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Discussing EU multilateral debt write-offs with Jeremy Vine

by Steve Baker 14 September 2011 in Politics, Business Comments are Disabled

I was grateful to the BBC today for the opportunity to discuss my colleage Dr Anthony J Evans’ work for ESCP Europe on the potential for multi-lateral debt write offs between EU nations. You can find the interview here at about 1 hour 10 minutes and Anthony’s work is here. As I […]

Detlev Schlichter: Forty Years of Paper Money – WSJ.com

by Steve Baker 15 August 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Forty years ago today, Nixon closed the gold window, so that the dollar could not be redeemed. That created the global system of paper monies which is now in so much trouble. At the Wall Street Journal, Detlev Schlichter presents Forty Years of Paper Money: The global paper standard has lasted 40 years […]

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

by Steve Baker 9 August 2011 in Politics, Business Comments are Disabled

Via Journeyman Pictures, I finally got around to watching this documentary from March on the next financial crisis – the one ahead: There’s a path to be walked between denial and despair. It’s a rejection of bailouts, stimulus and easy money, and an embrace of sound economics. Part of that […]

Online Library of Liberty – Freedom and the Law (LF ed.)

by Steve Baker 8 July 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

This weekend, I am speaking on the financial system at a conference in Bulgaria organised by Istituto Bruno Leoni. The tenor of the conference may be indicated by this abstract of Bruno Leoni’s Freedom and the Law: The greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time, contends the author […]

A Bill to expose banks’ false profits, overstated capital and hidden losses

by Steve Baker 16 May 2011 in Politics, Business 2 comments

My Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives) Bill has now been printed, ready for second reading on 10 June. You can obtain the PDF here and track the Bill’s progress here. The press release, including links to background evidence and press coverage, is here. When I introduced my Bill on 15 March, I […]

Coming documentaries

by Steve Baker 10 August 2010 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Via ConservativeHome, we learn that the US Tea Party movement has made a movie: Something else to look forward to in the Autumn is a British feature-length documentary on the continuing financial crisis. I made my contribution a few weeks ago.