Money is not working.
byA speech to the Policy Exchange on 31st March 2009 by Cobden Centre sponsor James Tyler. This article first appeared on hedgehedge.com but it…
Capital
CentreRight: On economic forecasting and double-dip recession
byOver at CentreRight, I have set out briefly the mistake presently being made by policymakers in the US, which I expect to be mirrored in…
Some people doodle pictures
bySome people doodle pictures, but I’m the type who mucks around random bits of historical price data just to see where it goes. For…
The kindness of geniuses
byI once saw an advertisement for a book that would apparently reveal the secret of making a profit in the foreign exchange markets. I…
Bastiat’s Iceberg: A Sean Corrigan Masterpiece for Christmas
bySean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities Management packs more sound applied economics into this report than ever: Toby Baxendale provides a commentary. This is a…
Can Government Create Wealth?
byIn this article, I argued that a useful measure of GDP needs to extract the government sector, as all it represents is a movement…
Tony Deden on Capital Preservation
byBy kind permission, Tony Deden on capital preservation and the present economy: Despite of what the program says, I do not see myself as an…
The Government’s asset fire sale
byGordon Kerr explains the futility of the Government’s planned asset fire sale. The Government plans “a fire sale of assets worth £16 billion” to…
Why Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
byToby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
The Sub-Prime Debacle – What Will Future Historians Say?
byLiam Halligan has kindly agreed to publication of the transcript of his address to the Cobden Centre/Libertarian Alliance dinner on 30 September 2009. INTRODUCTION…