10 July 2012
Dr Eamonn Butler argues on Radio 4's Today Programme that the JRF's report arguing that a family with two children needs to earn £37,000 a year to be socially acceptable is meaningless. He questions the methodology of using focus groups and dismisses their report as mostly rubbish.
Read more...10 July 2012
Dr Eamonn Butler argues on CNBC Squawkbox that an investigation by the Senior Fraud Office into the Libor Scandal is needed, rather than a parliamentary inquiry, because "we need to find out who is lying".
4 July 2012
Senior ASI fellow Tim Ambler writes in City AM that Barclays will not be the only culprit in the scandal and that the FSA has a lot to answer for.
Read more...3 July 2012
Dominique Lazanski, senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, writes in the Spectator Coffee House blog on why Claire Perry's proposal of a default porn filter for users poses a real threat to our internet freedoms.
Read more...2 July 2012
Dr Eamonn Butler writes on ConservativeHome on why the corruption of our economy and financial system is down to politicians, not bankers.
Read more...29 June 2012
Tim Worstall writes on Telegraph.co.uk on why failed Keynesianism and its misreading of economics is to blame for the financial crisis.
Read more...25 June 2012
Dr Eamonn Butler argues that restricting immigration to protect British workers is not a good idea in City AM.
Read more...22 June 2012
John Allison, former CEO & Chairman of BB&T talks to CNBC following the Ayn Rand Lecture he delivered for the Adam Smith Institute on the financial crisis.
20 June 2012
Dr Elaine Sternberg writes in City AM on her latest report for the Adam Smith Institute. She argues that government are wrong to try to limit executive pay and should focus on maximising shareholder's freedom to govern their own corporations in their own ways.
Read more...19 June 2012
Dr Eamonn Butler writes in The Spectator Coffee House on Osborne's plans to offer £140bn to banks to lend money to firms and households. He argues the cure is the problem. The problem was cheap credit that caused huge malinvestment over many years.
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