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byVia Reclogging the US credit system, Caitlin Long warns us that there is another impending credit fuelled bubble that is due to be created…
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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…
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash | McClatchy
byWASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages,…
Antitrust al Dente for Google in Europe – WSJ.com
byInstitut économique Molinari appears in the Wall Street Journal. IEM is run by Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Dr. Cécile Philippe. An antitrust backlash is…
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…
Material Evidence – bonds and new money
bySean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: bond yields, new money, state borrowing and the difficulty of making sound business decisions in the present environment. Read the…
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…