Why all Banks are Insolvent
byWhy Even the Best Banks are Insolvent and Inherently Dishonest We are told that Barclays is a good bank and it did well not…
Insight
More on Banking and the Barclays 2009 Results
bySome of my City friends who work in banking have had a look at the 2009 Barclays balance sheet and made comment on how…
The Crack-up Boom
byThis post is excerpted from Mises’ “The Causes of the Economic Crisis and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression” which is available…
The Ethics of Capitalism: A Secular and a Theological Justification
byThe current debate about bankers’ bonuses is often seen as one of fairness pitted against the greed of those nasty capitalists,. To me, bankers…
Some people doodle pictures
bySome people doodle pictures, but I’m the type who mucks around random bits of historical price data just to see where it goes. For…
Why I Founded the Cobden Centre
byI founded the Cobden Centre inspired by the writing of F A Hayek, particularly his reference in “Denationalization of Money: the Argument Refined” (IEA,…
Presbyterian Mutual Society and a Solution to Pay out all its Creditors and its Place in the Honest Money Movement
byA bank , building society that uses factional reserves, lends long and pays out short is only going to exist should confidence be kept…
Banksters on the Welfare State of Credit
byOur Corporate Affairs Director Steve Baker has posed this question to some of his fellow board members, “Would be great to nail this phenomenon…
Buchanan: The Constitutionalization of Money
byJames M. Buchanan (Nobel Laureate, economics, 1986) on reform of the monetary regime through constitutional 100% reserves: The market will not work effectively with…
The Luvvie Tax
byI see the panel of economic experts that is the acting industry have latched onto the Tobin tax, now re-branded the ‘Robin Hood Tax’. …