The Four of Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Frank Field MP
byVia The Four of Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Frank Field MP: For some time now it has been possible to see the four…
monetary policy
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…
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…
FT.com warns us of the impending commercial property bubble and its potential bursting!
byhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4e12218-ced4-11de-8a4b-00144feabdc0.html Caitlin Long warns us that there is another impending credit fuelled bubble that is due to be created to accommodate the commercial property…
The perils of cheap money – Telegraph Blogs
byVia The perils of cheap money – Telegraph Blogs, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard explains another danger of low interest rates: Here’s a little nugget from Germany….
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…
FT.com / Martin Wolf – Why narrow banking alone is not the finance solution
byFT columnist Martin Wolf considers narrow banking and 100% reserves. The FT has a new series on the future of investment. But what, I…
Don’t regulate banking – liberalise it
byWriting in the Guardian, Dr Anthony J Evans calls for liberalisation of banking. Barack Obama’s speech on Monday to Wall Street outlines an overhaul…