Is Inflationism Part of our Mindset? The Paper Pound & The Bullion Report
byMost people have one principle “asset”: the house they live in. Long gone are the days when your physical house was simply your home…
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The violation of Mr Smith
byForty years ago today, Britain moved to decimal currency. A 1971 penny was worth the equivalent of today’s 10p. In recognition of this dramatic…
Huerta de Soto introduces Bagus’ book, The Tragedy of the Euro
byThe following is Jesús Huerta de Soto’s foreword to The Tragedy of the Euro by Philipp Bagus, a friend of The Cobden Centre. You can…
Carswell and Baker on bank reform
byYesterday, Douglas Carswell and I spoke in the Chamber during the backbench banking debate. From Douglas’ speech: Banking is undoubtedly corporatist. To put it…
1989: Competing Currencies Proposed for Europe by the UK Treasury
byVia Note from Her Majesty’s Treasury on EMU (Novembre 1989): The European Council agreed at its meeting in Madrid in June to launch the first…
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself – Telegraph
byThe escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. via…
The Positive Money Conference
byThis post originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Today, Cobden Centre comrades and I are off to inject some Austrianism into the Positive Money conference. As you…
The Staggering Economic Errors Behind The Policy of Quantitative Easing
byIn September of last year, I placed this article up on our web site detailing the theoretical errors behind the policy of quantitative easing….
Honest Money through bearer shares, a proposal
byBy kind permission of Paul Birch, we reproduce his essay setting out a proposal for honest money through bearer shares, previously published on this…
An honest money maiden speech
byAdvisory Board Member Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe, yesterday made his maiden speech in the House of Commons. The full text may be found…