Via today’s Cobden Centre article, A Free Money Movement, Antoine Clarke predicts the rise of the Free Money Movement called for by Hayek: What we now need is a Free Money Movement comparable to the Free Trade Movement ofthe 19th century, demonstrating not merely the harm caused by acute inflation, […]
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Razeen Sally, “Trade Policy, New Century”
This post originally appeared on cobdencentre.org. Razeen Sally’s Trade Policy, New Century (PDF) succeeds magnificently in explaining the 21st-century case for free trade and, specifically, unilateral trade liberalisation to the interested, non-specialist reader. From the IEA home page of the book: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is failing to deliver […]
Read MoreBrian Micklethwait on Toby Baxendale
Brian Micklethwait on my colleague, Cobden Centre Chairman, Toby Baxendale: …You don’t get from seventy grand in debt at the age of twenty one to running a company that turns over a hundred million quid a year before you are even properly middle aged without having something about you. … […]
Read MoreColloquium on Sound Money
I subscribe to the view that our present economic and financial woes were caused by the government. Via The Cobden Centre, you can see we are working on doing something about it: Through tomorrow and Saturday, ESCP Europe and The Cobden Centre are hosting a Colloquium on Sound Money. The […]
Read MoreHow to avoid future encounters with financial meltdown » The Cobden Centre
My Cobden Centre colleague and Chief Executive of Tyler Capital, James Tyler, explains how we came close to financial collapse and what to do about it: Fractional Reserve Banking (FRB) is an inherently unstable complex system. Each and every bubble and crisis has some kind of link to FRB, going […]
Read MoreHow to destroy the British banking system
Over at The Cobden Centre, my friend and colleague, financial engineer Gordon Kerr, explains how to destroy the British banking system through the use of derivatives which take advantage of the regulatory system, then sets out four measures to solve the problem: Nine years ago I worked as a structuring engineer […]
Read MoreMy Journey to Austrianism via the City » The Cobden Centre
From the article which took the Cobden Centre through 1000 views per day, My Journey to Austrianism via the City, by James Tyler: I make the market in interest rate derivatives: a market born out of the neo classical revolution in finance fostered in Chicago during the 1970s. I am […]
Read MoreRon Paul, End the Fed
US Republican Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul has released End the Fed. Paul explains why we should care about central banks, how we got into the present economic mess and why the Federal Reserve should be abolished. It is a brief and enjoyable read with suggestions for more […]
Read MoreQuite a week for The Cobden Centre
With Dr Tim Evans joining the Cobden Centre as Chief Executive and after the publication of a number of substantial new Insight articles, it has been quite a week for The Cobden Centre. Today, Toby Baxendale has published a refutation of the mechanistic Quantity Theory of Money, the theory on […]
Read MoreCan the Manipulation of Interest Rates Create Wealth? » The Cobden Centre
An article by my Cobden Centre colleague, Toby Baxendale, exploring whether manipulating the interest rate can create real wealth: You often hear politicians and economic commentators say that we must have low interest rates to make sure the price of money is as low as possible to allow people to […]
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