The Emperor’s New Clothes: How to Pay off the National Debt & Give a 28.5% Tax Cut
byI offer a £1,000 reward for anyone who can tell me why this logically won’t work, practical politics, for now, being another matter. What…
Insight
Bastiat – The State
byIn the course of things, I had cause to quote Bastiat: “The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at…
Cameron’s choice: 1945, 1931, 1815, or something new
byI recently discovered a very good article at prudentbear.com, published shortly before the general election. Martin Hutchinson considers “the three previous occasions on which…
Peter Boettke wins Adam Smith Award
byI am delighted to announce that Cobden Centre Advisory Board member Prof. Peter Boettke has been honoured with the prestigious Adam Smith Award. We…
Britain at the Crossroads
byWhile waiting for the politicians in the Westminster Village to decide who the next UK Prime Minister should be, readers of the Cobden Centre…
Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money
byYou know you have crossed into the Austrian light when you wake up one morning and everything has become clear. From that point forward,…
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
byThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers — this is the title of a great book by Paul Kennedy that I read as…
Arden Partners — Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
byThe brilliant economist Ewen Stewart of Arden Partners sadly shows we are going the way of Greece, not Ireland: We call the UK the…
The Mystery of Banking
byIf What Has The Government Done To Our Money? is an hors d’oeuvre, then The Mystery of Banking is the main appetiser in our…
Material Evidence: UK Fiscal Folly
byCorrigan once again treats us to his analysis of the debt levels facing us here in the UK, how desperate it is, and what…