Europe continues to flounder
byAs another week goes by, Europe continues to flounder – even German car sales were off by 17% YOY, a decline which was presumably not all…
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The rise of the money cranks
byIt’s official: global economic policy is now firmly in the hands of money cranks. The lesson from the events of 2007-2008 should have been…
What’s behind Estonia’s success story?
byAgainst the background of a severe economic crisis in the Euro-zone one is surprised to find a member of the Euro area that is…
Kohlruebenwinter for Coventry, Cologne, Caritiba & Canton
byLast week it was announced that Beijing was reversing an earlier decision to allow local governments to issue their own bonds, causing eyebrows to…
China and Europe: 100 years of folly
byOne can read The Daily Mail for its coverage of the royal family, snapshots of British life, or, if you are like me, the…
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…
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…
Labour laws should be abolished
byIn 2006, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Department of Trade and Industry has misinterpreted clauses 3 and 5 of the Working…