Should a Bank in Difficulties Receive Assistance?
byThis was the question put to me by Treasury Committee Chairman Andrew Tyrie MP when I appeared before the Committee on January 6th to…
Regulation
Models, Damn Models and Statistics, or Math Gone Mad
byParliamentary committees are not especially noted for entertainment, but the November Treasury Select Committee hearing on the Bank of England’s Inflation Report is a…
Segregated Cash Accounts
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by John Cochrane, first appeared here http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.ie/2014/11/segregated-cash-accounts.html] An important little item from the just released minutes of the October Federal…
Should governments impose stricter regulations on large firms?
byFrenchman Jean Tirole of the University of Toulouse won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for devising methods to improve regulation of industries…
Ten problems, or just one?
by“Sir, The next financial apocalypse is imminent. I know this to be true because the House & Home section in FT Weekend is now…
From bravery to prosperity: A six-year plan to make scotland the wealthiest anglosphere region of all
by“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.” –Voltaire In the face of nearly universal warnings from other nations, including England, the…
The crisis of interventionism, the end of globalisation, and the looming tech trade war
by“I say to all those who bet against Greece and against Europe: You lost and Greece won. You lost and Europe won.” –Jean-Claude Juncker,…
Has Fractional-Reserve Banking Really Passed the Market Test?
by[Editor’s note: the following piece was originally published by World Dollar at zerohedge.com] In 2003, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, published…
Is there room for Austrian ideas at the top table?
by[Editor’s note: now that Steve Baker MP is on the Treasury Select Committee, it should be of interest to all Austrianists, and those interested…
Time for change in the London bullion market
by[Editor’s note: The Cobden Centre is happy to republish this commentary by Alasdair Macleod, the original can be found here.] The London bullion market…