Policy Exchange and the Near Consensus on the Merits of QE
byI went to this event today. “22/02/2010 – Ideas Space Quantitative Easing: Friend or Future Foe? The Bank of England entered unchartered territory in…
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The Luvvie Tax
byI see the panel of economic experts that is the acting industry have latched onto the Tobin tax, now re-branded the ‘Robin Hood Tax’. …
Darius Guppy is spot on about the bank credit creation process
byVia Darius Guppy: our world balances on a sea of debt What is needed is a root and branch re-evaluation of that most curious…
Boris: The Greeks must be rueing the day they whacked the drachma
byBJ’s excellent article today rightly draws comparison between the bailout of Greece and the bailout of Northern Rock. He makes the excellent point that…
Alchemists of Loss, Prof. Kevin Dowd
byWe are delighted to announce a forthcoming book by Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Professor Kevin Dowd and US-based journalist and former investment banker Martin…
Philipp Bagus on the business cycle
byECONOMISTS IN THE TRADITION OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL have shown that one type of maturity mismatching can cause maladjustments and business cycles. When banks…
TCC’s Jamie Whyte Speaks at Oxford
byMy good friend Nick Cowen has just emailed me the video link to an excellent talk given recently at Oxford by TCC Advisory Board…
FT.com – Traders make $8bn bet against euro
byThe Financial Times has an item up about the weight of investor pressure to sell the euro, taking the view, no doubt, that the…
A day of reckoning: how to end the banking crisis now
byDrawing on the work of Nobel Laureates in economics from three traditions, plus numerous other distinguished scholars, Cobden Centre Chairman, economist and successful entrepreneur…
Moneyweek: Japan leads the way… through a minefield
byOver at Moneyweek, Bill Bonner argues in a subscriber-only article that ersatz money is a flop. Bonner describes John Law‘s disastrous paper money scheme…