Trump’s proposed reform would make the Fed an arm of the White House. It would be a step in the wrong direction.
Money & Banking
Ludwig Von Mises, The Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle
What should have been a minor economic downturn became the Great Depression because government interventions prevented the market process from working.
Ludwig Von Mises explained why with his Austrian theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.
Central Bank Digital Currencies vs Banking Freedom
By resisting the CBDC tide and instead strengthening our money with a commodity backing (preferably gold), the US would in one fell swoop create the world’s soundest and most stable monetary unit.
Argentina’s Rampant Inflation, Explained in One Chart
Whichever definition one prefers to use — an expansion of the money supply which leads to price increases, or a broad and sustained increase in consumer prices — inflation is caused by the governments and central banks who control the money supply.
Krugman’s Magic Act: On Premium Bonds & The Trillion-Dollar Coin
The trillion-dollar coin is simply FedGov borrowing $1 trillion from us.
Fake Banks and Real Banks
We observe a run on deposits in a commercial bank, then observe that the same thing can happen to other financial institutions, then mistakenly assume these institutions are essentially the same.
Understanding Bank Failures and the Objective Role of the Lender of Last Resort
Since government regulatory practice has gone beyond making loans to illiquid-but-solvent banks, to paying back all the deposits of insolvent banks, the result is that there is no reason for depositors to care about whether their bank is taking excessive risks.
Money Creation, Then And Now
One good way to understand the current monetary system is to gain a basic understanding of banking history.
U.S. Government’s War on Savings
The U.S. government has long been waging war on savings, making it the cause of, rather than the solution to, low savings rates.
Money Creation: Who Cares?
Commercial banks do not lend out other peoples’ money. On the contrary, banks create new money every time they make a loan.
Inflation: Unemployment and Inflation (5 of 5)
In 1936, in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Lord Keynes unfortunately elevated this method--the emergency measures of the period between 1929 and 1933--to a principle, to a fundamental system of policy. And he justified it by saying, in effect:...
Inflation: Labor Unions and Wages (4 of 5)
If inflation is bad and if people realize it, why has it become almost a way of life in all countries? Even some of the richest countries suffer from this disease. The United States today is certainly the richest country in the world, with the highest standard of...
Inflation: John Maynard Keynes vs. The Gold Standard (3 of 5)
The government may think that inflation--as a method of raising funds--is better than taxation, which is always unpopular and difficult. In many rich and great nations, legislators have often discussed, for months and months, the various forms of new taxes that were...
An Unnecessary Evil: How Canada Ended Up Insuring Bank Deposits
If Canada’s relatively “free” banking system was so stable, why did the Canadian government establish the Bank of Canada in 1935? And why did it establish a Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) some three decades later?
Inflation: The Myth of the “Price Level” (2 of 5)
When people talk of a "price level," they have in mind the image of a level of a liquid which goes up or down according to the increase or decrease in its quantity, but which, like a liquid in a tank, always rises evenly. But with prices, there is no such thing as a...
Inflation: An Increase in the Quantity of Money (1 of 5)
If the supply of caviar were as plentiful as the supply of potatoes, the price of caviar--that is, the exchange ratio between caviar and money or caviar and other commodities-would change considerably. In that case, one could obtain caviar at a much smaller...
Monetary Cancel Culture
Whether the bank sanctions hurt Putin or not, they will have far-reaching effects on many innocent people, and not only in Russia. To understand these effects, consider what happens when a bank account is “frozen.”
Money From Nothing, Part 2
Those dollar bills in your pocket came from bank deposits, created out of thin air.
Money From Nothing
How does money come into existence today?
Top 1% of U.S. Earners Hold an Unprecedented Portion of the Wealth
There’s nothing unfair about wealth disparity in a free market, but the economic divide caused by QE is a gross injustice.
Unmasking Inflation, Part 2
Is consumer price inflation transitory or persistent?
Is a Society without Money Possible or Desirable?
Those who advocate a world without money advocate an impossible fantasy where nobody would be incentivized to work and rights would be violated as a matter of course.
Unmasking Inflation
The Fed’s fixation on consumer prices disguises the real inflation rate.
False Profits
Record profits are not the sign of a resilient economy but an inflationary effect of reckless money creation
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