Money and Banking
Thomas Paine on Paper Money
"Most of the advocates for tender laws are those who have debts to discharge, and who take refuge in such a law, to violate their contracts and cheat their creditors."
Who Owns Federal Reserve Losses and How Will They Impact Monetary Policy?
The Fed is losing a lot of money. The Fed's stated plan is to monetize these losses and still report a positive capital and surplus position through the use of “creative accounting.”
The Fed Is Winging It: A 75 Basis Point Hike "Seemed like the Right Thing"
When asked to quantify how a 75-point hike is better than a 50-point one, Powell had no answer. And will it work? Powell could only say "we'll know when we get there."
On the Digital Future of Markets and Money
Digitization will undoubtedly bring great improvements and new opportunities for peoples’ lives. But digitization also has a downside.
Roots of Our Current Inflation: A Deeply Flawed Monetary System
It is the fiat monetary system itself, not deflation, that helps create the unstable conditions that lead to financial crises.
If We Ride the Cantillon Wave, We Should Remember That We'll Crash with It Too
The Federal Reserve has created a tsunami of new money, but a tsunami ultimately must crash, and so will the Fed's inflation scheme.
Central Banks: Who Needs Them? No One
Central banks, and especially the Federal Reserve System, continue to churn up inflation and the boom-and-bust cycles—in the name of "stabilizing" the economy.
Central Banks Have Broken the True Savings-Lending Relationship
While the usual characters praise central banks for supposedly bringing economic stability, Dr. Shostak explains that their presence makes things unstable because they break the relationship between saving and lending.