Mr. Cobden on banking
byBankers’ Magazine Vol I April-October 1844 – H/T Sean Corrigan The author of an interesting work published a short time since, entitled “Sir Robert…
Gold
Howard Marks: All That Glitters
byOn this cold and snowy English Sunday, with many Cobden Centre readers tucked up for Christmas with possibly only one last difficult food shopping…
Alan Greenspan: Gold and Economic Freedom
byBefore Alan Greenspan stood down from his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul got him to sign a copy of Greenspan’s 1966 essay,…
Gold: An objective look at subjective value
byEdited remarks from a speech given by Tony Deden at the annual meeting of the Spanish Precious Metals Association (AEMP) in Madrid on 25…
Gold Bugs: Swivel-eyed, Mad-eyed, Lunatic Fringe?
byMany of the authors and Cobden Centre advisory board members (including some distinguished academics) would like to see money eventually re-rooted back into some…
Rockwell: The Gold Standard Never Dies
byA great article by Lew Rockwell: John Maynard Keynes thought he had pretty well killed gold as a monetary standard back in the 1930s….
Ebeling: A Return to the Gold Standard?
byA good article by Richard M. Ebeling: As Martin Wolf correctly observed, historically a primary advantage of a gold standard was that it removed…
Bernanke spurned: Gold hits $1400 dollars
byThe gold price will go down again, especially once the central bank cartel hits the between-markets dead zones, but gold hit $1400 dollars today…
Could the world go back to the gold standard?
byMartin Wolf asks “Could the world go back to the gold standard?” During any period of monetary disorder — the 1970s, for example, or…
The Financial Sense Newshour: Golden Opportunities
byFor those who enjoy listening to Wall Street Unspun, King World News, the Lew Rockwell Show, and Mises Media, another excellent programme within a…