Via The Cobden Centre, Detlev Schlichter, author of Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown writes: On Monday, 16th January, I will be one of four guests on Andrew Marr’s show Start the Week on BBC Radio Four. The programme will start at 9 am. […]
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Hayek’s neglected truths about credit, capital and the trade cycle
Last night, I caught up with Martin Wolf’s November programmes for Radio 4 Analysis, which you can find here. He offered a predictable blend of commentators calling for more money printing, world central banking and greater global governance. It prompted me to look out Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle […]
Read MoreWhat the Chancellor will not be discussing tomorrow: the collapse of paper money
Via the Adam Smith Institute on YouTube, Detlev Schlichter explains the thesis of his recent book, Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown: Amongst other things, Detlev is a Senior Fellow of the Cobden Centre, which I co-founded. I should very much like to […]
Read MoreSomething to look forward to from the BBC on money and banking (perhaps)
In this mad age of yet further taxpayer-backed lending, the BBC’s new series may or may not be something to look forward to: More here.
Read MoreDebate on fuel prices
There has been a tremendous turnout today for the debate on fuel prices, with Rob Halfon leading, supported by Fair Fuel UK. I am delighted so many members are today pressing for lower taxes on behalf of constituents. Fuel taxes are a scandalous cash cow for the Treasury and it […]
Read MoreWhy Is There a Euro Crisis?
From a magnificent article by Philipp Bagus – Why Is There a Euro Crisis? Today’s banks are not free-market institutions. They live in a symbiosis with governments that they are financing. The banks’ survival depends on privileges and government interventions. Such an intervention explains the unusual stock gains. On Wednesday night, an […]
Read MoreThe APPG on Economics, Money and Banking
I am delighted that today I was relected Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Economics, Money and Banking. Mark Garnier MP continues as Vice Chair and Alun Cairns MP has agreed to be Secretary. I founded the Group to provide a forum through which diverse ideas on economics, money and […]
Read MoreSpeaking notes from Positive Money conference yesterday
I opened the Positive Money conference yesterday, explaining the wide range of damaging flaws in our monetary system, how these have emerged and what the range of potential solutions might be. As I have often said, I favour the constitutionalisation of our present fiat money system, followed by the denationalisation […]
Read MoreA speech on the monetary factors affecting jobs and growth
Yesterday, in the debate on jobs and growth, I said: We are in the midst of this jobs and growth crisis, so I feel that we should ask ourselves where jobs and growth came from, where they have gone and where they will come from in future. I went on […]
Read MoreDetlev Schlichter in Parliament today
Via The second crisis of socialism: The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever,” the Governor of the Bank of England said last week when he explained to an increasingly sceptical and weary public the Bank’s decision to print yet more fiat […]
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