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Don’t regulate banking – liberalise it


A stunningly good article by my Cobden Centre colleague Dr Anthony J Evans which is now being picked up in the blogosphere: Barack Obama’s speech on Monday to Wall Street outlines an overhaul of the regulatory regime. On the anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, politicians from both sides of the Atlantic are looking to remodel capitalism. The thirst for greater regulation is strong, united around Gordon Brown’s judgment that “laissez-faire has had its day … the old idea […]

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Material Evidence » The Cobden Centre


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Via Material Evidence » The Cobden Centre, more on the false impression of prosperity created by erroneous monetary and fiscal policy: Without stopping to rehearse the entire thesis (laid out most recently in the last two editions of Tangible Ideas, viz., ‘Lord Timon’s Purse’ – oriented towards money and credit – and ‘Goodbye to All That’– which dealt with their real–side impact), this ‘bullishness’ may have imparted the impression that we have something of a schizophrenic mindset since, in all […]

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Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That » The Cobden Centre


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Via Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That » The Cobden Centre, Sean Corrigan explains the end of an economic era: The sheer violence of this reversal of fortune — something akin to the sudden, mortal swoop of a melted-wax Icarus after long hours of patiently spiralling heavenward on the thermals rising off the Cretan coast — has perplexed everyone from Her Britannic Majesty and her hapless First Minister to the fallen idols of investment practice, like Bill Miller and […]

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A day of reckoning: how to end the banking crisis now » The Cobden Centre


Drawing on the work of Nobel Laureates in economics from three traditions, plus numerous other distinguished scholars, Cobden Centre Chairman, economist and successful entrepreneur Toby Baxendale presents an informal introduction to our proposal for honest money and the benefits consequent on the reform. See also our precis of Irving Fisher’s 100% Money. via A day of reckoning: how to end the banking crisis now » The Cobden Centre.

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Quiet around here? Check out The Cobden Centre


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I have been busy with my colleagues at our new educational charity for honest money: Steve’s posts at The Cobden Centre. See also: What is money? Irving Fisher, 100% Money, 1935 The Problem with GDP The kindness of geniuses Henry John “Harry” Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009) FT.com – “Beware of errors in output gap data” FT.com — “Wall St profits from Fed role”

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Irving Fisher, “100% Money”


Via The Cobden Centre » Honest money, a summary of economist Irving Fisher’s “100% Money”: The 100% proposal is the opposite of radical. What it asks, in principle, is a return from the present extraordinary and ruinous system of lending the same money 8 or 10 times over, to the conservative safety-deposit system of the old goldsmiths, before they began lending out improperly what was entrusted to them for safekeeping. It was this abuse of trust which, after being accepted […]

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The Cobden Centre: for honest money and social progress


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I am delighted to report that I have established The Cobden Centre, an educational charity for honest money and social progress, together with founder Toby Baxendale. You can find out more at our web site. The Cobden Centre provided this site’s previously-published reading list, Rethinking Economics. Over the coming months, The Cobden Centre will provide a number of insight articles drawing on our extensive base of literature and covering, as a beginning, the scope of de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit […]

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