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…
Economics
Steve Baker speaks at the IEA on fiscal policy
byOn Tuesday, I spoke at the IEA’s The State of the Economy conference, participating in a panel discussion on Fiscal Policy and Government Expenditure…
Buchanan: The Constitutionalization of Money
byJames M. Buchanan (Nobel Laureate, economics, 1986) on reform of the monetary regime through constitutional 100% reserves: The market will not work effectively with…
Corrigan on inflation, unemployment and the stimulus
byOn inflation, unemployment, especially desperate youth unemployment, and the stimulus. Consider, in the lows of the first years of the century, there were 2.8…
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…
Economists: UK economy cries out for credible rescue plan
byVia an open letter in The Times: IT IS now clear that the UK economy entered the recession with a large structural budget deficit. As…
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…
Eamonn Butler: The Alternative Manifesto
byEamonn Butler publishes another great book: The Alternative Manifesto: A 12-Step Programme to Remake Britain. I really admire Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute…