Luke Springthorpe: Osborne is pushing against the financial regulator? Good – he needs to keep it up

By telling individuals what they can and can’t invest in, the Financial Conduct Authority is straying beyond its bounds. It needs restraining.

WATCH: Daniel Hannan – Risk is Good

“In part of the Rockies, warning signs were taken off the mountain roads. Do you know what happened? Accidents went down.”

The great Bitcoin disaster shows that free markets need the support of a social contract

Bitcoin can be seen as a completely free market in which there is no hand-holding by regulators and no government bail-outs

Martin Callanan MEP: Greece’s Prime Minister calls for more of the medicine that’s making his country ill

Also in the Chairman of the ECR Group’s monthly report: banking union, red cards, shale…and helping the honey-makers.

Joe Armitage: Miliband poses as the saviour of consumers – despite creating the problems he seeks to solve

The banking and energy markets were made uncompetitive by the Shadow Chancellor and the Labour leader.

Heresy of the week: Hard work is nothing to celebrate

But what is this ‘hard work’ of which our politicians speak? Do they in fact, just mean ‘work’ – as in an honest day’s work?

David Fagleman and Adam Wildman: Why we need more building societies and mutuals

We need a more diverse and local finance sector – like those on the continent.

Toby Fenwick: A challenge to Miliband’s challenger banks

Labour’s proposals are unworkable – instead, let’s have a concrete plan for the banking sector.

Heresy of the week: The rich and powerful have little to fear from the conventional left

The conventional left want as much redistribution as they can get away with – but this makes them more not less dependent on the wealthy.

Dan Byles MP: The economy is recovering, but who will get the credit?

The Edelman Trust Barometer bears grim news for the Government as well as the Opposition – and for politicians generally.

Lorena Papamanci: How business could regain trust

We need a radical shift in culture – a renaissance of the virtue of firms and enterprises.

Philip Booth: Memo to Ed Miliband – you cannot regulate your way to competition

Besides, does our banking industry really perform badly? Various studies suggest not.

Bitcoin may be mad, but not half so mad as the mainstream economy

Before you dismiss Bitcoin as bonkers, you might like to have a think about how conventional currencies are created and released into the economy.

David Skelton: To make the market work for everyone, we must confront vested interests

We should stand up aggressively for competition and against monopoly, and remedy market failure in housing, banking and the privatised utilities.

Mark Field MP: The nuts and bolts of tackling tax avoidance

Though the Swiss bilateral treaty is bringing in less revenue than HMRC envisaged, it is set to raise much more than was envisaged by its detractors.