Atlas Shrugged: Is Hollywood about to destroy a classic?
byA new film is to be released on the 15th of April: Atlas Shrugged Part 1: The book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand details…
Economics
The Crime Known as Quantitative Easing
byRecent economic data has convinced the Bank of England not to expand its Quantitative Easing program. According to the Office of National Statistics, annual…
News from Korea: Bank run fears engulf savings bank industry
byWith a hat tip to Sean Corrigan, via the Korea JoongAng Daily, we learn that their savings industry has been engulfed by a panic:…
The violation of Mr Smith
byForty years ago today, Britain moved to decimal currency. A 1971 penny was worth the equivalent of today’s 10p. In recognition of this dramatic…
Huerta de Soto introduces Bagus’ book, The Tragedy of the Euro
byThe following is Jesús Huerta de Soto’s foreword to The Tragedy of the Euro by Philipp Bagus, a friend of The Cobden Centre. You can…
Are German Dilemmas Causing European Problems?
byThe European monetary union is being held together tenuously. After putting €110bn. on the line to save Greece earlier this year, the tab increased…
ConservativeHome, Steve Baker MP: The greatest threat to civilisation is not climate change but bad economics
byOver at ConservativeHome, I have set out the case that The greatest threat to civilisation is not climate change but bad economics: Unfortunately, an…
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself – Telegraph
byThe escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. via…
The Positive Money Conference
byThis post originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Today, Cobden Centre comrades and I are off to inject some Austrianism into the Positive Money conference. As you…
Tonight: Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story
byBritain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story will be transmitted on Channel 4, tonight Thursday, 11 Nov at 9pm: Film maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent…