Lessons from the financial crisis: a libertarian perspective
byThis article is an expanded version of the Second Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Dowd at the National Liberal Club, London,…
Insight
Can Government Create Wealth?
byIn this article, I argued that a useful measure of GDP needs to extract the government sector, as all it represents is a movement…
Strip out the government and Japanese GDP is going backwards
byOur good friend of the Cobden Centre, Sean Corrigan, is a wealth of fresh economic insight. Here in this small piece, he shows us that,…
Tony Deden on Capital Preservation
byBy kind permission, Tony Deden on capital preservation and the present economy: Despite of what the program says, I do not see myself as an…
Derivatives and Regulatory Failure – Precipice Bonds
byFinancial engineer Gordon Kerr presents the prequel to his article How to destroy the British Banking System – Regulatory Arbitrage via “Pig on Pork”…
Sean Corrigan’s Insight
byWe are honoured to republish articles by Sean Corrigan. Sean is an economist of the Austrian School Liberal Tradition and Chief Investment Strategist at…
How to avoid future encounters with financial meltdown
byCobden Centre Advisory Board member and Chief Executive of Tyler Capital, James Tyler, sets out the case for 100% reserve banking. Background In October…
The Errors of Posen, New MPC Recruit
byNorma Cohen in the Financial Times of 26 October 2009 wrote: Britain’s economy cannot recover unless its damaged banking system is restructured, the newest…
Entrepreneurship and the business cycle
byVia the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, our Chairman, Toby Baxendale, and our Founding Fellow, Dr Anthony J. Evans further the monetary theory of…
Hands off our banks! Neelie Kroes decrees that Britain must split and sell rescued banks now!
byChris Neal outlines his tax payers’ revolt. In October 2008 Messrs Brown and Darling assured the British tax payer that we had a reasonable…