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6 February 2013
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The British government is right to be examining ways of shielding taxpayers from the costs of bank failure. However, proposals to ring-fence the retail operations of banks, and indeed to give the...
19 December 2012
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At the height of the financial crisis the US government dramatically bailed out the insurer AIG. Last week it sold its last remaining shares in AIG for a tidy profit. Surely this marks the end of a...
28 April 2011
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Only someone with professional training in economics has ever heard of the economic principle now known as Say’s Law of Markets. Indeed it was Keynes’s explicit aim in writing his...
31 January 2011
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Radio 4 has produced a documentary on F. A. Hayek and the Austrian school of economics. The programme, Radical Economics: Yo Hayek!, will be broadcast tonight (31st January) at 8:30. It...
18 October 2010
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One of the most important issues in the ongoing economic controversy is whether the crisis is due to a “failure of capitalism”. What both sides of this argument often overlook, however,...
27 September 2010
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Bank-bashing has become commonplace, as we saw at the Liberal Democrats’ conference last week. But the bank-bashers’ credibility is waning as one of their standard allegations is...
5 August 2010
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The central constraint on economic recovery in the leading economies since mid-2009 has been officialdom’s pressure on banks to raise their capital/asset ratios. Also relevant – but to a...
27 July 2010
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Banker-bashing, hedge-fund bashing, speculator-bashing: one of the legacies of the financial crisis will surely be a hugely negative perception of financial markets. These are now widely...
6 July 2010
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It has become increasingly clear that interventionism played a significant role in precipitating the 2008 financial crisis. The Austrian School is more than capable of providing the...
28 March 2010
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● Philip Booth suggests it is not “morally bankrupt” to oppose a “Robin Hood” tax
● Patrick Basham criticises the Department of Health’s new tobacco...
27 February 2010
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● Philip Booth criticises bishops for supporting counterproductive welfare policies
● David Henderson argues Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg
● Oliver Marc...
15 December 2009
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Peter Clarke was Professor of Modern British History at Cambridge and is the author of one of the leading texts on the Keynesian Revolution. He has now written a biography, Keynes: The Twentieth...
5 October 2009
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The financial crisis has encouraged all sorts of ancient anti-capitalist ideas to re-emerge like long-buried monsters from the swamp in some 1950s horror movie.
The Observer’s Ruth...
7 August 2009
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● Tim Congdon analyses Britain’s public debt crisis
● George Selgin suggests the US economy would be better off without the Federal Reserve
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27 June 2009
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● John Triggs celebrates the 150th anniversary of Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help
● Eustace Davie reviews They Meant Well: Government Project Disasters
● Peter J....
24 June 2009
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The last decade has been marked by a combination of low savings rates and high debt levels in both the USA and Britain. Indeed in 2005, the savings rate in the US reached zero, while 13 million...
12 June 2009
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We could see it coming, couldn’t we? Those gigantic over-leveraged hedge funds were bound to come crashing down, as their massive bets turned sour, forcing them to default on their bank loans...
6 June 2009
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● Kevin Dowd on moral hazard and the financial crisis (pdf)
● David Friedman sets out the problems of cap and trade
● Oliver Hartwich explains why big government is not so smart
● Mark Koyama...
5 June 2009
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The threat of “systemic failure” has been used to justify recent government interventions in the financial sector. Essentially it is a “market-failure” type of argument...
1 June 2009
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In every walk of life there are people who are greedy, selfish and sometimes those who downright cheat. Some MPs stretched their expenses to the limit, some people have cheated on social security...
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