very sound statement two years ago in relation to QE I? The last resort of desperate governments when all other policies…
ConservativeHome: It’s time for currency choice – and Douglas Carswell’s 10 minute rule Bill on currency reform
byOver at ConservativeHome, I have promoted Douglas Carswell’s ten minute rule Bill on legal tender laws and currency choice: People today have unprecedented choice. They…
The letters of Richard Cobden
byWe are pleased to announce a special discount for Cobden Centre readers on The Letters of Richard Cobden from Oxford University Press: In four…
A fascinating Austrian encounter with China’s top think-tank
byA couple of weeks ago in the offices of the Adam Smith Institute, I addressed more than twenty of China’s most senior economic thinkers…
Welfare and the case for honest money
byI do not doubt that the Government is sincere in its wish to make Britain “open for business” and to deliver greater life chances…
The Catholic church in the UK has come a long way from Salamanca
byIn October 2009, Toby and I attended the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Supporters Summit in Salamanca, the birthplace of economic theory: One of the…
Corruption, Taxation and Enjoying Some Free Time
byOne of the most important questions about politics we must ask ourselves is: How should we live in a state we don’t approve of?…