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How bad bank regulation generates illusory profits

Speaker: Gordon Kerr (author of The Law of Opposites), Dr Andy Sloan (States Economist to the States of Guernsey)

Date: Tuesday 13 December 2011

Time: 04:00pm - 05:30pm

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Location: Committee Room 8, House of Commons

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The Cobden Centre's Gordon Kerr is a banking insider and author of The Law of Opposites, which will be published on 13 December by the Adam Smith Institute.

At this event will present an insider's explanation of how banking has degenerated to its present nadir of managerial capitalism. He will cover:

  • Examples of how derivative reporting rules allow both sides of hedging transactions falsely to report up front, substantial profits;
  • How flawed IFRS rules allow RBS and other big banks to operate loss making business models that have already consumed all the bailout funds for no societal benefit;
  • How Basel rules, although deeply flawed, cannot actually function given the present false accounting system;
  • The way to start to fix the system: end the flaws endemic in our culture of rule-making.

Dr Andy Sloan will explain how the Guernsey banking model avoids many of the pitfalls of the UK system.

Please note that as this event is being held in the House of Commons, you will have to arrive early to get through security.

Adam Smith Institute Christmas Party

Speaker: John Redwood MP

Date: Monday 5 December 2011

Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm

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Location: St Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AB

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This event is by invitation only.

POSTPONED: Adam Smith Lecture with Niall Ferguson

Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2011

Time: 06:00pm - 09:00pm

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Location: Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3AZ

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Professor Niall Ferguson will deliver the Annual Adam Smith Lecture. 

"Inflation: Past, Present, and Future".

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

The Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Detlev Schlichter on "Paper Money Collapse"

Speaker: Detlev S. Schlichter

Date: Tuesday 22 November 2011

Time: 06:30pm - 06:30pm

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Location: Church House, Convocation Hall, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BL

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Detlev S. Schlichter will talk about his book "Paper Money Collapse":

All paper money systems in history have ended in failure. Either they collapsed in chaos, or society returned to commodity money before that could happen.

Drawing upon novel new research, Paper Money Collapse conclusively illustrates why paper money systems—those based on an elastic and constantly expanding supply of money as opposed to a system of commodity money of essentially fixed supply—are inherently unstable and why they must lead to economic disintegration.

Paper Money Collapse shows that the present cirsis is the unavoidable result of elastic money; and that the continuous money production to stimulate the economy could lead to a complete collapse of the monetary system.

Detlev Schlichter is a writer and Austrian School economist who has spent nearly twenty years working in international finance, including for Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, and Wester Asset Management.

Drinks provided

ISOS Conference 2011 for sixth formers

Speakers:

  • Dr. Tim Evans, CEO of The Cobden Centre
  • Dr. Steve Davies, Education Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
  • Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked Online (debate)
  • Dr. Mark Pennington, Reader in Political Economy at Queen Mary College, University of London
  • Dr. Madsen Pirie, President of the Adam Smith Institute
  • Elizabeth Truss MP (South West Norfolk)
  • Dr. Jamie Whyte, Head of Research of Oliver Wyman & Company

Date: Tuesday 1 November 2011

Time: 10:00am - 03:00pm

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Location: Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW

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The ASI invites sixth formers to its annual
Independent Seminar on the Open Society.
This year's conference will have as its theme "Market Failures".

Named after the seminal book "The Open Society and its Enemies" by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper, ISOS explores the principles and practicalities of an open, free and tolerant society. ISOS has been an important and well-known Westminster
event for 25 years.

There will be five speakers in the morning; and a debate in the
afternoon on "Markets and Inbalances of Power".

Lunch provided.

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