Happy days are here again? Another view from the City
byEquity Strategist Ewen Stewart makes the case that the national debt will within 5 years be over £150,000 per family of 4 with debt…
Insight
Britain’s Business Community – Your Country Needs You!
byChris Neal explains how the reports of the Centre for Social Justice and Conservative Party policy are converging in a direction which tends towards…
Why Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
byToby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
The Sub-Prime Debacle – What Will Future Historians Say?
byLiam Halligan has kindly agreed to publication of the transcript of his address to the Cobden Centre/Libertarian Alliance dinner on 30 September 2009. INTRODUCTION…
Material Evidence – Recovery or crisis?
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: the declaration of the end of the recession vs cries of crisis, the role of business spending, new money, the…
Material Evidence – Back to the 70s
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: US unemployment, the UK’s staggering recovery to 1974 levels of manufacturing output, energy investment and the performance of gold and…
Is a Liquidity Trap Possible? Beware of those who do not understand the Structure of Production.
byThe essential idea of a Liquidity Trap as expounded by J M Keynes in this “General Theory” is that there is a point in…
Animal Farm
bySept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Private investors in China, the world’s largest metals user, have stockpiled “substantial” quantities of copper as the government ramps up…
The Superhighway to Serfdom
byBy kind permission of Sean Corrigan, we make available the September edition of his Resource Ruminations “Superhighway to Serfdom”: “The danger of modern liberty…
Can the Manipulation of Interest Rates Create Wealth?
byThe Cobden Centre’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, explores whether cheaper money will make for greater prosperity. You often hear politicians and economic commentators say that…