Sound Money
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The US Dollar Vs. Gold
The GFC is falsely named, since it is more accurately described as a global monetary war with the USGovt vigorously defending its franchise in the USDollar for crude oil and trade settlement, and for bank reserves management.
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Addition by Subtraction
It is getting harder and harder justify not getting rid of the Fed. by Julie Borowski This week marks the conclusion of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s four-part lecture series […]
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Digging Up and Digging Down Gold
The Gold Standard is the worst standard, except for all the others. In a recent post at Nada es Gratis (Nothing is Free), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde discusses a visit to the […]
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Class Dismissed
We hear all about the fading middle class, but the fading UPPER class? It seems like the only class doing well is the Political class. by Devin Roundtree It is […]
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Problems Facing Every Monetary System
by Kurt Schuler Readers of George Selgin’s post just below should be aware that there is a an extensive comment section about it, including a few of his own remarks, over […]
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Ron Paul and the Martian Atmosphere Machine
“Bernanke, give these people air!” by John DeFeo Ron Paul has staked his presidential hopes on a few key issues, among the most prominent being monetary policy. The feisty Texas […]
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Vicious Armed Robbery versus Sweet, Sweet Embezzlement
All We Like Sheep A classic by Joseph Sobran fitzgerald griffin foundation Once upon a time, my father bought Time magazine every week, as I do now. He paid 20 cents per […]
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The Euro (Double) Standard
The received wisdom in economic history places much of the blame for the Great Depression squarely on the shoulders of the gold standard. For instance, Berkley economist Barry Eichengreen states, […]
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Are the Fed’s Zero-Interest Rate Policies Too Expensive?
The cost to America’s economy, by destroying savings and price signals, is too great; the power of the Fed must be rolled back, then eliminated.
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What Does it Really Mean to “Peg” Money?
For economics, money seems to be the exception to the rule, the thing that the market cannot provide by itself. Therefore, it is said, the economist and the government must […]
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The Prospects for Sound Money
by Tim Kelly A silver lining of the global economic crisis is that millions of people have been awakened to the importance of sound money to a modern economy. The […]
