The importance of traders and the evils of bankers
byAnother classic article from James Tyler, brought forward Trader: One whose business is trade or commerce. Trade and commerce is the lifeblood of wealth…
Insight
The violation of Mr Smith
byForty years ago today, Britain moved to decimal currency. A 1971 penny was worth the equivalent of today’s 10p. In recognition of this dramatic…
A campaign for one day of peace
byThe Cobden Centre exists to promote social progress through honest money, free trade and peace. As you can see from those links, we have touched…
Ben Davies: Gold, Defaults & A New Brady Bunch
byBen Davies, of Hinde Capital, discusses his latest 22-page report with Eric King, in the cogent and persuasive 18-minute interview below. Davies discusses how…
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…
John Williams: The US is heading for hyperinflation
byIf you haven’t subscribed yet, one of the best podcasted programmes out there in ‘Austro-World’, is the Financial Sense Newshour, with Jim Puplava. With…
Peter Schiff: Commodities, dollar, interest rates, chinese inflation, U.S. deficits
byThe Austrian money manager, Mr Peter Schiff is back with another one of his Schiff reports. In this YouTube he tries to seek out…
Philipp Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
byPhilipp Bagus is an associate professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid and a visiting professor at Prague University. He has just written a…
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,…
John Hathaway: Gold is now a legitimate topic of conversation for the pension funds
byJohn Hathaway, of the Toqueville Funds, was recently interviewed by Eric King. They spoke about the failure of the EU to get the toothpaste…