Via Embrace Default! » The Cobden Centre: There is a myth circulating, and I am not sure whether it has its origin in sloppy thinking or devious manipulation. It is this: sovereign default in the euro-area is the biggest threat to the euro’s survival. Really? Why? The euro is a form […]
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Ireland’s Announcement of a Fifth Bailout Demonstrates that Bailouts Cannot Work » The Cobden Centre
Via Ireland’s Announcement of a Fifth Bailout Demonstrates that Bailouts Cannot Work » The Cobden Centre, a superb article by my colleague Gordon Kerr: During Phase 1 taxpayers were assured that economies would recover relatively swiftly and that the need for the bailout was a unique and unforeseeable banking liquidity […]
Read Morefairfueluk.com and the advice of a referee
I am glad to support www.fairfueluk.com in their campaign: The Fair Fuel UK campaign aims to force the Government to abandon the next increase in fuel duty planned for April – this could mean another 5 pence on a litre of fuel (which means a further 23p/gallon). We also want them […]
Read MoreNo more ‘Doctor NO’: Austrians as policy-makers » The Cobden Centre
Via No more ‘Doctor NO’: Austrians as policy-makers » The Cobden Centre, the goal for the reform of political economy: The goal should be to progress towards a rational therapeutics based upon a detailed understanding of the physiology of the patient, not on a rehashed occultism from the mercantilist and under-consumptionist […]
Read MoreThe BBC’s Robert Peston – Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?
My Cobden Centre colleagues Toby Baxendale and Gordon Kerr appear in this documentary by Robert Peston, Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save? It’s not bad at all but it’s vital we shift the focus from bashing bankers, which may be satisfying, but which is a sideshow compared to the flaws in […]
Read MoreQuote of the day – Sean Corrigan on political economy
Truly, in political economy we do not ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ like Newton claimed to do in the hard sciences, but rather we allow each new generation of intellectual pygmies to perpetrate the same old errors over and over again. via Sampson – The Currency under the Act […]
Read MoreThe Cobden Centre Christmas reception » The Cobden Centre
TCC has had a great year and, last Thursday, we held our first Cobden Centre Christmas reception in celebration at the National Liberal Club. Read more and watch the video via The Cobden Centre Christmas reception.
Read MoreHonest Money and the Future of Banking
As reported by The Cobden Centre, on Thursday, Jesús Huerta de Soto gave the 2010 Hayek lecture at the London School of Economics. You can find the text of his speech here and a podcast of his preview interview here. A video will follow in due course. Yesterday, I gave a […]
Read MoreCobden Centre Radio: Steve Baker MP » The Cobden Centre
In our latest 26-minute Cobden Centre Radio show, I interview Steve Baker MP about his Austrian path into the world of politics and how he thinks we can inject financial sanity into the economically diseased global body of Keynesian orthodoxy. Touching upon the Douglas Carswell bill, due for its second […]
Read MoreCobden Centre Radio: Show One, Interview with Dr Tim Evans
The Cobden Centre Radio has launched with an interview with Dr Tim Evans: In the interview, Dr Evans discusses his personal views on how the Cobden Centre came together, its aims and purposes, where he sees its future heading, and how regular readers and listeners can help us with our […]
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