A brief guide to money and banking
byToday, we publish our brief guide to money and banking. The Guide comprises: Four charts showing how Baxendale and Evans’ measure of the money…
Essentials
How To Destroy the British Banking System –- Regulatory Arbitrage via ‘Pig on Pork’ Derivatives.
byFinancial engineer Gordon Kerr explains how to destroy the British banking system through the use of derivatives which take advantage of the regulatory system,…
Irving Fisher, 100% Money, 1935
byIrving Fisher’s “100% Money” is remarkable in the context of our present credit crunch. While The Cobden Centre pursues copyright permission to scan and…
Corrigan on central banking
bySean Corrigan digs up an anti-trust speech by Congressman Charles Lindbergh Senior, father of the famous aviator, who fires a broadside against the founders…
How to deal with the Banksters
byJames Tyler explains how to fix banking. This article originally appeared on hedgehedge.com. Open your wallet. Take out that £10 note. It’s yours. Your…
What is wrong with banking, part 1: the legal nature of banking contracts
byThis article gives a summary of the legal nature of banking contracts as presented by Jesús Huerta de Soto in Money, Bank Credit and…
The Micropolitics of Free Market Money: a Proposal
byThis paper originally appeared as Economic Notes No. 39, published by the Libertarian Alliance in 1992. The Paper is available in full here. This…
Lessons from the financial crisis: a libertarian perspective
byThis article is an expanded version of the Second Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Dowd at the National Liberal Club, London,…
How to avoid future encounters with financial meltdown
byCobden Centre Advisory Board member and Chief Executive of Tyler Capital, James Tyler, sets out the case for 100% reserve banking. Background In October…
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…