Carswell and Baker on bank reform
byYesterday, Douglas Carswell and I spoke in the Chamber during the backbench banking debate. From Douglas’ speech: Banking is undoubtedly corporatist. To put it…
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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…
Evidence to Independent Commission on Banking
byEvidence submitted to the Independent Commission on Banking, September 26, 2010 The Terms of Reference from HM Treasury to the Independent Commission on Banking…
Bloomberg: Fed May Hesitate on More Easing After Critics Question Mandate
byFed May Hesitate on More Easing After Critics Question Mandate It was with a certain wry amusement that I read on Bloomberg about how…
Honest Money at the Libertarian Alliance Conference 2010
byYesterday, I gave a talk at the Libertarian Alliance Conference 2010 entitled Honest Money and the Future of Banking. Please click the image below…
CentreRight: Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform
byOn CentreRight, I explain that Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform: There is a doctrine which creates wealth and spreads it around. It…
How to create $1.25 TRILLION in 15 months and spend it all
byhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/08/26/129451895/how-to-spend-1-25-trillion Cranky money policy or real economics? Is this the start of the decline of the American Imperial Empire we are observing?
Honest Money through bearer shares, a proposal
byBy kind permission of Paul Birch, we reproduce his essay setting out a proposal for honest money through bearer shares, previously published on this…
Cobden Centre Annual Lecture 2010 – honest money and the national debt
byLast night, yours truly, along with a number of other Cobden Centre supporters and assorted free marketeers, listened to Toby Baxendale talk about a…
An honest money maiden speech
byAdvisory Board Member Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe, yesterday made his maiden speech in the House of Commons. The full text may be found…