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Chris Cook

Chris Cook is a former market regulator latterly as a Director of the International Petroleum Exchange, and an entrepreneur, market commentator and consultant in the area where internet and markets converge. In recent years he has been working with the Nordic Enterprise Trust to develop new partnership frameworks for "Peer to Peer" investment and credit, which he optimistically believes have the potential to completely change the global economy from the ground up."

Chris Cook

Posted on Apr 23, 2009 at 09:43am

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Cameron's removal of the transfusion of public credit could kill the patient

8:54 pm, Sun 31st Jan 2010
By Chris Cook A recent article in 'Asia Times' by Henry Liu crystallised the almighty misconception at the heart of the conventional monetarist economics which has driven Western economies generally...
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David Cameron's Energy Pools: the devil's in the detail

10:42 am, Wed 16th Dec 2009
David Cameron's Energy Pools: the devil's in the detail By Chris Cook I have a background of almost 25 years in market regulation and development, for six of them a director of a global energy exchange. I have been...
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Water, water, everywhere

12:57 pm, Wed 4th Nov 2009
Water, water, everywhere By Chris Cook At least in the UK we are better placed than the Ancient Mariner. We are also infinitely better placed than the many nations for whom endemic and...
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Rock Pool: re-floating Northern Wreck

5:02 pm, Wed 28th Oct 2009
Rock Pool: re-floating Northern Wreck By Chris Cook The Guardian reports today that: "A tug of war has begun at the top of the government over the future of Northern Rock as senior figures argue...
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Great expectations

9:50 am, Sun 18th Oct 2009
By Chris Cook My first reaction on reading of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace prize, after just nine months in office, was perplexity, as was my second and third. But...
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Forever blowing bubbles...

10:14 am, Wed 14th Oct 2009
Forever blowing bubbles... By Chris Cook Charlie Bean, the Bank of England's deputy governor for monetary policy, made a speech yesterday entitled “Quantitative easing: An interim report”. Now here was me thinking that...
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School Pools

1:36 pm, Sun 4th Oct 2009
By Chris Cook I was most of the way through a post on the abysmal state of football economics generally, and the surreal goings on at my beloved Magpies (that's...
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Gasoline allies or gasoline alleys?

9:17 am, Thu 24th Sep 2009
Gasoline allies or gasoline alleys? The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column I was interested to see that the US is planning to impose sanctions on gasoline supplies into Iran, with a view to applying pressure...
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One year after Lehman: banks and "the prerogative of the harlot"

9:17 am, Wed 16th Sep 2009
One year after Lehman: banks and "the prerogative of the harlot" By Chris Cook When history is written, the collapse of Lehman Brothers will be seen as a moment which defined the collapse of a complete economic paradigm and its accompanying...
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Society is the guarantee

2:18 pm, Thu 10th Sep 2009
The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column The concept of a Guarantee Society is not a new one. The AECM, which was founded in 1992, now links together Guarantee Societies in...
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