The Superhighway to Serfdom
byBy kind permission of Sean Corrigan, we make available the September edition of his Resource Ruminations “Superhighway to Serfdom”: “The danger of modern liberty…
Central Banking
Can the Manipulation of Interest Rates Create Wealth?
byThe Cobden Centre’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, explores whether cheaper money will make for greater prosperity. You often hear politicians and economic commentators say that…
Don’t regulate banking – liberalise it
byWriting in the Guardian, Dr Anthony J Evans calls for liberalisation of banking. Barack Obama’s speech on Monday to Wall Street outlines an overhaul…
Moral Markets and Honest Money
byRevised and updated: reconciling our conflicting views of the market through consistent principle and morality. This post originally appeared on www.stevebaker.info. A Christian friend…
‘Footsie pushes above 5,000’ but it will not last
byUpdate: As the Footsie pushes above 5,000, we bring this post forwards and refer readers to Why is the FTSE going up? Hopes for a…
Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online
byResponding to an article in The Times, Steven Baker indicates the origins of our views on the economic situation and its causes, of our…
Baxendale and Evans make the SSRN top ten
byOn 26 August 2009, Baxendale and Evans’ paper Assessing UK Money Supply Measures in Light of the Credit Crunch made the top ten papers of…
Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That
byBy kind permission of Sean Corrigan, we reproduce his report Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That, in which he explains the end of…
Strip the Bank of England of its power | Jamie Whyte – Times Online
byWriting in The Times on 2 July 2009, Jamie Whyte called for the Bank of England to be stripped of its power to set…
Bailing out the Banks – Glaring Evidence of Moral Hazard
byGordon Kerr, a banker with expertise in derivatives and foreign exchange, explores the evidence of moral hazard in the bank bail outs. By rescuing…