IEA Blog

How radical will the new Lord Mandelson be in seeking to reinvigorate the ‘New Labour’ brand? With the regulatory levers … Continue reading “Mandelson should refer NHS monopolies to the Office of Fair Trading”

On 9th October, Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor of The Times, wrote “Banking crises have never been resolved purely by market … Continue reading “The press has managed to ignore the facts, the history and the economics of banking”

The British government unwisely entered the current slowdown with a sizeable budget deficit. Recent bank bailouts are likely to push … Continue reading “The government should ditch Crossrail to help balance the books”

When I originally set out to write my newly published IEA paper, Power Against People: A Christian Critique of the State, … Continue reading “The global financial crisis is not an argument for statism”

In its latest monthly deliberations the IEA Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC) voted by seven votes to two to reduce … Continue reading “Time for a change of direction in monetary policy”

Christians have a duty to be properly informed when they speak out. Catholics specifically call the sin of blundering into the unknown “imprudence”. … Continue reading “Short selling, imprudence and the Archbishop of York”

David Cameron and George Osborne may be shifting on “sharing the proceeds of growth” but they can’t bring themselves to … Continue reading “Taxation is a black hole”

Environmental scares have a long history. At the end of the 18th century, Thomas Malthus predicted that rapid population growth … Continue reading “The hidden cost of environmental scares”

In the introduction to The Revolution – A Manifesto, the Republican enfant terrible Ron Paul describes the limited set of … Continue reading “Statism dominates in the homeland of Hayek and Mises”