Io, Saturnalia!
byAh, Brexit! What is there left to say that not already been said, most of it either out of folly or falsehood? As regards the…
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Sound money for Europe
byYou can be sure that most of my colleagues in the European Parliament do not embrace the concept of the free market. Day after…
Gerard Casey: ‘No property is safe in the EU’
byI spoke recently to the splendid Professor Gerard Casey about his philosophical notions of property, before moving this on to talk about money (as…
Cyclical déjà vu
byThough it might seem a churlish observation to make amid so much barely-suppressed exuberance about the prospect for the markets in 2013, in many…
Does trade promote peace?
byIn this video treatise Professor Pavel Yakovlev from Learn Liberty expounds the benefits of the ‘Capitalist Peace Theory’ arguing that free trade leads to…
Eurozone government defaults looking certain
byFor some time I have taken the view that rescuing eurozone governments from their financial crises was too big a job for the European…
Cameron chose well
byThe markets are telling us that there is a painful abscess in Europe, with the Euro at its core. We believe it is driving…
The end of the EU
byLast Friday, David Cameron came back from Brussels having rejected proposals to draft a new European Union treaty, having failed to get promises of…
Hanging London out to dry: The impact of an EU Financial Transaction Tax
byThis article was co-authored with Adam Baldwin and previously published at adamsmith.org. Our new report, released today, assesses the impact of a Financial Transaction…
1989: Competing Currencies Proposed for Europe by the UK Treasury
byVia Note from Her Majesty’s Treasury on EMU (Novembre 1989): The European Council agreed at its meeting in Madrid in June to launch the first…