Do you ever wonder why banking, more than any other industry, is so prone to instability? Why, nearly ten years … Continue reading “Review: ‘The End of Alchemy’ by Mervyn King”

The IEA’s 2010 monograph Does Britain Need a Financial Regulator? argued, amongst other things, that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) … Continue reading “The FSA should let investors make their own mistakes”

The Australian government recently decided to homogenise tobacco products by forcing them into uniform packaging. A key question is whether … Continue reading “The plain packaging of tobacco products sets a dangerous precedent”

This week’s protests over a proposed rise in university tuition fees demonstrate the long term problem of how reliance on the … Continue reading “Why the student protesters are wrong”