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…
Regulation
Now State takes over bankers’ contracts – Telegraph
byVia Now State takes over bankers’ contracts – Telegraph: The new rules, which critics are likely to suggest amount to a State-enforced “incomes policy”…
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 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….
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…
Economic Interventionism, Banks and the Crisis
bySteven Baker presents a precis of de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles pp650-653, setting out an argument which was famously expounded by…
FT.com / Columnists / John Plender – Ditch theory and take away the punchbowl
byVia FT.com / Columnists / John Plender – Ditch theory and take away the punchbowl: There are, by now, a thousand and one ideas…
FT.com / UK – Darling threatens banks over loans
byVia FT.com / UK – Darling threatens banks over loans. Ministers have warned Britain’s banks to increase the supply of affordable loans to businesses…
FT.com – White paper examines how to burst bubbles
byVia FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade – White paper examines how to burst bubbles: Taking away the punchbowl just as the party…
FT.com / Martin Wolf – The cautious approach to fixing banks will not work
byVia FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf – The cautious approach to fixing banks will not work: With one bound the banks are free,…