FT.com – Dubai reveals the fragility of finance
byVia FT.com / Comment / Editorial – Dubai reveals the fragility of finance: Such nervousness is the result of continuing financial fragility. The economic…
Lending
The ESCP Europe/Cobden Centre Colloquium on Sound Money
byThrough tomorrow and Saturday, ESCP Europe and The Cobden Centre are hosting a Colloquium on Sound Money. The Colloquium is to be directed by…
FT.com / Markets / Insight – Insight: Reclogging the US credit system
byVia Reclogging the US credit system, Caitlin Long warns us that there is another impending credit fuelled bubble that is due to be created…
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…
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…
Gordon Brown, the Destroyer of our Economy
byThe Cobden Centre’s Chairman, Toby Baxendale, explores Gordon Brown’s total responsibility for the meltdown of the UK economy. It is said that the USA…
Moral Markets and Honest Money
byRevised and updated: reconciling our conflicting views of the market through consistent principle and morality. This post originally appeared on www.stevebaker.info. A Christian friend…
Lord Timon’s Purse
byIn Lord Timon’s Purse, Sean Corrigan explores the causes of the forty US banking failures of 2009 and sets out some of the basics…
Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online
byResponding to an article in The Times, Steven Baker indicates the origins of our views on the economic situation and its causes, of our…
Strip the Bank of England of its power | Jamie Whyte – Times Online
byWriting in The Times on 2 July 2009, Jamie Whyte called for the Bank of England to be stripped of its power to set…