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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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Funding the Big Society

12:51 pm, Sun 1st Aug 2010
By Chris Cook David Cameron's 'Big Society' is the greatest opportunity for Labour and the unions in 100 years. Of course, it doesn't seem like that at the moment, as...
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Austerity or prosperity

9:34 am, Tue 29th Jun 2010
Austerity or prosperity By Chris Cook In the aftermath of the G7/G20 meeting the dominant rhetoric is becoming clear. We now know that from Austerity will emerge Prosperity. So the way to increase...
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Unions - the Big Society is you

9:27 am, Tue 25th May 2010
By Chris Cook “Unions set to fight plans for £6bn cuts” was the front page news of the Financial Times yesterday, May 24th, in the aftermath of the well-trailed and...
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Time for a change

10:29 pm, Mon 10th May 2010
By Chris Cook Gordon Brown's fine and statesmanlike announcement has now started the race for the Labour leadership, and David Miliband is in every sense the front-runner. He certainly has...
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Sovereign equity can revolutionise financing of the UK's assets

5:50 pm, Mon 15th Mar 2010
By Chris Cook It was pleasing to see that the editorial in the Financial Times today - which is entitled "Sovereign Equity" - suggests that perhaps financial instruments other than...
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QE or not QE

10:17 pm, Thu 25th Feb 2010
QE or not QE By Chris Cook This letter by Professor Roger Sandilands of Strathclyde University was published on Tuesday in the Financial Times: "Sir, The focus of all three letters by some 80...
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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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