Natwest buys back £1bn in shares from Treasury as government stake drops to 11%
NatWest has purchased £1 billion of its own shares from the UK Treasury, lowering the government’s stake in the FTSE ...
Pressure mounts on Lloyds to release full report on £1bn HBOS fraud scandal
Lloyds Banking Group faces mounting pressure from MPs, business groups, and a staff union to release the full, unredacted findings ...
UK could lose £22bn in exports if Trump imposes 20% tariffs, warn economists
The UK could face a major economic hit if President-elect Donald Trump enacts a 20% blanket tariff on all imports ...
No Matter the Form, Easy Money Is Still a Fraud
Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot ...
Who Killed Liberalism? Remembering the Walter Lippmann-Mises Colloquium
With Europe moving toward conflict in 1938, a number of economists and other intellectuals met in Paris to try to ...
Keynes Was Not Much Better at Investing than He Was at Understanding Economics
John Maynard Keynes is the best-known economist from the 20th Century, that not being a good thing. At least he ...
The Manifestation of Economic Laws Across Societies and Epochs
Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot ...
The Perils of Lawfare
One sign of a fraying society is that its laws increasingly become political tools. The latest round involves Democrats trying ...
Does the Central Bank Determine Interest Rates?
A common belief among economists is that the central bank determines what interest rates should be. But is that accurate? ...
How the Bankers Outfoxed the Politicians
When the bankers called for a central bank in the US, they claimed to only want a way to stop ...
